Sick Days

Things have been quiet around here lately. That's because, as I do just about every holiday season, I've been battling a pretty nasty cold for the past week. I pretty much spent 5 days in bed working my way through 2 and a half seasons of "The Walking Dead" while feeling like the walking dead.

So, 1 Large bottle of NyQuil, 1/4 Jar of  Lip Medex, most of a bag of Ricola cough drops, 1/2 Box of Kleenex, and 1 package of Biscoff cookies later, I'm back at work, still coughing and crabby, but present (mostly).

A not-so great side effect of my mandatory "vacation" is that my to-do list is about 8 miles long. It's so long that I just keep adding things to my google doc and then immediately closing the file because it's too scary to look at. So if I owe you anything - an email, a hangout, a kidney - you might want to remind me!

Tonight's plans include hacking away at some of the easier things on my to-do list, then settling in with Grace Coddington's newly released biography and a huge cup of tea. And maybe an episode of "The Walking Dead." Do you watch this show? I'm almost caught up (I think I'm on Season 3 Episode 4) and my goodnessssss. It's no "Breaking Bad" but it's still a goodie.

Well, hellooooo there, November

There is so much excitement going on this week! And it's spilling over into next!

First, we're having a Bazaar Bizarre Boston meeting this evening, where we will be discussing the nearly-final preparations for the big day - December 16th!

Then tomorrow is Election Day, as if I have to tell you. Are you sick of being bombarded with robocalls and political ads? I know I am. But I'm really excited to vote! I really love the act of voting.

On Thursday evening I am headed down to NYC to spend the weekend with my dear friend Fay. We are discussing the idea of going out on Friday and rounding up some supplies to donate to the Sandy relief effort, as there are a few locations close to Fay's apartment that are accepting donations.

Then on Friday evening, Fay and I are headed to NJ to see kpop megastars BIGBANG! Dyiinngggggg with excitement! More on this later.

Then Sunday is Miss Sarah's BDay (which I will sadly miss as I will be en route from NYC->BOS), and then Monday is my Mom's BDay!

PHEW! And we haven't even gotten to Thanksgiving, yet. November, you are a nonstop thrill ride of a month.

Speaking of Superstorm Sandy relief efforts - this is the prize duo that Alison (sewmaryann) and I (Margravine) have donated to the Gather Here Raffle:

Again, all of the vital information about the raffle can be found at Gather Here's blog here and here.

I hope whoever wins our contribution will be very excited about their prize! :)

pep talk

I feel like I keep getting all these signals from the universe that are telling me to be quit being so cautious and so lazy. And the universe is correct; this behavior needs to stop. I can't be so worried about risking rejection, failure, embarrassment all the time and letting that be the reason why I keep myself from going after the things I want.

The only problem is that I don't exactly know how. Baby steps, right? One thing leads to another, etc etc. Every time I think about certain goals or wishes of mine, I see all these roadblocks preventing me from accomplishing them, and then the situation just gets too big and too overwhelming and I can't even begin to think of how to go about knocking those roadblocks down.

But seriously, baby steps. Stop being a weenie and do it. No more "What if?"s. Non, je ne regrette rien! Or at least I won't as long as I make an effort.

"do you feel sorry for yourself?"

last weekend i sorted through a ton of binders and folders leftover from fashion school, and i came across this:

i don't know the source, i only vaguely remember that it was given to us in a packet by the best professor i had the fashion department (who only stayed for one short year, sadly).

"You would be amazed at the amount of effort, discipline, and strict routine it took to get her that way."


"To be that way you must


WORK WORK WORK WORK WORK WORK"

those statements are so true. i think that sometimes we get so hung up on envying people who seem to have it all together and opportunities just seem to constantly fall into their lap. but in most of those cases, those people probably worked pretty hard behind the scenes to get where they're at. keeping that in mind makes me want to work harder and harder.