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March 21, 2016 Written by Lisa

Memeage from Sunday Stealing

Currently, I am…

Reading: Random junk online when I should be doing my profiler homework

Writing: here on the blog to avoid doing said profiler homework

Playing: Exploding Kittens on my phone (a game created by dude who does The Oatmeal) and it’s sort of like Uno but with cats.

Watching: PJ sleeping on the puffy chair

Trying: Not to whine about feeling grumpy

Cooking: hahahah yeah, no

Drinking: a small cup of coffee and hoping there’s more for tomorrow morning

Calling: whut? I call 2 people: Duty and my Aunt Connie.  And currently, neither one am I calling.

Pinning: Nothing, at present – last week I did an experiment looking for things that ZINGED me and came up with some interesting pics.

Tweeting: about #Makingamurder and being part of the #Jbutes crowd (you don’t know what any of that is and it’s okay)

Crafting: hahahahahahaahhahah (wouldn’t you be more shocked if I was doing something crafty?

Doing: anything other than what I should be doing

Going: to the gym tomorrow (I am now on week 6 of going 3x a week! WOOOO HOO!)

Loving: when that nebulous switch flips and I can go from not going to the gym once between May 2015 and January 2016 and then out of the blue, start going 3x a week and managing to keep it up. Go me!

Hating: when my brain shuts off and I’ve got stuff to do

Re-discovering: feeling accomplished

Enjoying: having Duty back in the house after his week in Florida

Thinking: How come Exploding Kittens is more enticing than doing profiler work?

Missing: Lauren, who keeps showing up in my dreams

Hoping: I get over my Cheetos fetish soon

Listening: to Fabeku Fatunmise talk about Money Mojo – I’ve known about him for a while but am just now in a place to ‘hear’ him.

Celebrating: my back-to-back wins in Exploding Kittens

Smelling: nothing at present although PJ has been known to spritz her ‘doggie perfume’ now and again

Thanking: my body for helping me relax in the flotation tank

Considering: more time in said flotation tank

Starting: to need more time off-line

Stolen from The Gal

2015 Meme – Sunday Stealing

December 27, 2015 Written by Lisa

1. What did you do in 2015 that you’d never done before? I spent a lot of time in the doctor’s office for various and interesting ailments. Let’s not do that one again, sweet body.

2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? Probably not. I barely even make them anymore because I get all weird and belligerent and stop doing them 2 seconds on. 

3. Did anyone close to you give birth? YES! We had three new babies this year! Two on my side (William and Ryan) and one on Duty’s (Maya). I loves me some babies!

4. Tell us a valuable lesson you learned in 2015? I’ll be writing more about this later but this year, the overarching lessons were: learn to receive (better) and commit to yourself .

5. What was your favorite new TV program? I love Jane the Virgin and blew through Season One on Netflix in record time. Sweet, funny and snarky – all the stuff I love. 

6. What would you like to have in 2016 that you lacked in 2015? Confidence in myself in whatever direction I move Practically Intuitive. I tend to stay ‘too long at the party’ when I find someone I love learning from (and being with) and lose all sense of who I am. 

7. What dates from 2015 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? Hmm, maybe the Illuminate event back in June or the #sekritboyfriend show where I “woo’d” at the wrong time?

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Not offing myself during the great thyroid meltdown of fall 2015. (I kid) 

9. What was your biggest failure? It wasn’t so much a failure as an awareness that I keep trying to leave my business in one way or another and not because I don’t love it (I DO!) but because I’m just scared that I don’t really have what it takes or am fooling myself about what I can/can’t do. IOW, I lost big time confidence in myself. 

10. What was the best thing you bought? I love my new iPhone 6 plus almost more than anything in the world. I can finally see the screen!!!

11. Whose behavior merited celebration? Duty because he’s such a wonderful man and treats me with love and caring every single day (even when he’s being less than stellar, he’s head and shoulders above almost anyone else I know). I don’t know how the Universe conspired to make this work (and it’s not without it’s ‘interesting’ experiences) but it does. I love him so.

