It’s taken me a lifetime to acknowledge and accept that I need a lot of “me” time. I love the people in my life, but I don’t want them there all the time. I gain my energy from stillness, from nature, from curling up on my couch and simply petting my cat, from a thousand [...]
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Blooming Mondays: October 11, 2010
Posted by emmajames on October 11, 2010
http://pleasurenotes.com/blooming-mondays-october-11-2010/
Challenges, Challenges
Today is the first day of @binduwiles‘ challenge, 21.5.800, and I am absolutely terrified. I’m feeling completely overwhelmed by life at the moment. My TO DO list is a roving monster of infinite size and, worse yet, it’s a monster with whom I very much want to be friends. The majority of items on it [...]
Posted by emmajames on June 8, 2010
http://pleasurenotes.com/challenges-challenges/
Unsaid
I have nothing to say. I haven’t had anything to say for days, weeks even. Before that, I thought I had things to say, I said them, but they were probably better left unsaid. What does it all matter anyway? It’s just words. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt [...]
Posted by emmajames on April 1, 2010
http://pleasurenotes.com/unsaid/
Patience
I’m visiting my mother. I cannot ask for (nor, bejebus, do I wish to ask for, or have) a better opportunity to practice the virtue of patience. I love my mother, but dear-holy-wild-caught-salmon, does she press my buttons! The woman DOES NOT STOP TALKING. She verbalizes EVERY SINGLE THOUGHT. Literally. “Did I put my make-up [...]
Posted by emmajames on January 6, 2010
http://pleasurenotes.com/patience/
Pleasure Bouquets: Buddies
You would think that I would be used to the difference between the average friendship between men and the average friendship between women – how men have buddies and women have girlfriends, how men spend hours with each other communicating via sweat and grunts while those same hours are spent in non-stop chatter between women, [...]
Posted by emmajames on August 2, 2009
http://pleasurenotes.com/pleasure-bouquets-buddies/
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