My extrinsically paid work has been pleasantly busy, and my two little moral obligations didn’t set the house on fire over spring break, but neither did they wash a single dish.
Dengue fever aside, I need a nap.
It’s not my imagination that the baby’s crankiness is coming from a place of missing his daddy, and I can’t blame him. He kisses the glass screen 100 times during each daily phone call, and my heart both breaks and mends with each drooly touch.
Spoiler alert: I don’t have a lot of time for Web surfing in my cubiffice. Between taking brain breaks on Twitter and watching Ehren on the daycare babycam, I am actually doing work-related stuff. However, Twitter will compel me to click a link or two, and I do comb through my sidebar, and that exercise is the source of this week’s fellowship.
Do you actually click on the links I share? Don’t answer that. I am an avid checker of my Clicky stats, and I know it’s not a regular habit for you. Why is that? The purpose of linking is to build community. Lord knows I hate hyperlinking while I’m writing posts. It’s tedious and disruptive to the writing process. But if we use these links to grow our support network, it’s worth it. Please start visiting each other and leaving comments. Don’t make me hurt you. [I would never hurt you, I love you. Click out of love]
First up this week: I am ambiguous on the concept of work-friends becoming real friends, but this Work Awesome article makes a very good case on its behalf. The people surrounding my cubiffice in the moment are all genuinely nice people. I’ve seen no steak knives doubling as Q-tips or letter openers. The bayonets, unlike at my previous place of employment, appear to be for decorative purposes only. Work Awesome is making me more open to the idea that sometimes, maybe, perhaps the separation of work friends, blog friends, school friends and friends is unnecessary.
My friend Jane Devin is still finding her America and writing about her experiences. My recent favorite posts are here and here. She has corporate sponsors for her transportation and telecommunication, but she relies on her blog readers for her other expenses such as lodging and food. I know what you’re thinking: by God, I wish GM and Verizon would give me a car and a BlackBerry (ahem, who really wishes for a BlackBerry?) to travel around the country and stuff. Why would somebody donate to her when there are kids starving in Haiti?
Because journeys of the spirit are taken for all of mankind, and they are not free. Become part of Jane’s mission, please. Once you become hopelessly devoted to her, use liberally the PayPal button in the sidebar of her blog.
Okay okay fine: if you must also have Haiti, here she is: Dave Fowler is a blogger in the UK pledging to donate proceeds from his Mona Lisa Million project to victims of the Haiti earthquake. This is a great opportunity to promote your blog, product or service by buying a pixel or two of the Mona Lisa. Some of the proceeds will go to feeding the four kids who sit at Dave’s dinner table and, as a mom who would love to find her financial way back home from her cubiffice, I think that is an equally worthy cause.
Is it Friday, yet? Oh yes yes by God it is.
Share your week-ending goodness in comments…
I will be spending the weekend searching for grants for school!
I’m excited for you and your new adventure!
First, I really LOVE your latest blog design!
Second, thank you for not only including me in your list but for understanding — everything. I don’t beg for donations, but certainly need and appreciate them. I’ve gotten some sideways comments about my sponsorships, and I think some people don’t get that outside of a car and internet access, I pay for everything else, including my personal phone, gas, food, insurance, lodging….all the same expenses everyone has, just ordered up a little differently. Some people have taken offense at my PayPal link…I figure it’s there for people who think it’s worth it, and those that don’t can easily ignore it — but there are those who just want to find fault with everything. And yes, even a few who resent that I have this opportunity, no matter how bare-bones and desolate it sometimes gets. Which really sucks.
I’m grateful for you and others who see this trip for what it is and who support me in the spirit of sisterhood because, hey, if women can’t support other women, we’re really doomed.
Love you, Erica!
It’s so easy to dwell on the negative things people say about us even as we know there is very little truth to it. Having said that, those who have to find fault with what you are doing tend to be those I try to ignore the best I can. You will have all the support you need once we get the word out one traveling sister at a time. I love you, too, Jane.
I started today off w/a piece of carrot cake w/cream cheese frosting; my daughter is a helluva baker. I also clicky-clicked on your links. I admit I don’t always do it…I don’t know what it is exactly that causes me to do it/not do it, at all. Maybe time constraints?
On my way to work I plan to stop at the library to pick up ‘The Happiness Project’ and to hang a few flyers for my SIL’s benefit dinner. This evening I plan to eye-gorge on the tourney.
That’s the skinny.
I noticed you even retweeted Jane’s giveaway! The big bloggers ignore us like we’re in the slow readers group, so we have to support each other. I would kill for a piece of carrot cake right now. My bracket will live or die by Siena then Tennesee. Go them!
I love your artwork! I also love the way you write. “Because journeys of the spirit are taken for all of mankind, and they are not free.”
Of course some people will always see this kind of thing as selfish, but they tend to be locked into a victim mindset. It’s just a shame they have to try to drag everyone down to their level.
Go for it Jane, and forget about the haters.
It was really lovely to get a mention and also the links!
Thank you,
Dave
Dave, thanks for the kind words and the encouragement. Feel free to stick around as long as you like.
Not much planned this weekend for me. Friday, I cooked dinner. Lots and lots of seafood. Stuffed salmon, jumbo shrimp, and scallops. Saturday goal is simply to do something with the family outside the house. That was achieved. Kids had a blast at the park having a picnic and playing on the swings and such.
Sunday I *may* make my way to church. Pastor McBride freaks me out a little because I show up once in a blue moon and his topic is always exactly what’s been on my mind or what I needed to hear.
The wife has the difficult task of dealing with the girls’ hair. Me, I try being two floors below while this goes on. Tends to be a noisy struggle. Plus I want to focus on NCAA or NASCAR.
Sounds like a great weekend, even with the hair fights and clairvoyant pastor.
It is Sunday late morning. Instead of lounging about in yoga pants and eating a large omelet and drinking a bloody Mary, I’m in my classroom tweaking Yearbook pages and trying to figure out what happened to the senior pictures that were emailed in late. In about 40 minutes, I’m driving back home to meet up with the film crew who is currently setting up in my kitchen. I’ve got about 6 hours of acting and prop juggling to do tonight.
Then I’m going to drink a beer and go to bed.
I posted a picture of myself with one of my props – a slimy rainbow trout – and the very large knife with which I hacked it up. It was fun AND stinky. Just like boys. Except more cooperative.
Boys are less cooperative than dead, stinky trout? Who knew?
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