kelly | August 15, 2012
How I get dressed for work Choose an outfit. Search for shoes. Find a pair of shoes that don’t match, but that I want to wear. Try to justify wearing them anyway. Fester and plot while doing hair and makeup. Get dressed. Pick a completely new outfit. Get dressed again.
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Tags: rituals, shoes
kelly | April 8, 2012
Once upon a time, I tried to do NaNoWriMo while in my first trimester of pregnancy. It didn’t work. Neither did this (no, I’m not pregnant). I mean, it worked. It’s Easter Morning, and aside from any minor gaming I’ve done while writing about gamification for work or testing game-y things we’ve built and a [...]
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Tags: lent, video games, writing
kelly | March 4, 2012
Seriously. I spend all week struggling with all the “idle moments” urges to play an app on my phone for 5 minutes. I start twitching at work because of the standard work-related chaos that I usually relieve at the end of the day with a bit of Skyrim (or those idle moments with apps). It [...]
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Tags: frustration, gaming, lent, video games
kelly | February 23, 2012
It’s that time of year again. You can keep your New Year Resolutions. Nobody ever expects to keep them. I’ll take Lent any day. what better time to battle a vice than when “everyone” is suffering through their own challenges alongside you and everyone expects to win? This year I’m taking the bold step of [...]
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Tags: comics, gaming, lent, self improvement, writing
kelly | March 24, 2011
Spending time in train stations and crowded convention halls last weekend, I’ve seen the “hive mind” of what’s left of our animal instinct kick in. One person gets up without provocation to stand in line. Then 3, then virtually everyone. Those who stay behind start to panic that they’ve missed something. Masses of people can [...]
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Tags: end times, hive mind, panic, revelation, tl4t, to long for twitter
kelly | January 4, 2011
2010 is officially over now. I’ve been meaning to talk to you about it for months, but life got in the way. It’ll be a bit more concise now. Lucky you. If the second half of 2010 had a theme, it was Challenge is the New Black. A couple of months ago something snapped and [...]
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Tags: 2011, change, family, food, frustration, goals, journeys, list, reflection, work
kelly | July 11, 2010
I’ve learned a lot since waking up Saturday morning in excruciating abdominal pain.
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Tags: breastfeeding, emergency room, gallbladder, pain
kelly | April 12, 2010
Considering I didn’t even muster the weekly checkup posts past week 3, it should come as no surprise that I’ve failed, at least in the traditional sense, to give up “not writing” for Lent. When you get right down to it, I wrote probably half the days, maybe less, and the closer it got to [...]
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Tags: easter, lent, murmur, organization, process
kelly | March 15, 2010
In the middle of the night Saturday night/Sunday morning there was a very loud boom outside. And then nothing. It was odd. Usually if there’s a crash of some sort, there are residual sounds. People yelling, debris falling, trucks backing up from whatever they crashed into, etc etc. I don’t want to give the impression [...]
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Tags: bada big booms, breakin, crime rate, frustration, reflection
kelly | March 11, 2010
So…yeah. Last week was a doozy. I’m tired of making excuses and all, but man. it sucked. I thought I was going to have all these opportunities to write and get caught up, but as the week went by (and I fell and I recovered and I felt better and I took a glucose test [...]
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Tags: frustration, lent, updates, writing