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Lent 2012: The Failed Experiment

| 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 [...]

Lent 2012: Worst Idea Ever

| 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 [...]

Lent 2012: I take an arrow to the xBox

| 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 [...]

Lent 2010: The Recap

| 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 [...]

Lent 2010: Week 3

| 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 [...]

Lent 2010: Week 2

| March 4, 2010

Well, crap. It turns out that I’m much better suited to giving something up than adding something in. I can handle the “withdrawal” issues of giving up chocolate or internet, or soda (not caffeine mind you, with true withdrawal issues) much easier than forcing myself to spend 30 minutes each day writing. Last week I [...]

Lenten Promise 2010: Week 1 Judgement Day

| February 24, 2010

“It wasn’t my fault,” I’d say to St. Peter if he called me on how well I did this first week. “I was in Vegas for the first few days. I tried, but there was so much–” “Sin?” he’d ask with one eyebrow arched as he jotted a note down with his quill on a [...]

My Lenten Promise: 2010

| February 17, 2010

There are lots of things I could go without for a while. A few weeks ago I realized that I’d let the Internet take hold of me and considered another 40 day purge. This produced a surprising reaction in a few friends who reminded me that at the end of it I was miserable and [...]

and we’re back

| April 13, 2009

did you miss me? i missed you. i come bearing a gift and the promise of more, soon. first off, the gift: my favorite martini to help remind murmur.com that i exist. and now, the promises: assuming sick babies get better soon, there should be new images coming your way via flickr, a blog post [...]