Category Archives: organic summer

Spun

By spider | Published: January 7, 2009

I spent a lot of time in the gym in 2008. I’d really begun my gym routine back in May 2007, but fell off pretty hard in the 07-08 winter. I think it was March last year before I got my groove back, and lo and behold, I actually stuck to my guns! I was [...]

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By xtina | Published: December 3, 2008

I hesitate to write about this because I rilly rilly rilly detest it when people write about their gym rattedness, so I’m gonna try to avoid repelling you (the faceless, nameless reader) with too much of my own pomposity on the subject (good luck). Anyhoo, yass, recently I became a born-again gym-loving person. For months [...]

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GTD appears to be working

By spider | Published: September 10, 2007

After a few months of hemming and hawing, I finally got myself on the GTD program last month. Although I had been petering around the fringes of the GTD blogosphere, I only really started to engage in actual GTD behavior thanks to the profound encouragement of (and living proof from) Nancy. One day a while [...]

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No time to waste

By spider | Published: April 30, 2007

I once heard (or read?) somewhere that our metaphor for time (e.g. ‘spending’ time) is a somewhat false analogy, in that time is not something that we spend, for we cannot save it either. In fact, time passes whether we do something or nothing, whether we are moving fast or slow, if we are asleep [...]

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Goals vs Habits

By spider | Published: April 22, 2007

I\’m glad that I posted my goals the other day. Why? Because it was a concrete action – and doing so has a distinct impact that solely self-confessed goal setting cannot match. In this case, it is not because, say, publication compels me to achieve my goals; … no. Rather, doing so has elevated my [...]

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Goal Setting

By spider | Published: April 20, 2007

OK, I did it.. however, please note that this here is a draft version – iow, subject to modification. And now without further ado, for all to see, my goals: Short Term Goals (one or two weeks): P – get up when my alarm goes off P – create monthly budget B – write prioritized [...]

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Holey Goalie

By spider | Published: April 18, 2007

This business of setting goals, and focusing on the big rocks is not something to be taken lightly. It takes focus. Currently, there are two categories of goals that are occupying synapses on my cerebral cortex: Household Necessities Higher Callings Which ones do you think are in the ‘Big Rock’ group? Yes, the Higher Callings. [...]

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Focus, consistency, discipline

By spider | Published: April 16, 2007

For all of my harping last week about the evils of teevee (or tell-lie-vision, as xtina says), one thing I did not focus on is my own role injecting the poison into my brain. Certainly teevee is chock full of junk, but it also can occupy a non-destructive place in the hands of a responsible [...]

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money can buy you a new best friend, but money can’t buy my love

By xtina | Published: April 14, 2007

My bro & co-poster Rick has kicked-off a new phase of life wherein he has decided to eschew tell-lie-vision for a more involved life, more social connections, more experiences. I wholeheartedly support his efforts. Wade and I moved in together in 1998 about one year before we got married. Neither one of us owned a [...]

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You are not alone, nor am I

By spider | Published: April 13, 2007

I had a brief, but most wonderful, conversation with my sister this morning, wherein I learned a little bit about the mischievous side of my wonderful nephew. On our call, my sister mentions to me that it must be harder for me to give up ms. teevee, being single and all. I know what she [...]

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Farewell, old friend

By spider | Published: April 11, 2007

This  whole ‘no more teevee‘ thing is becoming realer and realer by the day: the box in which I will bury — err, ship back my satellite receiver to its legal owners (Dish, Inc.) arrived today. And sometime later this week, I will be physically removing the large black plastic-and-glass cubic companion that his been [...]

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Creating, one of the many joys of Freedom

By spider | Published: April 10, 2007

Aside from my recent spate of posts here at the Mutant mother ship, I have, in the past two days, also embarked on a fresh effort to do some blogging related to my professional pursuits. I have been inspired, encouraged and enabled by some of my esteemed colleagues, my love of blogs in general, my [...]

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