With Labor Day weekend about to start, I started thinking about other upcoming holidays and events in the shockingly-not-so-distant future. I also discovered the website http://dayzeroproject.com/ yesterday, which reminded me that constantly having and setting goals and deadlines is a pretty good thing to do. Author Natalie Whipple also had a terrific post about self-imposed [...]
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So many countdowns!
posted by erin on September 3, 2010
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2010/so-many-countdowns
We’re homeowners!
So we live in Brooklyn now! Ah! Have for a bit more than a week. We’re homeowners! (And yes, that’s our bold red couch against the Williamsburg, Brooklyn skyline…) It’s so strange — we own this apartment. It’s still shock-inducing. The unpacking has gone quickly. We’re all but settled in. Last week I didn’t sit [...]
posted by erin on May 5, 2010
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2010/homeowners
Two days
I won’t make my deadline. (The deadline finish the WiP’s rewrite by January 1st.) I’ve known this for a while now and I’ve made my peace with it. The husband, too. He chuckled and said, “It was fictitious. You know you’re on a deadline, but I’m trying to remind you that the deadline isn’t ‘in [...]
posted by erin on December 29, 2009
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2009/two-days
Obligatory progress report
The writing deadline I’ve set for myself (or rather my husband guilted me into setting) is looming ever closer and I’m working on reaching it. I’m not sure at this point what the WiP will look like at that point, though. For the past few days I have been going painstakingly line by line over [...]
posted by erin on December 8, 2009
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2009/obligatory-progress-report
