Barbara's Babbling

1. New shoes! I've been wanting these funny five-finger barefoot-style shoes for a while, but haven't been near where they've been sold. Well, I got them, they are already doing exactly what I wanted: helping me get strength back in my feet. Happy feet!
2. Tea! Found a high quality tea shop around the corner from my hotel. senecha
3. Good conversation on plane.
4. Friends who let me stay at their house in KC, getting me 45 minutes extra sleep. And, um, making me notice that my alarm set time was WRONG. I would have been late.

1. Thing 1 is now mature enough that if I ask her if she is behaving well (when she isn't), she says, "Oh, sorry." and then fixes the behavior.
2. Thing 2 in an evening gown, ha!
3. My weight loss was not a dip, but sustained. My clothes are fitting a little differently now. (Current: 165. Goal: 150)

1. Extra time to work, and pulling enough out of the mild depression to do something useful with it.
2. A Sunday afternoon in New York. (what should I do with it?)
3. Tea, bagel chips, hummus, and raw snow peas for dinner.

1. I get to see my sweetie tonight!
2. Apple cider vinegar.
3. Target gift cards and "get my grandchildren some new clothes"
4. Major client launching 1 week from today.

At the office, I just finished my tea disk. I've been working on it for a couple years.

an example tea disk

Now I'll bring in some more tea from home. Maybe put together a tea service (Chinese style) at my desk.

I have the strange experience of having a "girly girl" as a child. This is stretching my experience a bit; I don't know anything about girly girls.

What I don't want is for my girly girl to be a Barbie-Math-is-Hard girly girl. I don't want her to be ineffectual. That's a swear word to me.

So, girly girl models for my kids. So far, we have pictures of

• Patty Wagstaff, aerobatic pilot photos


• Marissa Mayer, VP of Search at Google a trip to the ballet


• Rodeo queens, unspecified. an example

The kids are fighting over Marissa right now, who is in the Saturday box. Marissa has been working on Google user experience for years.

In search serendipity, I can now learn how to become a rodeo queen

1. Analyst call. We're going to be profiled in a major analyst's report.
2. Down to 1 late task.
3. Got the "call AT&T to fix connection" task done. Now I can disparage them with a clear conscience.

And since this didn't post yesterday, more for today.
1. Getting headache under control.
2. Collaboration & strategic thinking.
3. 20 to-read pages off my list!

Couldn't decide which tea to make.

Made both.

1. Getting paid.
2. Delegating.
3. Kids.

1. Festival was fun.
2. I am NOT imposing my introvert ways on my extravert child.
3. Gave the child a budget of $5, and it included the cost of a treat at the festival. "I want, I want, I want" turned into "Oh, let's keep looking; that won't let me have a treat later." She didn't want to blow her $5 in one place.

Me and Julia Down by the Schoolyard.

I just diagnosed and solved a DNS problem on the office manager's computer. (she couldn't visit bit.ly on either of her browsers; now she can)

1. Tea! GR has been asking for blueberry tea a lot recently (don't know why); found it last night.
2. Tea! Picked up milk thistle tea; liked it. Drank a second cup.
3. Day 3 of workout. Thought I got up too late for it, but I didn't.
4. Stress slowly reducing.

1. Doing Google Images search for "don't panic". But, since J needed a Panic button or image, searched for "panic." Then "panic button." Did you know that all panic buttons are red?
2. Able to support my sweetie.
3. Day 2 of Get Up Early and Exercise program, to continue indefinitely. I worked out before my workout!
4. My first workout got enough neck stuff realigned that my second one didn't have to focus on my neck.
5. And I discovered new muscles Friday.

A nice breakfast with kids.
Summer teenage guest starting to settle in.
J deciding that it doesn't hurt too much, and they are all in KC. I get a day alone.

1. Wrestling with kids, giggling. They've actually gotten to the point that they have a goal: pin the shoulders. This makes it far more fun for me.
2. The energy and lack of migraine to do the above.
3. Migraine pretty much gone.
4. Learning more about migraines (like, why am I having more), and coming up with A Theory. That I can act on.
5. Defining exit strategy for my Lyme antibiotic supplement. (Must drop each Lyme symptom supplement, for at least two months, with no change in symptoms)

Actually, that may be enough said. Oh ... kids being silly.

1. Glutenous rice sesame balls. All to myself! (or mostly)
2. Kid bowling ... KT got a strike.
3. Mama mama mama!
4. Lower stress, some anyhow.

A pizza with the radius z and thickness a has the volume pi*z*z*a

1. Lots of friends announcing good things! Job-related, even!
2. Two proposals, done. Probability of landing at least one is better than 90%.
3. I get to invoice a large-ish amount to a client who pays quickly!
4. Oh dear. Another lead. Gotta go take care of that.