Tag Archives: simple. please.

Sunday is…

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waking up before your alarm. ten minutes to nine. first stop: kitchen. waffles, with the neighbor. attempted Amish Friendship bread: failure leading to tomato, onion, cheese omelet. one failed waffle. five good ones. bacon. breakfast as a family, four become one. dishes with your boyfriend. a clean kitchen. house alone. breathe in, breathe out. smooth legs, smooth summer sun. strapping your yoga mat to your b a c k. a bike ride. yoga. s t r e t c h i n g. triangle pose. raise your hand if you’re having fun. giggles abound. Brett Dennen and Alex Murdoch. Amoeba music. Five new CDS. Matt Nathanson, times two. Joshua Radin. Carbon Leaf. Lady Antebellum. Love.  b a c k o n y o u r b i k e. home. a quiet house. Barbara Kingslover. finally finishing Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. summer sun still high. peppermint tea. sweatshirts. photos uploaded. PW Challenge ready to be tackled. three more recipes. hours with a friend who can make me giggle when giggling seems a cardinal sin.

life and love, all messy, most of the time.

My sleep cycle…

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So yesterday Liz was telling me about this application called “Sleep Cycle” that tracks your sleep cycle (I know, not obvious or anything) and then wakes you up at the lightest part of your sleep, so you wake up feeling refreshed. It also graphs your sleep pattern, and then shows you when you get up. Downside? You have to leave it plugged in all night, and leave the screen “on” so that it works. Also, if you’re like me and flail, you may or may not through it off your bed in the morning. And, if you sleep with someone else, and they bumble around a lot, they can potentially throw your graph off, as we learned when Jeff and I tested it last night by having him move around. But, I think it’s pretty accurate. Upside? It’ll email you your graph, if you’d like, which yes, I would, thank you very much.

It woke me up this morning at 6:13 am, and even said “Good morning!” on it, which was nice. I ended up ignoring it and sleeping until 6:40 (Corelyn had an appointment this morning, so I didn’t have to get up) but we’ll see how it goes the rest of the week.

From the app:

Went to bed / woke up: 10:16 PM / 6:13 AM
Total time: 7h 56m

Good morning, Tuesday. Coffee?

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This morning, I got up early to help Corelyn get motivated. 6:10 rolled around, and my iPhone started playing Finlay MacDonald (imagine bagpipes at 6:11 am) and I begrudgingly got out of bed. I texted Cor, and proceeded to get the following things done:

– made coffee

-put dishes away

-cleaned the drying rack (does your drying rack ever get just gross? mine does…)

-cleaned dishes from last night’s dinner

-googled how to sanitize my sponge

-sanitized my sponge in the micro (only use of the micro I actually approve of)

-chatted with Corelyn for a few minutes about our evening plans

-wiped down the counters

-prepared/drank an Airborne

-sewed a hole in my sweater (because once I had it on I refused to take it off)

-put a run in my tights (which I then discreetly hid by rotating said run in)

-checked the weather, discovered ran is on its way

-made oatmeal

-packed breakfast/snacks/lunch

-packed gym clothes

-left 15 minutes early, arriving at work early, coffee FOR ONCE in hand.

Maybe I should get up an hour earlier EVERY day…

http://www.finlaymacdonaldband.com/the-band/

Spice up my life.

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Jeff and I, recently, decided we needed a new spice situation. The spice shelf was great, and all, but we needed more space, more spice, more life!

 

And so, I give you, our new spicy kitchen.

 

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Can you guess who showed up as the spices were going up, just in time to save me from all the decision about which spices should go where??

 

 

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I think we were satisfied with our decisions.

Excuse me, I believe I've left my Pandora running…

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I’m not sure when Pandora started enforcing a 40 hour listening limit, but they have. And I’ve reached my limit, which seems obvious because I use it the whole time at work.

I’ll only have to pay $0.99 to keep listening for the rest of the month, but I think I am going to take a break now and listen to the music I’ve added to my computer via iTunes (thank you, HSM and Matt Nathanson) and might listen to some radio online before I pay. It’s not that I don’t love Pandora (I do) or that I don’t understand why they have to charge (and in their ways to conserve listening time mention me almost by name–the person who walks away and forgets to turn Pandora off) because I understand that, too. It’s expensive to give things away for free. I get it.

But there is Public Radio out there, radio stations on the web, and lots of Podcasts I could learn something from. I’ll let you know how my new listening endeavors go.