Neglect

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Dear Reader,

I’m guilty of neglect.

I got bogged down trying to figure out the direction to go with the blog and, somewhere in there, got lost. Then just neglected you.

I’m even guilty of neglecting the blogs I was reading to help me improve myself and this blog. I want to try to catch up on them because they really are good reads. We’ll see.

Anyway, as my darling husband pointed out, the reason I started this blog was to try figuring out “more to this life.” I’m not there yet. I don’t have all the answers. Part of me feels like you may look to me for answers so I need to have this persona of knowing them. Sorry. I’m journeying just like you. I have lots of ideas floating around in my head and I’ll do my best to share them. On a regular basis.

-Elizabeth

Twitter Updates for 2010-01-04

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Twitter Updates for 2009-12-30

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Twitter Updates for 2009-12-29

• What's the difference between cleaning & organizing? Nothing really. If you don't like one and do like the other, think of it as the other! #

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Twitter Updates for 2009-12-22

• "I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be." ~Einstein /via @Liturgy (Wow, but that smacked me!) #
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Twitter Updates for 2009-12-20

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Twitter Updates for 2009-12-20

• Church staff / council Christmas party was tons of fun tonight! #

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Twitter Updates for 2009-12-17

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What do I want out of this life and what got me thinking about this anyway?

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Earlier this year, I attended the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People workshop and loved it. There are some parts of it that I’ve incorporated into my life. There are more parts that could use incorporating. I’ve also been doing a lot of reading lately. See the links page for what all I’m reading and why. AND I picked up a book in the library simply because the movie had been out and I had wanted to see it and since I missed it, I figured I’d read the book instead – books tend to be better anyway. It’s Julie & Julia and I had wanted to see it because of the cooking aspect. A lady named Julie decided to challenge herself – cook every recipe in Mastering the Art of French Cooking volume 1 in one year. Lo and behold, there’s a self improvement aspect to it as well.

I keep getting smacked in the face with all this self improvement stuff and, frankly, who doesn’t need some self improvement?  I love my job but am not 100% sold that this is what I want to do forever. I’m not 100% sold on it because there are so many other things I love to do that I don’t have time to do and I want to do.  I miss reading. I want to have time to practice music (I play piano. I have a clarinet but haven’t played in years. I’d love to learn a new instrument). I want to have time to write music. I miss cross-stitching. I want to learn to make jewelry and crochet (or knit – I haven’t decided). I want to dabble in decorative painting. I’m also a food geek – I love cooking! I found tons of quick and easy things so we could actually eat at home together but “quick and easy” gets old when you enjoy playing in the kitchen. That challenged me to figure out a way to cook things that took longer in such a way that we weren’t eating at 9pm each night. There’s a link to a Google search on once-a-month-cooking on my Links page. I already shop from a menu, so this really was a natural next step. But I miss the days when my husband would come home and ask, “What’s for dinner?” and I’d say, “I’m not sure what to call it, but it’s got this, this, and this in it.”

But then I think about what I enjoy about my “regular” job and wonder how I could work that in. By day, I’m a secretary at a university. On nights and weekends, I’m a wife, mom, cook, and church musician. I  also love the clerical bit*. Checking grammar and spelling, crossing t’s and dotting i’s, cursing at MS Word when it auto-corrects or auto-formats something I don’t want auto-corrected or auto-formatted (if I’d wanted it that way, I would’ve done it that way!). I love helping my faculty put together research protocols – any research has to be approved through the Institutional Review Board. In our case, they ensure that human subjects are protected and not put in any unneccesary risk. They’re picky and my faculty (and a few friends) think I’m nuts for loving it.

My hope is that I’ll figure out a way to incorporate my passions into something I’ll discover to be “the” thing I want to be doing.

*Disclaimer: I am also a recovering perfectionist. I used to verbally berate myself if something wasn’t absolutely PERFECT. Never mind all the bits that were great, I’d focus on the teeny bit that wasn’t. I work very hard not to do that anymore. Because of that, you may find errors in here. If I spot ‘em, I’ll correct ‘em. If you point ‘em out to me, I’ll blush and/or giggle and go correct ‘em with no hard feelings. I’m human and happy (mostly).

Twitter Updates for 2009-12-16

• Finally got a picture up. Needed something until I could get a headshot I like. I took this one at a Botanical Garden near me. #

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