Archives for category: Recommendations

1. Wash clothes — cold setting (save water heater energy!)
2. Skip dryer (save regular energy!)
3. Wear wet clothes (clothes dry on your body! body stays cool! you sweat less cause you’re cooler, so clothes stay cleaner!)

CAVEATS:
- stay out of dust storms
- don’t sit on cloth chairs
- that’s it, I mean, that’s pretty manageable, right?

Punish Yourself / Take Care Of Yourself:

1. Get up to work while it’s still dark

2. Exercise hard — you’re sitting too still the rest of the time

3. No candy… makes you jittery

4. Less alchohol… makes you sleepy

5.  Eat breakfast… high in fiber

6. Maintain hygiene (tooth brushing, showers, hair removal, laundry, a clean workspace, etc)

7. NO SHENANIGANS. WRITE OR DIE

Spoil Yourself:

1/2/3:

(actually, this legitimately helps me not bite my nails and focus better)

(wrote this yesterday)

So I know it’s Christmas Eve and you’re not supposed to be blogging during this time of year … but I’m not trying to get tons of traffic on this blog or anything and it’s not like anyone in my house is going anywhere until Dad finishes watching football anyways, so everyone else is just laying around doing whatever. I just finished reading every single Christmas card we got in the mail and in doing so came up with a system for explaining my favorites. ERGO the Christmas Card Scorecard:

- No Christmas card: ZERO points (how will we remember you exist?)
- Christmas card: +1 point
- Cool stamp: +1 point
- Custom address labels: +1 point
- No return address: -1 point
- Lined envelope: +1 point
- Glitter or sparkles: +1 point
- My family’s names (surname and/or individual first names) are spelled right: +1 point
- Anyone’s name is spelled wrong: -1 point per misspelling
- Card itself is an update letter: +2 points
- Card itself is an update letter with family photos printed on it: +2 points
- Card itself is a family photo AND separate typed letter: +3 points
- Update letter is typed in Comic Sans: -1 point
- Card showcases a tastefully selected/placed Bible verse: +1 point
- More than 1 Bible verse: -1 point
- Euphemisms and/or PC language (i.e. “Hope your holiday has lots of smiles” instead of “the Son of God was born today, enjoy”): -1 point
- Card has multiple family photos: +1 point per photo
- Photo has explanatory caption: +1 point per photo-caption pair
- Explanatory captions are handwritten: +1 point each
- Family photo obviously taken especially for Christmas: +1 point
- Family photo is from family vacation: +1 point if it was intentional (i.e the time my family spent an hour in front of Old Faithful in July to get the “perfect Christmas picture”), -1 point if it was just a last-minute Xmas card idea (and yes you as reader get to decide)
- Vacation place is listed on card: +1 point
- Family photo from wedding: -1 point if I was invited, +1 point if I wasn’t (if I went then I already HAVE that photo on my iPhone and if I didn’t then I want it for my fridge), -1 point either way for manipulating Christmas festivities into a post-wedding-announcement
- Family photo involves snow: +1 point
- Photo includes timestamp in bottom right corner: -1 point
- Photos with children wearing clothes with their college/school name on them: +1 point (efficient)
- Photos with people wearing clothes with their sport/activity/organization on them: +1 point (efficient again)
- Photos with children wearing clothes with their school and activity on them (i.e. “Stanford Baseball): +2 points (efficient AND accomplished)
- Everyone matches in the photo: +1 point
- Absence of adults in family photos: -1 point
- Unexplained children in family photos: -1 point
- Unexplained marital status of attractive older children in family photos: -1 point
- Cute kids in family photos: +1 point
- Cutest kid of all time in family photo (thanks Cousin Colin & Rheena for deciding to breed): +5 points
- Photos of pets: +1 point
- Pet included in signature: +1 point
- Pet PAWPRINT included in signature: +1 point
- Pixellated photos: -1 point
- Pixellated anything: -1 point
- Anything handwritten: +1 point
- Only “Love, (Name) or (the ____ Family)” handwritten: -1 point
- Handwritten in different color pens: +1 point
- 8 1/2 x 11 pages are folded lopsided: -1 point
- Flyer for your company included: -1 point
- Flyer for your mission/ministry support included: -1 point
- Typos: -1 point EACH
- Written by person over the age of 60: +1 point
- This elderly narrator uses the word “friggin’”: 3 points
- People in photos look more attractive than you remember: +1 point
- People in photos look legitimately happy: +1 point
- People in photos look forced: -1 point
- Over 1 paragraph of update letter spent on any one subject: -1 point
- Over 1 paragraph of update letter spent on medical issues: -1 point
- Children get unequal amounts of update time in the letter: -1 point
- Makes you LOL: +1 point per LOL
- Makes you cry: +3 points
- Makes you jealous: -1000 points for the reader, you should be happy to hear about people doing well

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