12. Whose behavior made you appalled and disgusted? Oh hai, all of you morons in the GOP. You, Donald Trump, most of all and you, his supporters, right behind. Do you seriously have ANY idea of how fucked we will all be? You think it’s bad now? Just you wait, kids. 

13. What song will always remind you of 2015? “Hello from the other side ….” by the one and only Adele.

14. What do you wish you’d done more of? Anything that involved getting my ass off the couch. 

15. What do you wish you’d done less of? Fart around like a big dog. Man, I am an Olympic level farter.

16. What was the best book you read? I do most of my ‘reading’ now via Audible books and so far “The Year of Yes” by Shonda Rhimes has been my favorite. She’s amazingly down-to-earth and real and made this book come alive in the reading of it. Do yourself a favor (KWIZ, this means you!) and check it out.

17. What one thing would have made your year measurably more satisfying?  If I felt that I moved PI forward this year instead of so far back in the fucking closet. This is such a regret I have, I can’t even begin to tell you and yet, it’s just an ‘interesting point of view’ and more choices are always available for me.

Straight Ahead18.  Quote a song lyric that sums up your year. I’m going back to #sekritboyfriend’s song “Straight Ahead” for this one. 

Stolen from The Gal

Back to questions and whatnot

June 3, 2014 Written by Lisa

Because now you are all spoiled with me posting a hundred times a day, right?

Fine. I hear the clamour for more! more! more! of my wit and wisdom from the crowd and so I shall oblige. {/delusions of grandeur}

Allen Allen Allen
What are you an expert on? Is it because of training, lived experience, or both?

Here’s what I have a stellar grasp on:  David Cook (ha! I wish!), Woo, sitting on my ass, writing, sitting on my ass writing, and surfing Facebook.  All hail the Queen.

 Has a teacher ever changed your life? How so?

The one that I remember best is this tiny woman who taught remedial English in college.  What was yours truly doing in remedial English?

Well, yours truly farted around like a big dog  in Advanced Placement English in her freshman semester of college and had to go back and start from the beginning.  Good thing, too, because what I didn’t get from my twelve years of Catholic education, I got from this woman.  She used to stand on a chair and talk to the basketball players as if they were children sometimes. She was an awesome teacher and for the life of me, I can’t remember her name but damned if I can remember my second grade teacher’s name (Miss Mountain).  Weird, eh?

 Are there any household chores you secretly enjoy? Which ones — and why?

I like vacuuming and laundry and I do those both, happily.  Cleaning the kitchen makes me want to kill myself.

 How do you reign in self-critical voices?

I asked myself a while ago if I would say those very same things to Lauren in that same tone of voice I used on myself.  “NEVER!” came my response.  And so, I taught myself to be kinder by asking that question every. single. time I started jumping in my own shit.  It cured me fast.

If you could custom blend a perfume or cologne, what would it include?

I am generally fond of warm, spicy sniffs (like Opium perfume) so it would most likely be that.

 What does FEAR feel like, in your body?

It feels like me running to the bathroom at top speed because everything in my body decides it’s time to evacuate NOW.  Also, I get clammy and jittery.

Do you think you’re currently operating at 100% capacity?

hahahahahahhahahahah   (catches breath) hahahahahahahah

What do you value most: free time, recognition, or money?

Oh, gosh.  It’s not recognition and if you have money, you likely would have a lot of free time, so let’s say money and leave it at that.

General Blatherings

Not so heavy now

May 27, 2014 Written by Lisa

runningI’ve been pouring out the transformation juice big time lately, haven’t I?

So, let’s go back to the 100 questions Alexandra Franzen shared and see what’s what, shall we?

 What’s the best birthday cake you ever ate?

Lauren always made me my favorite birthday cake – devil’s food cake with buttercream icing.  These were always the best because she made all of it from scratch.  With love.  Nothing will ever beat that.

How do you engage with panhandlers on the street?

You’d think I’d react better than being all uncomfortable but I don’t.  I mostly get nervous and avoid them.  Shitty.  I know. (hangs head in shame)

 Do you think LOVE is chemical, intellectual, spiritual — or completely undefinable?

