How I feel about Mondays.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Table Toppers
I recently hosted a small gathering of friends for dinner. Hosting dinner always poses a problem because we don't have an actual dining room table. Due to our inability to chose a table we both like and/or doesn't cost a small fortune. I have a taste for mid-century modern and won't buy knock-offs. Also we use the dining room for drafting and keep a large light table/flat file combo which C made years ago. It works like a charm.
We eat on TV tables every night. Since they aren't that exciting, I quickly spiffed them up with a 11x17 print of a pattern I took from the internet. Part of my being prompt and not over think things.
Here is the result:
I was even complimented on them because they thought they were place mats. I will for sure being doing this again, especially for the holidays.
We eat on TV tables every night. Since they aren't that exciting, I quickly spiffed them up with a 11x17 print of a pattern I took from the internet. Part of my being prompt and not over think things.
Here is the result:
I was even complimented on them because they thought they were place mats. I will for sure being doing this again, especially for the holidays.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Happy New Year!
Welcome to the Year of the Rabbit!
May it bring you much luck and joy.
The year of the Rabbit is supposed to be much tamer than last year, which was the year of the Tiger.
For those of you having little ones this year, here is a link to their zodiac information: rabbit
Monday, January 31, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Monday, January 3, 2011
Word of the Year
For several years, I have read great blogs by wonderful women who all choose a word for the year. It seems like a nice twist on New Year's resolutions, so I thought I would give it a try this year. It was hard to come up with a word for me, but after much thought, I have decided my word is going to be:
prompt
I am usually paralyzed by my perfection issues. So much so that I don't get any project done that I start. Or often times, I don't even start the project for fear that it won't be as perfect as the image in my head. This has plagued me since childhood. My thesis was a nightmare of a time and even though I knew I had to finish it so I could graduate, I still put it off and put it off until I had to spend weeks up late every night to finish. I can't even bare to open up my 300 page thesis these days. And it isn't bad, in fact the writing is surprisingly good, as well as my idea which due to the economy is very relevant these days.
Some of you might be wondering if you are such a perfectionist, you would get everything done and that you can't actually be a perfectionist.You are just lazy. It is hard to explain the anxiety I have from doing almost anything, including work which I could get fired from for sitting there paralyzed, so I figured this year I would work on less analyzing of everything and more of just doing. In December, I was very sick, but functional sick. You know the kind where you are sick, but not so sick you can't just lay there doing nothing. I got so much done because I was too sick to sit and worry about every little thing. It was quite refreshing to not have all the anxiety, although the coughing and mucus was not.
Here's to hoping that working on being prompt helps me out this year.
prompt
I am usually paralyzed by my perfection issues. So much so that I don't get any project done that I start. Or often times, I don't even start the project for fear that it won't be as perfect as the image in my head. This has plagued me since childhood. My thesis was a nightmare of a time and even though I knew I had to finish it so I could graduate, I still put it off and put it off until I had to spend weeks up late every night to finish. I can't even bare to open up my 300 page thesis these days. And it isn't bad, in fact the writing is surprisingly good, as well as my idea which due to the economy is very relevant these days.
Some of you might be wondering if you are such a perfectionist, you would get everything done and that you can't actually be a perfectionist.You are just lazy. It is hard to explain the anxiety I have from doing almost anything, including work which I could get fired from for sitting there paralyzed, so I figured this year I would work on less analyzing of everything and more of just doing. In December, I was very sick, but functional sick. You know the kind where you are sick, but not so sick you can't just lay there doing nothing. I got so much done because I was too sick to sit and worry about every little thing. It was quite refreshing to not have all the anxiety, although the coughing and mucus was not.
Here's to hoping that working on being prompt helps me out this year.
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