Heidi's Hideaway (now with added class!)
Posted in Everyday, Size acceptance on Feb 1st, 2010
This is me.
That’s a head-shot of me taken by a colleague of mine because I needed something semi-official looking to put in all of my profiles for the iSchool (and for various other purposes). It’s a decent shot, although, as with all photos of myself EVAR, I look at it and think “omg uglyfathorrible”. Well, [...]
Posted in Everyday on Jan 11th, 2010
I’ve been having a bit of writers’ block lately regarding this blog. That personal bugbear of the enneagram Type Four, I’ve been feeling dull and boring. Nothing that I say seems at all creative, here in my journal or in my creative writing. That little inner child starts screaming, “I’m not GOOD [...]
Posted in Everyday on Jan 7th, 2010
Hello, my name is Heidi.
Yes, I have been compulsively refreshing my Gmail account for the last two days, because I’m bored – normally I enjoy my job but at the moment it’s pure data entry, which means that I’m going a little nuts and need a couple of minutes of *interesting* reading every little while [...]
Posted in Everyday on Jan 7th, 2010
Given the context, perhaps my subconscious had a message for me in that dream last night about mice scuttling around…
Dreammoods says:
To see mice in your dream, indicates that you are spending too much time dwelling on minor problems and insignificant matters.
Oh, and that baby bat that I rescued?
[B]ats represent rebirth. You need to let go [...]
Posted in Everyday on Jan 3rd, 2010
So. The point of my post a couple of days ago, which apparently did not translate well into the written medium and which I’ve set as private out of respect for the individuals involved and apologized for, was that I’ve spent the better part of my life trying to fix things.
That person who hunts down [...]
Posted in Everyday, Size acceptance on Dec 10th, 2009
Someone who’s eaten naturally their whole life will not understand what I mean when I say that the last few days it has been something like a miracle to finish a meal, still be a little hungry, and not have the first thought in my head be, “Ugh, I’m SUCH a loser for not being [...]
Posted in Everyday, Size acceptance on Dec 8th, 2009
We’ve been lucky enough, here in Seattle of the dreary, grey winters and the ever-cloudy skies, to have several days of beautiful, sunny mornings. This morning’s sunrise was a dream of Maxfield Parrish colors, with fire-tinged pink clouds against a baby-blue sky. Last night’s sunset, viewed over the Olympics, was exactly like a [...]
It’s been two whole weeks since I posted here. When I get too overwhelmed by life, this is generally the last thing for which I make any time. I obsessively refresh Facebook and Gmail as I work frantically on all the homework that seems to pile up. The minute I get the [...]
Posted in Everyday on Oct 29th, 2009
A mass of disorganized, incoherent thoughts in the guise of an update:
- Missing the in-laws, who flew home early this morning after five days with us. Wishing they could have stayed longer, as it breaks my heart that Ciaran barely remembers them.
- Work welcomed me back with a microwave that promptly started sparking, smoking, [...]
Posted in Everyday, Size acceptance on Oct 21st, 2009
My husband reads this blog. I also blog over at Livejournal, incidentally, and at least THERE I have a “no family” posting option, but not here, alas.
His response to my post flinging myself into the fray of the Frantic Fatosphere Fuss of October 20-21 Nought 9? Reassurance that I’m right? An in-depth [...]
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