20MPDC 5/10/11

Tuesday 5/10/11

You would probably guess by the lack of posts this week, but I’ve been very conflicted about the 20MPDC. I haven’t been doing anything, as the lack of reporting (none this week) attests. Should I throw in the towel? Switch my focus? Pretend I never embarked on this journey?

Here’s what I’ve decided to do:
Knife sharpening. On hold until I save up enough money to get some equipment.

Craigslist posting. I’ve been holding steady at $8.00 worth of sales for a month now. I’m going to set this aside and then come back to it at the end of May. Then things will be priced to go. I’ve also been contemplating having a garage sale instead of posting each item for very cheap individually.

Harvest Helper. This is what I’m putting my main effort into. I want to have the blog done by the end of this month and start handing out the flyers in early June.

20 minutes. I set my timer for 20 minutes, then it goes off and then I still have to post, making this an event longer than 20 minutes. I will set my timer for 15 minutes, then spend five minutes reporting the day’s efforts.

Three sentence movie reviews: Fast Five


This movie is awesome in its incredibly unbelievable plot, its fabulous (and also unbelievable) special effects, its over-the-top, well, everything. I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed it, far beyond its actual worthiness. Could my great love for this film have to do with Vin Diesel, a man who looks like he was an incredible nerd all through his formative years*, yet bulked up and became a hunky star, despite his lack of official good looks, so-so acting skills and odd voice?

poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2011/fast_five_ver5.html


*Hah! IMDB reports that he is a D&D fan! I knew it!

20MPDC 5/3/11

Oh dear, I’ve done nothing until today, May 3. I’ve gotten in a slump with the daily routines and so the 20MPDC has fallen to the wayside with the rest of them. But here I am, crawling out of the wayside back to the thoroughfare.

Tuesday, May 3
I took another picture of items I wish to sell on Craigslist. I reposted all of my expired, unsold posts reducing the price of all but one of them. I found the WordPress site (I had bookmarked it last time) and then had trouble figuring out how to sign in. My goal is to have the blog finished by the end of the month so I can reference it on the flyers which I will hand out beginning at the end of this month also.

Poem for April: Love after Love

Go and read it here:
http://www.cjbecker.com/love_after_love.htm

(Ignore the centered spacing in the above layout, it really should be left justified)

I came across this poem while reading O, the Oprah Magazine. I immediately clipped it. Its brevity meant that I could stick it to a 3×5 card and add it to the stack of quotes that sit on my desk at work. It’s still the only poem in that stack.

Like last month’s selection, this poem is one that brings me back to myself. I can spend a lot of time being distracted by what isn’t in my life, and I need reminders to be redirected back to the fact that what is in my life, is lovely.