in the neighbourhood // 01

in the neighbourhood // 01

Because you can only add so many blogs to your reader, I thought I’d revisit a few favourites today with some posts that I’ve bookmarked for later reading, reminding and responding. These in particular come from the starred folder in my Google Reader [I'm can't give it up yet, still living in denial].

  1. Julie [tractorgirl] promised me her ciabatta recipe and this week she delivered. Can’t wait to try it this weekend.
  2. Love Bri’s [designlovefest] advice on thinking of original ideas
  3. Watching Susannah [ink on my fingers] talk about your finding your way online. “Forget the wisdom.” Such great advice.
  4. Yummm ~ espresso mini muffins with chocolate ganache [tasty kitchen]
  5. Thinking about starting a productivity journal [time management ninja]

PS. You’ll have to excuse my tardiness today, have been investigating the new flickr ~ have you checked it out?

// images from their respective sources

seeds // procrastination

seeds // procrastination

Hands up if you are a procrastinator?

I’ve got items on my to do list that are weeks old, and it’s not that they are unimportant, overly hard or even time-consuming, I’ve just procrastinated on them.

And the thing about those items that are left languishing on lists, they usually aren’t that tough. And I know that. Doesn’t stop me procrastinating on them that little while longer.

While procrastinating on Twitter this morning, (yes, it is only early on a Monday morning but I have already found time to procrastinate), I came across this post by Pip on time management.

Inspired by point two, I’m going to get cracking. I’ve seen a lot around about this method but never really thought it was for me. But now, at this time, it might just be what I need.

I’m going to get write a list and dedicate some of those items to the Pomodoro technique. I’ve grabbed a Chrome extension ~  Tomatoes ~ to use as a timer, which will also track my progress.

[case in point, my Chrome crashed as I attempted to do this, leaving this post half-written, so I left and put on another load of laundry, made a cup of tea, came back, relaunched, then went and did my dad's social media for his new posts, now I'm back]

I need to stay on task to get things done. And not put them off any longer.

Ready to cross off some items on your to do list?!

Let’s do it!

seeds // foolish things

seeds // foolish things

 

If our mate Anatole was alive today, he would probably say “if a foolish thing gets 50 million retweets, it is still a foolish thing”.

 

seeds // get out there

seeds // get out there

 

A simple and timely reminder as we kick off the school holidays in our part of the world today.

A reminder to leave the work behind for a couple of hours.

A reminder to step away from the computer.

A reminder to get out there.

 

 

in the neighbourhood // otherwordly

in the neighbourhood // otherwordly

With the ink that runs through my veins ~ I come from a line of writerly types ~ it’s no surprise that I love words.

Hence my infatuation with this recent addition to my blog list: otherwordly. And yes, I’ve already mentioned it a few times lately.

The name Otherwordly comes from ‘otherworldly’, something strange and lovely. So this blog is about strange and lovely words. Sometimes those are words from other languages that can’t be translated. Sometimes they’re words for feelings we’ve felt but never been able to name. Sometimes they’re just words that sound good.

The somewhat anonymous female blogger behind otherwordly is a creative writing major from California.

Did you know there was a word for the rumble of distant thunder? And how romantic is the word redamancy?

// otherwordly

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