how quickly they forget!

and by "they," i mean, "me." yeesh! people, do you remember back in january when i had the fantastic idea of, if a post topic wasn't coming to me one day, i'd write some on my novel instead?

wow did that not get followed through on!

one chapter!

how did i forget this was my plan?

i may have to call a pow-wow of the whole worthy yam-fam and see about tweaking our turn-taking project where one of us posts every day instead of me always posting every day. some good blogging has definitely come out of it, but i think there are also some posts that have felt like they were typed one-handed by someone with an arm tied behind their back.

i don't mean because they were bad! i've liked every one of them.

i just mean some of them feel like they were a lot more work than they should have been, and this is supposed to be about having fun expressing ourselves, not about producing, producing, producing.

anyway, we'll see how that goes!

xoxo,
claire

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
and
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 ...