{"id":138,"date":"2011-04-15T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=138"},"modified":"2014-06-03T17:35:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T17:35:04","slug":"a-friday-kind-of-randomness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"A Friday kind of randomness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few unrelated notes:<\/p>\n<p>I love ice cream sandwiches. They&#8217;re not included in any diet I&#8217;ve even considered, except on the free day of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourhourbody.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>4-Hour Body<\/i><\/a>, which is actually the one I&#8217;m supposed to be following except that today isn&#8217;t my free day and guess why I felt moved to talk about ice cream sandwiches in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artinthesquare.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Art in the Square<\/a> at Southlake Town Square. It&#8217;s a fine event, but getting to the library this morning for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southlakechamber.com\/Book-Connection.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Book Connection<\/a> was just a little slice of hell. If I had realized, I would have canceled. And while we&#8217;re talking about it, can someone tell me why they scheduled AITS on the same weekend as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mainstreetartsfest.org\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Main Street Arts Festival<\/a>? Was there reasoning behind that or was it just bad timing?<\/p>\n<p>Our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcilvainassociates.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">CPA<\/a> called twice today, with not-great and great news. Not great: our return won&#8217;t be ready to sign until Monday. You know, <i>the very last day it can be filed<\/i>. Rich and I will just plan on making a trip over there first thing to take care of it. The great news: our return still has to go through review, but preliminarily, tentatively, as of this point it looks like we&#8217;re getting a substantial refund. <i>Whew<\/i>! This was our first year of nothing but self-employment income and, therefore, our first year of estimated tax payments. I was only hoping that we wouldn&#8217;t have to pay more than we actually have. So\u2026<i><b>whew!<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0\" target=\"_blank\">Friday<\/a>! (And I can&#8217;t stop hearing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/videos\/10d4ba5372\/friday-lyrics-analyzed-with-rebecca-black\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca Black<\/a> in my head.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a light day of work. Shall I spend the rest of the afternoon\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Working on the guest room closet?<br \/>Working on a plan and goals for the new direction I want to take my business?<br \/>Reading some of the ton-and-a-half of stuff I have stacked up to go through?<br \/>Sewing? (That counts as part of the above closet, since it gets rid of fabric.)<br \/>Working on financial stuff (Quickbooks, balancing statements, etc.)?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try to hold off on knitting, since that only counts as entertainment and, well, it <i><b>is<\/b><\/i> still a weekday.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever else goes on, there&#8217;s going to be laundry in the background. Or tomorrow will be Commando.<\/p>\n<p>And, finally, a quote from the fabulous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crazyauntpurl.com\/archives\/2011\/04\/this_is_how_we.php\" target=\"_blank\">Crazy Aunt Purl<\/a>, who always entertains and often inspires me. She&#8217;s talking about reducing her volume of <b>stuff<\/b>, a subject always pertinent to my situation (and even more so as I&#8217;m facing that guest bedroom closet):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;This is how I am going to do it, not with grand, impulsive decisions made from fear but with decisions made from accurate, honest thinking. Will I need two saws? Two fondue pots? If I need one in an emergency, because Lord knows there are probably both fondue and sawing emergencies in my future, would I be able to procure a replacement in a ten-hour window? If the answer is yes, I will let go of the less enjoyed item. The answer today is yes. DONE.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;Let&#8217;s be clear I&#8217;m not paring down because I feel bereft. I am paring down voluntarily because I don&#8217;t think I can endure another moment of heavy living.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;Holding on and hoarding is my fear-life. Letting go is my hope-life. I am using this time to put the Universe on notice. I am letting go of all the crap and I am opening up to the goodness ahead. Universe, are you listening?&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She also adds:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;Wow, I got a streak of self help in me a mile wide. I&#8217;m like a platitude on CRACK.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m right there with ya, sister.<\/p>\n<p>I hope your weekend is the <b><i>best<\/i><\/b>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few unrelated notes: I love ice cream sandwiches. They&#8217;re not included in any diet I&#8217;ve even considered, except on the free day of the 4-Hour Body, which is actually the one I&#8217;m supposed to be following except that today isn&#8217;t my free day and guess why I felt moved to talk about ice cream [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}