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No photos and no layouts for these…yet. I feel a couple may be calling for layouts ~Sleep – sometimes more necessary than exercise I try to keep a rein on my desire to crawl back into bed after the males leave for the day. Usually I accomplish this by talking myself into going to the gym with that old adage, you’ll feel better after exercising. And really, 95% of the time I do. But DH has been gone this week and my insomnia has been worse than usual. I think I slept 2 non-consecutive hours Wed night and while I did put on my work out clothes and walked the kids to the bus stop, I came home removed those clothes & put my pjs back on. I was worn out tired. The sort of tired that might just cause me an injury at the gym. Probably I would feel good after working out. But not rested and I really really needed to feel rested. I was back in bed at 7:30. I woke up at 9:30 and thought “get up now, things to do”  then I thought “what? what do I need to do this morning? nothing. there...

I know better. I know I know better because I did this post about it only a month ago. CHECK THE TAKE OUT ORDER BEFORE LEAVING THE RESTUARANT! In my defense, it was my favorite sushi place* and they have NEVER, ever, in 4 years, made a mistake on my order, even when the person on the phone spoke as little English as I speak Japanese (I can count to 5 and say hello, which does not qualify me for a job in Japan taking calls at a hamburger place, but Miko was wonderful on the phone despite it). And this time? It was a native English speaker. I ordered a Spicy Girl roll and got a Spicy Tuna roll. Sure, not as heinous as giving me a green pepper and pineapple pizza when I ordered pepperoni & chicken, and that order was taken by a computer! (I at least like spicy tuna rolls & did not have to make a 45 minute round trip to exchange food) but still. Not what I ordered. Spicy girl rolls have 3 kinds of fish and are wrapped in soybean sheets. Spicy tuna rolls have just tu...

As often happens when I make sweeping statements on the internet like “the kids are sleeping through the night”, suddenly the opposite happens and the kids are up at all hours. Last week I said I was not going to try & scrap my lessons learned. Nor was I going to take photos. Yeah, well, sorta I suppose. I did two layouts, with photos last night,   So just in case that is how it works: I’m going to try to put on 20 pounds in the next two months! I’m going to attempt recklessly spending $1000 before Xmas I want to stay up all night, every night! So there!

I am once again taking shimelle’s Learn Something New Everyday class this month. This is my 3rd year doing it and my first lesson learned was “Lowered Expectations are not Necessarily a Bad Thing” I’m not going to do a layout of a lesson every day. It’s never happened and probably it never will. My priorities and lifestyle do not allow for a layout a day, even if I give myself all of October to complete those layouts. I can just about pull it off for Journal Your Christmas but that is more focused than LSNED. I’m not going to do a photo a day of the lessons I learned. Should the lessons coincide with a photo, great, bonus for me, but I am already 249 days into my 365 Photo project and after 3 years of 365 projects I am perilously close to burnt out on photos (see next lesson) so I am going to be low key on taking even more photos. I am going to journal every lesson. In a notebook. I know. How low tech can you be? It’s not even decorated or doodled in. It’s just the $1 no...