Have you taken the Myers-Briggs test? It is a personality test that rates you on four categories, and was all the rage in corporate everywhere a while back. I officially took it the first time in grad school, and have taken it twice since then. It is pretty interesting, I can’t remember what all of [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Introversion
February 28, 2012Mind Over Body Over Horse
February 23, 2012Oh, the canter. It is so hard for me. For a looooong time, the canter transition (getting the horse to canter) was near impossible. Since my new, fancy stirrups, I’ve had a much easier time. It is probably a coincidence of me finally figuring it out, but I still like to think of the fancy [...]
Lagniappe!
February 22, 2012Habia una vez, I taught school in rural Louisiana. Which was crazytown for a variety of reasons. Once, I was in the middle of punishing the whole class for something or other, and when I threatened just one more thing, one of the kids called out from the back: “Aw, is that lagniappe?” I had [...]
Marketing
February 21, 2012Friday, my boss asked me if I was going to start gardening this weekend. “Start?” I said. “I’ve been gardening!” That is the glory of Northern California… veggie gardening is a year-round project. In addition to the sea of favas and crazy-kale, the cabbage and cauliflower (behind the cabbage) has been particularly lovely this year. [...]
Before and After
February 20, 2012I can’t remember if I mentioned that I broke down and bought my very own saddle for horseback riding. My teachers had been telling me it needed to happen, and I just didn’t really think I was a good enough rider to warrant the expense. Luckily, I found one that fits my monster-femurs at [...]
Weekendery
February 20, 2012Aah, three day weekend. There are no words for how thankful I am for an extra day off. On the downside, Sunday afternoon I started to panic that I only had one more day off. Ugh. Back on the positive side, I did a lot of gardening Saturday and yesterday. My spinach plants were ready [...]
Rage
February 15, 2012This has been a crap week. Monday afternoon, I discovered that someone filed federal taxes using my name, date of birth, and social-EFFING-security number. That no good punk got their refund wired directly to their account today. How nice for them, right? You know what I get? An estimated 77 clock hours trying to reclaim [...]
The Kale Situation
February 14, 2012Back in December, my kale plants looked like this: In the words of Camille: “They look like something out of Dr. Seuss.” Since December, the plants have grown even taller and even crazier. They’re starting to grow side shoots, and are over five feet tall. Just when I was convinced that these were going to [...]
Field Trip
February 13, 2012Yesterday, I FINALLY made it to the Petaluma Seed Bank, a Baker Creek Seed Store. They are closed on Saturdays (who closes on Saturdays?) and have strange hours, so it took me several tries to make it out to Petaluma when they were open. PS- Downtown Petaluma is super cute! But having finally visited [...]
Tomato Cages
February 12, 2012In many of my garden photos, you might notice random tomato cages. I use the flimsy kind of tomato cage to protect plants from dogs. More delicate plants might get their own tomato cage, and I plunk them in the centers and edges of garden beds to prevent the dogs from running through at top [...]
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