Twice a day for worries.....

5 things:

1.  Devote 15 minutes twice a day (morning and evening?) to your WORRIES.*

2.  Write them down--or just the one that's giving you the biggest fits.

3.  Include any ideas or suggestions for dealing with whatever's driving you nuts.

4.  When the time's up, stop worrying and think of something pleasant.

5.  If a worry pops up, you can consider it during the next worry period, but not right then.

*Found this online, thanks be to the source.  I googled for the source today and found half a dozen sites that mention this.  Dunno who started it, but it's spread all over.  Brain Injury Blog has it in a lovely post on overcoming "compassion fatigue," but that's not where I saw it yesterday......

The Iron Cage of Expectations

5 things:

1.  Own a car

2.  Have a lot of money

3.  Be tastefully dressed

4.  Belong to a church

5.  Get married to a member of the opposite sex

Huckleberry Friends *6 things today....

6 things:

1.  SHS:  Jane, Jim, Judy, Marilyn, Mary K.Z., Mary E. O'B. 

2.  IA: Debbie, Erda & Kay; Ann, Jane, Jesse, Lisa, Tracy

3.  FNM:  Andrea, Craig, Marilyn

4.  NYC:  Mary Lou, Nan

5.  DC:  Cathy, Cynthia, Juliana, Linda, Mary K., Mary T., Peggy

6.  RIP:  Father Durkin, Dad, Murray, Mom, Sarah, Helen, Trudy, Julia, John, Dorothy, Gemma, Carmel, Bob DeJ., Martha, Connie, Gene, Bob

Feelings Vs. Thoughts

5 things:

1.  Ask someone how s/he feels, and you get a verbal thought.

2.  Try to talk your way out of that.

3.  Can you feel your heart beat?

4.  Can you feel your pulse?

5.  I'm reading Martha Beck's Finding Your Way in a Wild New World

Dining Out...and In

5 things:

1.  Finally I've finished the yellow squash!  Jaysus.  Makes a pretty substantial breakfast, but ta ta....

2.  Strawberries.  I have finally learned how to eat these:  with whipped cream.  Also good for breakfast.

3.  Crow.  Steady diet thereof, over the years.

4.  Poppy seeds scattered on a reading table at the public library yesterday.  I didn't eat them, but....

5.  Read that cooked blueberries are more nutritious than raw.  A blueberry pie at WF was $16!  WTF

Questionz for today...

5 things:

1.  Where did my old blog pictures go?  

2.  What's to stop me from moving back to the state of my birth and running for senator?

3.  Other than megabuckets of money, that is....

4.  Are they rerunning weather reports here?

5.  How do you tell a short person not to put shoes on top of the refrigerator?

TGIF!! Household things I want/need to buy

5 things:

1.  Some of those great big square ice cube molds so I can make gin & tonics like the Jose Andres' special at Jaleo.  Great big m-fs.  i already have the gin and the juniper berries, and i can lay in a supply of tonic water and shave lemon peel with the best....

2.  two round cake pans so I can make a round cake of two layers.

3.  Do I NEED a two-layer cake in any shape?

4.  No, but I'd like one.

5.  Liquid laundry detergent from WF in BASIL scent.  The powdered stuff is shite.