iamchesapeake

Link:
Tumbleweed Tiny House Company

In which I discuss the one thing that is keeping you from creating and how to stop it from happening. Enjoy!

Products I like:
Stanford Prismacolor Watercolor Pencils

Recently, I’ve been doing the majority of my writing on paper. And I’ve been doing all of my publishing via voice (my podcast link is up in the navigation bar). I write differently on paper. I love it. It sounds like me and the voices in my head more than anything else I’ve written since I began blogging in 2006. The podcast experiment is a deal I made with myself with the help of my husband. A podcast published each day until the end of January. The plan this year is to have an idea, execute it, and give it some time to see if I like doing it long term. Helps with my, um, fickleness.

I also wiped my iPod touch and put it up for sale (I’m asking $160 for the 3rd generation 32GB) on craigslist. Since I did that, I finished a book I’ve had lingering next to our bed for 18 months. I read the final 300 pages in 2 days after 18 months of just 80 pages. Amazing what a lack of portable technology can do for my productivity.

Yesterday, I started reading the book Wishcraft (it’s free online) and have realized that other than a few tiny things, I really am living the life I’ve envisioned already. Which is pretty awesome.

To keep up with all of the happenings, subscribe to the podcast. I’ll be there for the rest of January.

pain. female pain.

it’s so bizarre to me.

it comes like a fire blazing through my body and stays and grows and ebbs and grows and ebbs and PEAKS and i don’t think I’ll make it through it and I cry and shake my left foot around and breathe as much as I can manage to breathe and then it ebbs and recedes and ebbs and recedes and then suddenly I’m fine. except for the lingering tenderness and complete exhaustion, the pain is gone.

it’s just not there anymore. everything is quiet.

i survived.

this time, I could almost chart it in my head. like I could rate each crest of pain on the number scale. it started at as 5 out of nowhere and up it went. 5 to 5 to 5 to 5 to 6 to 6 to 6 to 6 to 7…10 10 10 10 TEN TEN TEN 9…breathe. 9 9 9 8 8 8 8 7 7 7 7…down to 5 and then it was just gone. much more quickly than the journey from 5 upwards.

exhaustion and tenderness is left. the memory of it will fade, too. i’ll soon forget what the pain felt like, how it arrived. i’ll be surprised once again, taken completely unawares.

each month will be different and yet predictably the same.

i’ll rest. i’ll wait. i’ll be thankful and hyperaware of having a healthy body that can move and sit and stand without pain. and then that will fade, too. i’ll forget what healthy feels like. i’ll take it for granted.

and then it will begin again.

(ps-i’m thinking that the photo above should be your desktop image right now. it’s mine. i shot it manually and i cannot stop soaking up the colors in it.)
(pps-i’ve begun a little podcast experiment for the month of january. click the link in the navigation bar up top to listen/subscribe. enjoy.)

March 2009, San Antonio, TX. Nikon d40.

Springtime has the perfect weather for me.

60-74 degrees, sun, breeze, flowers, etc.

Perfect.

You have a room that you don’t like.

You see blog photos and redesigns and have no idea how to translate them into ideas for your space.

Then there’s the tiny thing of you don’t have thousands of dollars to spend on furniture and new lamps and throws and wood flooring.

In fact, you don’t even have tens of dollars to spend.

That’s where I come into the picture. Send me images of the room in question along with a brief description of what you love about the room, what you hate about the room, and styles/colors you love.

In return? You’ll get an inspiration board (like the one above) along with a one-page, detailed, step-by-step description of what you should change in the room. There will also be some less bossy-sounding suggestions and options for your space.

The bonus? I strive to design around the stuff you already own. Minimal shopping which means minimal money.

The cost for this awesome service? $5. Seriously. I’ll be on Fiverr for the next month doing this. After that? My prices will go up significantly.

My turn around is less than 24 hours almost always. If there will be a delay? I’ll let you know. I under-promise and over deliver as a fantastic treat for you.

Hop on over to Fiverr and show me the money. I’ll show you the design!