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Default Mar 06, 2022 at 07:53 PM
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Good news - I tested negative (COVID ) today.
More good news - my friend did not get sick - it's been two weeks.
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Default Mar 12, 2022 at 01:14 PM
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My native soil idea didn't work. The soil under my house is pretty junky, not wonderful soil which will nourish native plants. Worth a shot!

My steps:

Declutter living room.
Write/edit
chainsaw - prune tree in the way-back. Water and feed plants that I don't want to see die.
Test soil
send birthday card to grandson

That's enough for now. Kelly (dog) will be visiting for a couple of days and will help with fertilizing the soil. She'll also be making sure that I exercise. And I'll be giving rides to people and visiting my MIL so the next few days will be filled.
Okay, off to work I go. (Hi Ho, Hi Ho.)
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Default Mar 12, 2022 at 06:30 PM
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Hi Steppers, D, you tried. Only know when you give it a chance. Happy you and your friend escaped COVID.

[√} DONE: Wed 3/9 3 - 4:30 Liberating Structures event based in DC.
[√] BEGUN practice with new Bridge Partner! We played on Tuesday.
[] Arrange 3rd of 4 sessions with my Tarot Reading Friend
[√} DONE with the book review. Sent, and payment is process.

Attended the local Jung Society's free Saturday cafe where we sit about and talk Jung stuff. Interesting. Doing this while I work through some personal deep shifts. Announced I likely won't continue after this is worked through with my Tarot buddy.

Soaked some walnuts in salted water then poured the dreg water down the toilet. Didn't guess the shelled nuts would retain the legendary walnut staining superpowers. Now I know and am spending the minutes waiting for a 2-factor confirmation to come through scrubbing away with gloves and professional toilet cleaner. I have my own idea why they're named toilets, because keeping them clean take a lot of toil.

The truth: The term “toilet” itself comes from the French “toilette”, which meant “dressing room”. This “toilette” in turn derived from the French “toile”, meaning “cloth”; specifically, referring to the cloth draped over someone's shoulders while their hair was being groomed.

I see I should clarity that I'm cleaning the bowl inside the toilette, or the toilet bowl.
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Default Mar 15, 2022 at 08:17 PM
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Dealing with some new legal settlement issues that affected my dad, who died in 2000. This is 2022. The incident was in 1993. So much for swift justice and fairness.

One of my cherished goals, finding a bridge partner, seems to be coming to fulfillment. We're about the same level and both eager to improve, and gentle with each other. Not much more to want in a partner.

Otherwise, keeping myself calm and rested as I prep for the upcoming annual condo meeting and my assumption of a leadership place on the board.
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Default Mar 16, 2022 at 04:36 PM
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I completed most of the items on the to-do list.

We have walnut trees up at the lake. I understand your stain problems and I feel your toil and pain.

Some friends of ours are getting married, and Tom and I are going to wetness their wedding. They'll get married at the courthouse. We mulled around the idea of me officiating at a second service (I do not want to be responsible for anything. The courthouse ceremony is the one that has to "take.") I decided that I don't want to do it. I don't want it to be a joke, and I can't imagine doing a ceremony in a meaningful way.

I'm editing and editing and editing. My novel has a lot fewer mistakes in it than do my previous ones. This is mainly due to my new computer which doesn't add and delete things and doesn't have a sticky "k." But it's also due to the fact that I'm a better writer now.

I need a title. I might call it "Earth Songs" but I'm not thrilled with that title.

Happy stepping.
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Default Mar 17, 2022 at 06:37 AM
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I want to ease back on the liquids. What is even a good start? I think it’s to cut back on the water and tea to 160 ml a day and have a zero soda. The drinking has gone too far. My Mom even tells me to drink no more.

My room needs to be clean every day. This goes back to usual times. I really need a clean space again, so I think I made a breakthrough.

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Default Mar 17, 2022 at 11:41 AM
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I mean witnessing not wetnessing
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Default Mar 17, 2022 at 11:47 AM
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Hi, Brego, welcome aboard.
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Default Mar 20, 2022 at 11:33 PM
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Hi Brego, happy you thought to drop in and share a goal. Did you mean 160 ml, which is about 2/3 of a cup, or 1.6 liters, which is closer to about 8 cups?

I'm now the new condo board prez, with 2 surprise partners to go forward. I had to stop over rehearsing possible idea and keep reminding myself I've been dealing with groups since pre-birth. I'd be ready enough if I remembers to breathe. I give myself scores, & I think I'd mark 91% for the effort.

Giving myself 3 days to freewheel then back into the work of it.

Better news is that I have several potential new clients. In the nego stages.

D, I help people with names and titles professionally, meaning I get paid for my time. Generate lots of choices, use a good online word finder, try restrictions (only 2 rhyming words), and keep a pen handy.
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Default Mar 22, 2022 at 01:46 AM
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@Revu2, I actually meant to say 160 fl oz. I’m sorry I didn’t get it correct the first time.

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Default Mar 24, 2022 at 11:52 AM
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Went to a wedding yesterday. Today I have nothing scheduled. Hopefully I won't waste all that good time.
Goals:

Get a frame for a photo I want to hang.
Edit
Go for a walk
Call two friends.
Two chores in the house
Two chores in the garden.
make appointment for taxes.

That may be a bit too ambitious. We'll see how many I get done.

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Default Mar 25, 2022 at 08:06 PM
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I accomplished most of my goals yesterday, and I finished them off today. Yay!
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Default Mar 26, 2022 at 08:59 PM
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These are the goals: To not act provocatively or aggressively, to ease on the caffeine, patience is a virtue, to make my makeup outdo the last I did, and to try to fix my acne.

