Simple Living Week 2: Evaluate Your Time/Commitments

To approach this past week, I decided to write down everything I did, hour by hour, for the week.  After Saturday, I would total up the hours spent on my tasks and evaluate them to see whether they are in line with my values and goals.  Among other things, I found that I spend, on [...]

Simple Living Week 2: Purge Your Stuff

In continuing to simplify my life, I’ve just completed a second step: decluttering my home.  I’ve gone through my whole house, separating everything into four different piles: Keep, Donate, Recycle, and Trash.
I was ruthless when going through my house, and made sure to keep only what I KNEW I would use/wear.  I am very pleased [...]

Simple Living Week 1: Values

For week 1 of the Simple Living process that I’ve undertaken, I am creating a simplicity statement. This involves making a list of what is most important to me, what I value most in life, and what I want to do in my life.  By putting these priorities in writing, I can focus on these [...]

Time to Simplify

For a good long time, I have been annoyed and stressed over clutter.  I don’t like clutter- at work, at home, on my computer, in my head- at all.  Recently, I decided to take some action to reign in the clutter in my life.  After searching for simplifying tooks, I stumbled on this website: http://zenhabits.net/
On [...]

Facebook Friends

I’m not the most popular person on Facebook.  With a more than a couple hundred friends, however, I feel like I’m popular enough.  I get updates on the activities of my gradeschool, high school, college, and beyond buddies with whom I’ve lost touch.  I’ve reconnected with people I hadn’t spoken to in years, some of [...]

Plarn Revisited

Woo Woo!  I finished this bad boy on my birthday (yesterday).  I was super happy to finish it for 2 reasons- 1. I want to take it with me as soon as possible to the farmer’s market, and 2. I want the people on the train to stop giving me the look that says, “She [...]

Bhagavad Gita

I just finished reading the Bhagavad Gita.  Unfortunately, I was left a little disappointed.  What I found in the book was a story that emphasized one lord above all others and a variety of male-centric statements.
I’ve never considered myself feminist, and I’m fully willing to admit that the time period in which the book was [...]

Re-becomeing a (Lazy) Vegetarian

I’ve recently re-become vegetarian.  Let me explain.
When I was about 13, I decided to give up meat for Lent one year.  It could have been seen as a cop out- I mean, Catholics give up meat on Fridays during Lent anyway, but I thought it would be much more difficult than giving up chocolate or [...]

Plarn

I crochet.  I know that, by admitting this one hobby to the world, I have made myself seem like a little old lady, but, I assure you, I’m still in the middle of my quarter-life crisis.
ANYWAY, back to crochet.  I taught myself to crochet in college since I wanted to have a crafty skill.  Sewing [...]

Freestyle Yoga

I was talking to my friend and prior yoga instructor a few weeks ago about the classes I am now taking.  I had mentioned that I felt as thought the instructors had no plan for the class, no sequence developed for the class and that it felt rather choppy.  
At that point, he dropped what, [...]