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Moon Eclipse tomorrow! (the Americas, Europe, Africa, and western Asia will be able to see it)


And, a meme from multiple people:

Look around you right now and name 3 things you can see in the room you're in that make you smile/happy, even if it is just the tiniest little bit!

1) Peter Mayer, _Earth Town Square_ CD
2) Things on my wall (_Hug O' War_ by Shel Silverstein, a picture of a cat flopped on top of a ladder, and a 'free as in water' water bottle label from water I snagged while at the Raleigh office)
3) _Spiritual Moments: Daily Thoughts That Inspire_ 2004 Calendar, which I'm being good about and *not* peaking at early


And, I would like to announce that biting my tongue is *not* a fun experience! Ow...


Not going into work yesterday was a wise choice. Such an unpleasant day, healthwise, it was. Blah. But, I was able to get up this morning at a reasonable time, which has not been true all week. Even if I *did* have amazing trouble getting to sleep.

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Moon Eclipse tomorrow! (the Americas, Europe, Africa, and western Asia will be able to see it)


And, a meme from multiple people:

Look around you right now and name 3 things you can see in the room you're in that make you smile/happy, even if it is just the tiniest little bit!

1) Peter Mayer, _Earth Town Square_ CD
2) Things on my wall (_Hug O' War_ by Shel Silverstein, a picture of a cat flopped on top of a ladder, and a 'free as in water' water bottle label from water I snagged while at the Raleigh office)
3) _Spiritual Moments: Daily Thoughts That Inspire_ 2004 Calendar, which I'm being good about and *not* peaking at early


And, I would like to announce that biting my tongue is *not* a fun experience! Ow...


Not going into work yesterday was a wise choice. Such an unpleasant day, healthwise, it was. Blah. But, I was able to get up this morning at a reasonable time, which has not been true all week. Even if I *did* have amazing trouble getting to sleep.

Clothing, mostly

There's something moderately surreal about getting bunches of compliments (not all at the same time or from the same people) on the winter coat I've been wearing.

I don't think of myself as one with a good sense of what looks good on me, although I've been attempting to develop one. And it hasn't been until the past couple years that I started buying clothing based on my liking of it on me and in general, rather than solely based on functionality and inexpensiveness.

So... very surreal. Neat! But surreal. On the plus side, it's helpful to get confirmation of the fact that I really *am* developing a good sense of what looks good on me. I wonder if I ought to go through my clothing to see what I no longer want to keep, and give it to goodwill (or the equivalent)?

And, as determined recently, I have an oddly good color sense. I may not necessarily be able to explain *why*, but I can tell if a color looks good or bad on someone (else - not so good with myself yet). I mean, I know I'm very color-oriented, but this was rather startling a thing to realize.

Hmm. Maybe I need to go have a long chat with myself about long-standing beliefs about myself that I'm having trouble letting go? Like, say, the fact that I still default to thinking I'm blonde (which, well, I'm not. Haven't been since puberty). Or that I don't have a good clothing sense. There's probably more, some more insidious than others.

Sorta funny when I realize that the things I decided a while ago I needed to work on are suddenly no longer needing to be worked on. I wonder if the fact that I had to work on developing a sense of what looks good on me will mean it'll change appropriately if my physical appearance changes enough?

Clothing, mostly

There's something moderately surreal about getting bunches of compliments (not all at the same time or from the same people) on the winter coat I've been wearing.

I don't think of myself as one with a good sense of what looks good on me, although I've been attempting to develop one. And it hasn't been until the past couple years that I started buying clothing based on my liking of it on me and in general, rather than solely based on functionality and inexpensiveness.

So... very surreal. Neat! But surreal. On the plus side, it's helpful to get confirmation of the fact that I really *am* developing a good sense of what looks good on me. I wonder if I ought to go through my clothing to see what I no longer want to keep, and give it to goodwill (or the equivalent)?

And, as determined recently, I have an oddly good color sense. I may not necessarily be able to explain *why*, but I can tell if a color looks good or bad on someone (else - not so good with myself yet). I mean, I know I'm very color-oriented, but this was rather startling a thing to realize.

Hmm. Maybe I need to go have a long chat with myself about long-standing beliefs about myself that I'm having trouble letting go? Like, say, the fact that I still default to thinking I'm blonde (which, well, I'm not. Haven't been since puberty). Or that I don't have a good clothing sense. There's probably more, some more insidious than others.

Sorta funny when I realize that the things I decided a while ago I needed to work on are suddenly no longer needing to be worked on. I wonder if the fact that I had to work on developing a sense of what looks good on me will mean it'll change appropriately if my physical appearance changes enough?

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Fascinating:

http://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov/ery_uv/ery_uv1.html

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Fascinating:

http://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov/ery_uv/ery_uv1.html