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Default Mar 27, 2022 at 06:45 PM
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Thanks for sharing!

(another one I sometimes do is smile at them while saying silently ''eat ****''.... these are nasty people...)

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Work call @ 10. Practicing WOOP: Wish Outcome Obstacle Plan as I learned from the Well-being course on Coursera.

Wish - Calm acceptance that I have opinions that through hard thinking few other people will automatically share. Get through my meeting with a level demeanor the whole time.
Outcome - Fist pump! I can do this. dissolve a bit of early training by my father who ridiculed my ideas, that is, laughed at them.
Obstacle - verily, I rename thee "inner obstacle" because that's where the technique takes me. I have fast rising hackles. They probably make me feel bigger than I actually am. I guess as a child facing an adult, they did.
Plan - when I feel my hackles rising, I reassure them internally that I will hold to my points of view. I breathe, I smile, and ask a single probing question after starting, "That's interesting. Mind if I ask ... "
When I do these three simple, doable, steps, I'll make a mark in my score box in my favor.

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Default Mar 29, 2022 at 02:36 AM
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Hi measly steppers, I'm back after a few days of dashing about. 'Cept today—spent 3 hours at a Korean spa (separate gender areas with showers, mild pool, whirl pool, cold pool, dry sauna and steam sauna. Upstairs, 4 warmed rooms and 1 chilled room plus chairs and pads for resting). Ah.

Brego, thanks for the correction. Though 160 oz is about 20 cups a day. Plenty of liquids.

D, delighted you got much done. Actually, days with little planned are a bit of a trap. Be wary.

Fuzzybear, WOOP is actually an app. I learned about it from the Coursera Happiness Course led by Prof. Santos at Yale University. When she first offered it she got the largest enrollment for any class in Yale's history! "The Science of Well-Being, the explosively popular online course from Coursera, is adapted Santos' 2018 Psychology and the Good Life ‚ which became Yale's most popular on-campus class in its 319-year history, eventually requiring the university to pull fellows from other schools to staff it." Source
Am I happier for taking the course? I guess. Happy I finished it. The best parts were her interviews with people in the field. One was with the developer of WOOP.

Oh good, looped back to WOOP, I'm out.

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Default Mar 30, 2022 at 03:53 PM
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Good goals, Brego. I'm clapping for you.
R, you're right - by failing to plan . . . you're planning to fail. Corny, but good advice.
Hi, Fuzzy Bear, good wishes for your goals.

Me - Your goals of calm acceptance and not to act aggressively or proactively are something I aim for as well. They won't be a problem today, as I'm not going to be interacting with anyone for the rest of the day.

And my two steps for today are editing, laundry, and plant the vinca and blue-eyed grass. (three steps. )
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Default Apr 05, 2022 at 05:52 PM
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Accomplished all my steps.

All of a sudden I'm busy. Two on-line classes, two in-person classes which I might have to postpone. Nanowrimo started, and I'm working on that goal - 50,000 words (but it's not all that hard because it's editing work that's already in good shape. Today, I'm getting a shield put in for my catalytic converter. In our neck of the woods stealing catalytic converters is a big business. Tomorrow, I have to get my husband's signature on the taxes and get the forms into H & R. Meanwhile, I have ignored my friends shamefully. Well, that's the to-do list. Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to pick up the car I go.
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Default Apr 07, 2022 at 05:10 PM
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Hi M-Steppers. About once a week now it occurs to me I haven't dropped by. Ms. D, delited you're busy. I'm getting out there much more as well.

Almost too hungry to get out. Partner found a mid-century black actors film festival at the Film Forum. Got excited, laid out a spread sheet, spread the word (lucky for me, only to one person), and noticed when I looked online for tickets at the NWFF that's is the NYFF. 2 letters apart in the ABCs, 2421 miles apart as the airlines fly.

Steps: lots of start up things because I have a new client and a tight schedule. Also, newly elected president of our condo board, so getting systems and such in place.

PLUS, enjoying playing bridge with my new partner. Big open ? mark on this year's goals, and boom, she appeared.

And a long walk planned today because it's 70° F. It's some type of euphoric drug being widely distributed from the sky. Free. Advice of everyone is to soak up as much as you can. R.

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Default Apr 08, 2022 at 08:54 PM
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It's some type of euphoric drug being widely distributed from the sky. Free. Advice of everyone is to soak up as much as you can. R. Laughing emoji, laughing emoji.

It sounds as if you have a lot going R. Good luck.

Me - I've been letting the writing slip because of the classes. I miss my characters. I should be able to get back to them in a couple of days - fingers crossed. Also, I'll start calling my friends and see if I can set up some dates to visit.

One other project - My church is having a plant sale at the end of April, and I have quite a few plants to donate; some are from me, and some are from my friend who moved into assisted living and couldn't take her plants with her, The problem - Anne's plants have bad spider mite. (Little critters that leave webs all over the plants.) To add to that, I have spider mite webs on my deck which is the only good place to keep the plants. As any good Christian would - I've been trying to kill the snot out of the critters. I think some of the plants are critter free, but a couple of really great arrangements of Anne's still have webs on them. I wipe them off; they grow back the next day. I've been using two organic products that are supposed to kill spider mites. And I wiped down the deck with ammonia.

Taxes done! Lots of smiling emojis. Are there really no emojis on this website?

Happy stepping to all.
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