It’s all of the above.  And there’s just no accounting for taste, is there?

 Have you ever dreamed about starting a business? (Or if you’ve already got one — a new business?)

Having my own business was NEVER on my radar – I always assumed I’d work for someone else until I no longer could do that. There are challenges to being self-employed as there are challenges in working for someone else.  For me, it was time for that different challenge, you know?

 Are you afraid of flying in airplanes? (How come?)

NO! I love airplanes!  Taking off always feels to me like I am physically zooming down the runway, going faster and faster until I just become airborne.  It feels like freedom to me.  Now, flying on a commercial plane does NOT feel like freedom to me. I feel penned in and almost like we’re cattle.  Not a fan of that part of it.

What’s your most urgent priority for the rest of the year?

Get my business rocking and rolling BIG TIME! No more playing small, yo! (Also, lose some poundage and whatnot)

 If you could master any instrument on earth, what would it be?

I long to play the piano.

 Have you ever been genuinely afraid for your physical safety?

The last time I was sure I was going to die was biking down Mt. Haleakala in Hawaii.   I was newly married, feeling mighty trim in body and decided that riding a bike down the side of a dormant volcano was a super fun idea.  The beginning of the ride involves a lot of hairpin turns and seeing as how I hadn’t been on a bike (much less one suited for this kind of riding) in oh, about 20 years, this would become my undoing.  I was nervous about it to begin with and Duty (who was riding behind me) could see that I was having some trouble navigating those damn turns.

At one point, I was certain that I was going to veer off the road and get pitched down a huge valley. I actually had this thought: “Well, at least I got married before I died.”  

Still shaking from that close call, I got off my bike and promptly put it in the car that follows the riders and slid in the front seat next to the driver.  I. Was. Done.

Duty finished the ride down with the rest of the group and I followed behind in the car. Because I am a dork and who the hell thought that was a good idea, anyway?

Lordy!

General Blatherings, High Drama

Three posts in three days? What is the world coming to?

May 14, 2014 Written by Lisa

LazyDon’t get yer panties in a wad, yo.  I am doing this in between laundry and packing so that’s pretty much why you’re getting so much snark-a-riffic news.

Onward:

Do you believe in magic? When have you felt it?

Yes, but it’s spiritual magic, not magic for self-gain or whatever.  Energy / magic just is so it’s the intent with which you use it that matters.  I like the “using my powers for good” kind.

Is there something that people consistently ask for your advice on? What is it?

Woo stuff, usually.  And other internet related things like “what’s the best app for (whatever)” or “where can I find (whatever)?  I’m queen of finding shit online.

Have you ever fantasized about changing your first name? To what?

No, not really.  When I was younger, I wanted to be called Chris or Terry because it seemed to me all the cool girls were named that.  Lisa seems to suit me fine, now.

When was the last time you astonished yourself?

Back when I was doing Crossfit.  I couldn’t believe I was able to do some of those things (with an enormous amount of coaxing from my wonderful trainer).  It felt good to do something I never thought I could.

What’s your personal anthem or theme song?

i don’t think I have one, actually.  Favorite song I can feel in my bones? “Ain’t Nobody” by Chaka Khan and Rufus

Do you ever yearn for your life, before Facebook?

No.  As much as I bitch about it, I like Facebook a lot.  I get to see what’s going on in the world, with my friends and it’s a great place to host groups for all my classes.  I love the internet in general and wouldn’t trade it for anything.

What’s your definition of an ideal houseguest?

We meet for breakfast, they go their way, I go mine, maybe dinner and a drink and then back home to separate quarters.  I’m such a monk!

If you had an extra $100 to spend on yourself every week, what would you do?

Massages, baybeeee! I loves me some!

If you could sit down with your 15-year old self, what would you tell him or her?

Be nice to Tina C.  She just wanted to be liked, as you did.  Why be mean? You’ll regret this for a long time.

 What are you BORED of?

ME.  Inside my head. Whining about the same old shit.  I want something new to whine about!

(Who’s playing along? Gal, these are some good questions!!)

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