7 Quick Takes: April 16, 2010 (Vol. 37)

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I have been working on an e-book.  I have this feeling that it will never be finished.  I thought I would be able to just whip right through it.  I have now realized that I’m clearly insane.  I think that if I can sit down and write a couple of sections each day, then I can be done in a couple of weeks though.

Have you ever written an e-book or a published book?

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I have booked my first flight in more than 11 years.  I’m pretty nervous about it.  It makes me even more nervous that I have noticed that I have just 35 minutes for a connecting flight (in Chicago’s Midway airport).  I’m praying that this is doable.  I’m not sure if I should try to call the airline and get on a slightly later flight (at the connection point) or if I should just go with it and hope for the best.

I got some mixed reviews on this from my Facebook friends, so I think I’m just going to hope for the best.  (And, I’m going to try to take everything I need as carry on.)

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Out of the five weekdays of this week, we have only managed to do school on three of them.  Mind you, we only counted two days of school then, but I still feel bad.  We have just about 23 days of school left for the year, and I think we’re getting a little antsy.  Of course, I think that seasonal allergies are also kicking our hineys.  (More than 1,000 posts on this blog, and I can’t think that I have ever said hiney before.)

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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again — I think I desperately need some kind of schedule in my life.  I find it so easy to sit to look something up on the computer, for instance, and find that an hour has passed because I went from one link to another.  I just hate that.

Do you have any really wonderful way to combat that? (Short of not getting on the computer at all.)

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Heather from Home Ec 101 recently mentioned a blog that she is following – New Dress a Day.  This is such a fun blog!  I checked it out, and then I couldn’t quit looking at it.  This blogger is going to try to wear something new each day in 2010 and only spend $365.

It’s super fun and creative — go check it out!

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I feel like I have been seriously lacking some creative time lately.  I think that I keep putting things off because I can’t spend hours at a time on a project.  I believe that what I need to do is embrace the idea of doing portions of a project each day. Maybe a mixed media painting can’t be done in a day (with the time I have available), but perhaps I can do one layer of it.

I guess my problem is that I tend to be pretty “all or nothing” sometimes.  Wish me luck to start being a little more creative soon.

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It was like a won the lottery today — I was so excited!  A purse that I haven’t used lately fell off the laundry room shelf, and so I thought, “Hey – I haven’t used this in about two months, I wonder what I left in there.”  That’s always a fun way to find a favorite pen or something like that.  Imagine my shock (as a gal that just doesn’t normally carry any cash) to find that I had an envelope with $35 in cash in it!

We had been trying to use cash for groceries and dining out, and that was some money for dining out that I somehow misplaced.  I thought we had just used all of the money when I didn’t find it, but apparently it was in that purse.  What a fabulous surprise!

(This is officially the post that took me the longest to write.  I worked on it last night and then had to work on it again tonight.  What in the world?  That’s just proof that I need to get my life in order!)

This post is linked to 7 Quick Takes and Weekly Wrap Up.

photos by: airplane – davipt / datebook – Cat Sidh /  paints – lisbokt

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