Great walleye and scallop dinner with The Fam this evening. I even helped cook. Norm and I were feeling the mojo this week so we got another LLTAM session in as well.
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Gratitude – 1/4/2012
While I am not always grateful for the tedium that grocery shopping involves, I am certainly grateful for access to quality food and the wherewithal, financial and otherwise, to be able to “harvest” it (I can stalk celery like nobody’s business).
Another productive LLTAM recording session with Norm tonight and and even more productive counseling session with him afterwards (he was the counselor). Indeed, a large part of our weekly sessions is about quality interaction time, the music is an awesome bonus!
Gratitude – 1/3/2012
I am grateful to now have a working kitchen sink! Washer and dryer temporarily hooked up as well. Still need to move the permanent hookups for their final location. Also got a brief, surprise visit from good friend tonight, was great to catch up.
Gratitude – 1/2/2012
- Slept in.
- Breakfast and good conversation with Norm, Laurel, Mark, and all the kids.
- Got a few projects knocked out at the house.
Gratitude – 1/1/2012
- Last day of relaxation at Sundara.
- Great lunch at The Cheese Factory – had a delicious chickpea stew wrap. Very eclectic vegetarian restaurant that I’d definitely go back to.
- Enjoyed catching up with Mark and his boys.
- Watched the last regular season Packer game with the Fam.
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Gratitude – 12/31/2011
- Got to sleep in.
- Went for a pleasant walk around the Dells.
- Productive relationship conversation that showed me how far I’ve come, and how far I still need to go.
- Had my first ever room service dinner (meh, perhaps my expectations were a bit too high)
- Best massage of my life (thus far).
Gratitude – 12/29/2011
- Officially handed back the keys and checked out of my apartment. Grateful to be out of that situation – another transition complete!
- Came across a great article today, Stumptown Girl, in the New Yorker. About an indie-rock star (Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney fame) that satirizes hipster culture, on “Portlandia.” My favorite Portlanders turned me on to the series on my last vist to Oregon. Recalled my friends and my last visit fondly. Ah, Portland…
- Had fun making dinner with Norm and the GDFB’s.
- Significant milestone in our current studio project. Norm and I completed primary blocking and arranging on Iron (working title). The track isn’t nearly done, but it actually sounds like a song. Looking forward to folding in lyrics.
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Gratitude – 12/28/2011
I am still grateful. Lot’s has happened in the last few (well, five, actually) months; nearly all of it productive. I intend to address/reflect upon many of the more important of those things in the coming weeks/months. Intention however, doesn’t always put the figurative pen to paper, does it? 😉
Today, I am grateful for:
Gratitude – 7/28/2011
As in any organization, the place I work has its own set of what I would term “significant executive-level dysfunction”. The longer you’ve been someplace the more it seems you get pummeled into submission to accept things “just as they are” or because “that’s the way we’ve always done it” – in essence, to ignore the dysfunction. This has become a benchmark for me to know whether or not I want to be somewhere or in a certain situation, whether it’s a job or a relationship.
I am grateful to have the tact and confidence to ask questions of some of these executives addressing some of the dysfunction and believe it is a good sign that I am still actually noticing the dysfunction. 🙂