i didn't get tough.

i'm so bad at being tough!

it's embarrassing, really.

xoxo,
claire

okay, tomorrow i get tough on him!

yeesh! msg is wasting so much time on non-productive zone-out activities. he's got a borderline obsessive/compulsive side sometimes, i think ... which i won't entirely complain about since sometimes he gets obsessive or compulsive about stuff i and the other girls like quite a bit. like role-playing games, and listening to cool music, and ... stuff!

but when he gets all obcomp about truly pointless stuff, it's time to rein him in, and lately it's getting to that point.

(with any luck, he'll read this and get all chagrinned and whup himself into shape so i don't have to do it, but i'm ready in case that doesn't happen!)

xoxo,
claire

power vacation! vacation power!

so, anybody who's been following the worthy acres blogfam recently may have wondered why we went radio-silent this past week, and the answer is pretty simple: we were kicking back for vacation.

nothing super-exciting really, but there was this one night where msg and i had a really special soul-level conversation about a bunch of things, and it reminded me of the power our relationship has. 

there's something wonderful about feeling powerful not because you have power over someone, but because the two (or seven) of you empower each other. we're so strong together. and when we take the time to dwell on that, so many worries just fall away, you know?

anyway, now it's back to the old grind!

xoxo,
claire

colors

auburn
gold
aqua
amethyst
lilac
chestnut
pink

emerald
sky
lapis lazuli
violet
hazel
chocolate
jade

our
hairs
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stares

hot damn!

my plan to encourage all the worthy yams to blog has turned out spiffily, if i do say so myself. (which i do, because no one else can blog here, so obviously it's me saying it!)

just have a look over at my blog roll to the left -- everyone has blogged at least once this week, right? some of the girls have more than one blog, or share more than one, so not all the links are showing new posts. but there's at least one from each delightful girlfriend i have ... and nobody even complained (much) about my arm-twisting!

i feel so supportive and encouraging!

xoxo,
claire

oooooh, sneaky!

i just realized that i could totally blog every day this year by just linking to whichever one of my girlfriends is blogging that day. that way my post count would keep skyrocketing with pretty much no effort at all!

will i give in to the temptation???

hmm ...

tied up!

no, not that kind of tied up ... nothing kinky going on here, sorry if i got your hopes up. 

nope, what it is, is, as of this post, i am officially tied for most blog posts i've ever written in a year. and we're barely halfway done with the year!

anyhoo, this means the whole rest of the year, i get to chill with zero stress about whether i'm going to make another record. (not that i usually had much more than 0.01 stress about it, but still.) so i'm going into yam encouragement mode and we'll see if i can get at least one of the other girls around here to blog on any given day.

i'm excited!

xoxo,
claire