Not Going to Try to Catch Up

Hi Folks --

I've been blogging over at Tumblr for the past few months -- which essentially means that I've been posting and re-posting a lot of images and not being very word. (I know: Who are you and what have you done with QiA??)

Quickly:
1. Still in love with the guy from January. Things are going very nicely. He's not UncrownedKing, but no one ever will be. I'm content.

2. Going to graduate school for my MS in Health Communication. It's going well -- except for this paper that's going to be the death of me. I have a 24 hour, no penalty extension to finish it. Which probably explains why I'm on LJ for the first time in months!

3. Work is okay. Same old same old.

4. Wolfling continues to be an amazing, beautiful, creative, smart, and loving kid young woman. She's sixteen now. . . !!

5. Spiritual life has its ups and downs -- mostly in the consistency/discipline area. I feel like I'm in the process of pulling things together in a comprehensible way for the first time in a long time.

6. I've just re-started SparkPeople (www.sparkpeople.com) to get back to healthy eating and exercise habits. So far, so good.

Finally Found a Terrific Vision-Values-Roles-Goals Tool!

I’ve been wishing for months that I could somehow find or create an elegant, vivid way to express the ways my spiritual path and vocation, my career aspirations (which include my current graduate school program), my health and fitness endeavors, my domestic life, my creativity, and my role as mother in one place — and I’d pretty much given up. Everything intertwines at so many levels, it seemed impossible to find a single tool that could bring it all together.

But the other day I stumbled upon an iPad app called “Inspire!” It seems to be built on the Franklin Covey process of identifying values, roles, and goals, and then putting them all together. It has beautiful built-in images, but also the ability to add your own. Ditto motivational quotes, which can be categorized by values. To my surprise, the streaming desktop/quote feature includes the photos I’ve added to illustrate my roles and values, along with the text I entered to express them. It weaves everything together in a gorgeous package that even includes the option of music!

All this for $4.99.

I’m delighted with it — and as soon as I get this project from hell completed, I’m going to sit down and do some focused work with it.

iPad

One reason I can start getting back to LJ is that my iPod allows me to access this site during the work day, even though my workplace has a firewall that blocks it.

My old smartphone worked okay with LJ but the newer one was never reliable.

I don't have as much at work as used to have back at FormerMyCo, but at least I can use the iPad to read my friends list during breaks -- and on the bus!