Life Strategies: Episodes 1-30

Episode: Strategy:
1 Knit/Crochet
2 Self-Talking
3 Breathing
4 Baby Steps
5 Thought Stopping
6 Distraction
7 Making Lists
8 Meditation
9 Secret Weapons
10 Use your Holidays
11 Just Keep Swimming
12 Exercise
13 Yoga
14 Reframing
15 Reality testing
16 Sleep on it
17 Gathering Evidence
18 Conduct an Experiment
19 Rehearsal
20 Holiday Strategies I: Establish a schedule for the holidays
21 Holiday Strategies II: Eating strategies: self-talk & storage containers avoid “Last Supper Syndrome”
22 Holiday Strategies III: Budgeting for and thinking about gifts
23 Holiday Strategies IV: How to reschedule when you need to let someone down gently and Broken Record
24 How to Apologize
25 Apologies, part 2–When the recipient won’t accept the apology
26 Apologies, part 3–Forgive and a Modified Forget
27 Dolittle’s Theory: Don’t borrow trouble
28 The Woes of Divorce
29 You Can’t Win If You Don’t Try
30 Sleep Hygiene

Episode 30 is live

The newest afghan on the hook. What's On My Hook/Needles: Turned the heel of the first sock of the PacaPeds HT pair--racing down the foot!, and the sock-yarn cowl from Last-Minute Knitted Gifts and a new afghan in ripples from the Vanna's Choice book.

A Strategy: Managing the Winter Blues: Sleep Hygiene (yawn)

Something I Really Like: My BED is my private paradise!

Blather: Podcast stuff, cross-pollinating with Never Not Knitting podcast (which I love), and following Nelson's cases--how I spent one of the greatest days in American history.

AND YEP--ITUNES IS NOT LETTING ME DOWNLOAD IT RIGHT NOW. MYPODCAST.COM STILL WORKS.

Episode 29

Paz likes the cooler weather. What's On My Hook/Needles: Railroad yarn Y Shawl, 2nd Scraptacular Square, the first sock of the PacaPeds HT pair--racing down the foot!, and the sock-yarn cowl from Last-Minute Knitted Gifts is in last place--again!.

A Strategy: You have to lose a lot to win a few, and you have to try to have any chance of winning at all

Something I Really Like: The Internet!

Blather: Work, work, work!

Episode 28 is Live

Begging for a better strategy next episode... What's On My Hook/Needles: Railroad yarn Y Shawl, 2nd Scraptacular Square, the first sock of the PacaPeds HT pair now has a turned heel, and the sock-yarn cowl from Last-Minute Knitted Gifts is in last place.

A Strategy: A bit about the woes of divorce.

Something I Really Like: The History of Rome podcast

Blather: Some of them are good patients and then some of them...

WHOOPPPEE!!!

We've crossed the 1,000 downloads per episode mark on MyPodcast.com!

I'm STUNNED!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

Episode 27 is Live

Quechua says "Hello!" What's On My Hook/Needles: Railroad yarn shawl, more scrapping with crochet, the first sock of the pair from last September creeps along, and the sock-yarn cowl from Last-Minute Knitted Gifts is not so last-minute.

A Strategy: Dolittle's Theory: Don't borrow trouble.

Something I Really Like: Taco Bell!

Blather: Spending some time on The Reception Yard

Episode 26 is Live

What's On My Hook/Needles: A shawl of railroad yarn (that's the last one I attempted, in the attached photo, trying to kill me) and more scrapping with crochet A Strategy: Apologies, part 3--Forgive and a Modified Forget

Something I Really Like: Color It Beautiful Afghans (to Crochet)

Blather: Responses to previous segment regarding why we stash beyond what we need or even really want--theories

And the Winners Are...UPDATED 1/4/09

The biggest winner is, of course, Nicole–roughly $320. for the wheelchair fund. She reports that the chair has been ordered, and her response to the amount was (I quote):

faints

wollmeise #1 – MOK
wollmeise #1 – Yarnbeans
Koigu x2 – Heidi
Cheeky’s handspun –HappyMe2
Pomtini from Yarnbeans – MaggieH
RKSmom’s bag + markers – leleslie45
DebInAtlanta’ fearless Fibers Merino –Straphanging