because I'm bending time and space

Day Five: Six things you wish you’d never done.

I'm trying to gear up for a bit of writing today. Looks like I'm approaching these sequentially, but not really 24 hours apart. But here you go anyway. I'm a wild woman, no two ways about it!

This one was tough. There are a lot of things that I'd never do again, but very few things I would go back and not-do, given the choice.

1. Started really coloring my hair to cover up the gray. Don't get me wrong -- I don't like the gray at all. It's just that now I finally believe my Aunt Carol. I really am stuck with coloring it all the time now, or else will have to endure a difficult growing-out process to go back to natural. The cover-up color is pretty close to natural, but the percentage of gray is increasing quite rapidly and I find I don't really like the way I look without the color. AH, well. Vanity.


2. Attend that ninja class last week, when my foot was feeling good. I didn't re-injure my foot in that class, specifically, but I bet it was a factor. Yargh.


3. Screwed around so much my sophomore year of high school. If I had anything of a "rebellion year," that was it. I blew off a lot of classes -- particularly Physiology, which I was actually very interested in, since (at the time) I wanted to be a sports medicine sort of doctor. Deciding I'd rather go hang out at the beach kind of fucked that in the ear. I sort of wonder what my alternate-universe self would be doing right now, if I'd paid attention instead.


4. Gotten engaged as I left West Point. It was a bad choice, even recognizing all the reasons I did it. Still. Glad I managed to un-fuck that a bit by not actually marrying the guy after all.


5. Registered with LinkedIn. Yeah, I know it's a faboo professional networking site and all, but it's not one I like very much at all. I can't ever remember my password and my profile is woefully inadequate and it makes me feel terribly incompetent, yadda yadda yadda. Every other online resource I've got, I like working with to some degree or another, but LinkedIn is like my Waterloo. Or pants.


6. Promised Rowie that I'd get her a car. This promise was made way back when I was working, and she knows how the circumstances of our lives are different now, but I still feel shitty about it.

like there's a prize at the end!

Day Six: Five people who mean a lot (in no order whatsoever)

If I overthink this, I'll never get it done. Man, o, man.

1. My husband, diermuid


2. Our children, from whom I could not choose just one.


3. Our parents, without whom we could not have survived the last year.


4. Dear friend fionnabhar


5. Rowie's Boy, who means a great deal to her, and therefore needs watching