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Things That Are Good, Neither or Really Shitty

Ladies and gentlemen (there are a select few of you, I hope).  This is it.  The introduction of my 

WEEKLY FEATURE.  

Once a week (on Fridays) I am going to be here, dishing the dish, full of links and critiques and my opinions – which Salt'n'Pepa taught me "...are like assholes and everybody's got one." (Side note, if you haven't listened to this this year, you should.)

So, THIS week's roundup:

  • This wall color.  I sweat the bravery, I sweat the color, I do not envy hanging art on it.  Ps. No one looks that good while painting (new thing to live up to.)

  • So since we are already talking about people looking awesome...I want to tell you how stinking awesome I look in this sweater.  Seriously.  I bought it in all three colors.  I am old.  It is official.  But I am happy.  So suck it. 

  • On the SHITTY list.  This terrible article about the grossest stuff you'll ever hear about. Seriously, if you want to quit, just quit.  If you want to smoke, just smoke.  Yuck to chemical poison.

  • If you do care about your body and you are ready for a spring (god, I hope) cleanse. The click here because this is the one you want.  The recipes OMG they make me want to cook!  
  • Loving THIS song.  Rosie Thomas. There is a reason it is on the "Sad Songs Channel" but seriously, major prettiness. 

That is, officially, all that is important in the world today.  Well, except for THIS granola I make weekly to feed my family.  Oh, and THIS calzone.  And THESE pork chops.

Happy Weekend.  I'm out

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March. This Month is for Finishing Things

This the the month that comes RIGHT before new beginnings.  It's like every muscle in your body is ready for that fresh start and you are so coiled and pent up and ready, lusting, ready lusting. 

We are not there yet, folks.  

There are ends to tie up before we unfurl and start those raised beds in the yard.  (I can't stop thinking about buying seeds orstarting them though).

My windows are open sometimes to let the air and the light in.  To start to move the blood around, to begin to stir the winter cobwebs. The earliest signs of spring are emerging all around us (a game my daughter and I play each seasonal shift is to spot these changes).

But, yet, it is not quite time to transition. 

About that unfinished business... What's yours? (Click to Tweet).

So, I hunker down and before spring comes I write a March list. I call it:  "I Still Have To"

I Still Have To:

  • Make one more soup that requires my care, attention and stirring.  That nourishes me deeply, like only soup in winter can.
  • Sit in front of my friend's fireplace and listen to it crackle and have to move away because my skin feels taught with the heat of it.
  • Bring out the shoe polish and the wax to clean and buff my many pairs of brown boots. Taking care.
  • Finish my taxes and write the checks and move the files to the basement. 
  • Sew the batting down on the quilt I began when I was in early labor with my son and it was August.

Only then can I step, wholly, into the transition of spring.  I want to emerge.  But before I move on, there's some completion to be done.

Go, finish what you started before beginning anew.

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