how am i this busy?

[liminal_space]

+ i've had a fair number of jobs in my life, as well as a few "careers" (network admin, tech writer/web designer, area analyst for a nonprofit, and teacher). out of all of them, teacher has been the most stressful, busy, challenging, time consuming, and crazy-making  out of the bunch. 

thus, i know busy. 

(for reals)

anyway, here i am living my best edwardian lady of leisure life and you'd think i'd be in a fugue of lollygagging. but noooo. busy busy busy. just a different TYPE of busy: this one is less performative, less structured, less soulless. 

+ i've been looking through some of my old lesson plans and found one on characterization. i distinctly remember teaching this lesson to a group of very low-level readers/writers and what prompted the lesson. while most of what we wrote was not fiction, there WERE times we did focus on creativity and the invention of worlds and people. the least skilled and least read writers will describe their characters without...describing them. 

characters, for their own writing, have descriptors like this:

"she looked like beyoncé." or "he looked just like drake." 

there are some notes i made at the end of my lesson plan about how things went and apparently, they went really well! i had some samples of how some of the students improved and, by golly, they actually DESCRIBED their characters! bless them! 

[there was another wonderful lesson that addressed mixed metaphors and bad analogies — which i always hated to teach because i absolutely loved what the students came up with in those departments.] 

i do miss teaching sometimes. ;)

+ weather has contrived against us AGAIN, and now misty's arrival date is set for this wednesday. we're going to have some snow before then, some warm, some really cold, so who the hell knows what conditions will be like? all i know is i'm ready for her to get here and get settled so we can go riding. i'm ready ready ready. :) [and seriously, you all are going to have to get even better about skimming me, because lort knows there will be loonnnnng posts about her when she gets here. 

my grooming kit has been misplaced and/or cannibalized by the kid, so i'm building a new one. i'm finding it slightly humorous that beauty equipment and products for horses cost more than beauty equipment and products ever cost for me. :) 

look at this beauty:

the haas diva girly girl brush. for mares that know quality. or something.

thirty-two dollars for that thing. lol (no, i did not get it. yet. but i probably won't. most likely. maybe i'll save it for a special reward or something.)

it's ridiculous is what it is. =D

+ i am 12 lbs away from my very big and awesome wl goal i set myself in january of last year. i'm SUPER excited, because the second i hit it, i am making a spa day appointment. pedicure! manicure! facial! massage! i'm going to just luxuriate in achievement! the one thing i'm not going to do — which is going to sting a little — is not reward myself with food. 

=\ feh.

i don't think i'll be able to make it by end of february, but who knows? ok, i do. it's not going to happen: my metabolism has shifted to adjust to what IT believes is a deficit in calories. while i'm starting to lose again, it's just slower than it was in the beginning. 

fat camp doctor, aka dr. sexy, suggested some ways to trick my body into thinking i'm not trying to starve it, so i'm going to give that a go over the next few weeks. i honestly think that as the weather gets better and i'm outside doing more STUFF, the problem will solve itself. 

i'm just so proud of myself right now i could squee. srsly. 

+ what else, what else? oh, i have had two HORRIBLE sourdough failures. HORRIBLE. 

yep. i did.

i know it has something to do with my starter/levain, so i'm having to regroup and rethink things. i'll get there. *nod* but to make myself feel better, i made a normal loaf of delight. :) i may not eat very much of it, but it is totally worth the calories. 

Comments

[honor-reid.livejournal.com]

I love the reward you set for yourself. That's awesome.

Oh no I'm sorry about your sourdoughs that's rough. I hate it when you get all the way through a recipe and it doesn't work out. I'm glad your next loaf was better. My teen and I made Naan the other day it was actually really good.

[liminal-space.livejournal.com]

oooh, i love naan!

and yeah — it does suck when you do everything by the book and get horrible results. i wanted to throw that dough out in the woods, but was afraid wildlife would eat it and die or something. lol

[kazzy-cee.livejournal.com]

It's great looking over old paperwork and thinking about it sometimes. I found my old teaching qualification folder and read some of the submissions I had to make. They were good! Very articulate - I impressed myself LOL!

[liminal-space.livejournal.com]

right!!!!???? i few years ago i found writing that had been typed up in one of my school folders (from college days). it was really good! i was thinking it was from a fellow student and then realized it was MINE. i was all, "dang, girl! nice work!" lol

[melanieallett.livejournal.com]

Hi i noticed we have a lot of friends in common so Ive added you as a friend x

[liminal-space.livejournal.com]

added back!