the hasten haus adventures

Sayonara and New Beginnings

In an effort to provide a more engaging reading-of-my-blog experience, I've moved to www.hastenhaus.com. I hope you'll join me too. It could be a party. Ohhh! With margaritas.

Please make sure to update your feeds, bookmarks, etc; the new site already has built-in options to sign up for posts as feeds or to be delivered to your inbox. All the old content is transferred over as well, and as of April 16, my typepad address will be closed. Raise your hand if you will miss typing in 35 characters just to get to my blog! Yaayyy...no one.  

Thank you for supporting me in all my 35 characters of madness, but here's to years of simplicity ahead. www.hastenhaus.com

A time for everything

I've done my share of giving up--sports, relationships, jobs, math. But relationships are the most difficult because I think we feel guilty for giving up, like we're supposed to hang on forever when the other doesn't want us to hang on, or when hanging on means hurting you more than the guilty party, or you're hanging on more to the hope of what could be rather than what actually is. 

Yay's got me listening to Dr. Laura (Please don't judge us. Actually, judge us--We don't care what you think.) whom I'm sure would say in no uncertain terms about said relationships, "Get out. Get out now." We can love people (and ourselves) sometimes better by letting go. I think. Or at least I can.   

Anyway, clearly this has been on my mind lately and I'm a wuss and a doormat when it comes to this stuff; I prefer to be labeled as "hopeful." But the encouraging thing is that in the midst of mustering courage, I've also been blessed with new-ish relationships that are growing, and a dormant relationship that just popped back up again (thanks Facebook). I like when things balance out. It makes the crummy stuff easier to see in perspective. And it's symmetrical. Even Steven (whoever Steven is).

I think there's a chain email that goes around every so often about how some friends come into your life for a purpose, or a season, and some last forever. Cheesy, yes. True, very. And I'm thankful for all, but I have to be honest: I can only manage a few at a time. I'm just not one of those people with a huge group of friends. I have a few favorites that I don't even give enough love to.

I think there was a point to this post when I started formulating it in my head on my commute in, but I forget what the punchline is supposed to be. Maybe I didn't get that far. Maybe when it was time to come up with the punchline, the car in front of me braked suddenly and my attention was needed elsewhere. Like not crashing. Again. So see, it's really a good thing that you've just lived through this entire post and have no glittery take-away because my car is unscathed. And so is the one in front of me.

Everything for a season, and if you're lucky, only the good will last longer.  

Daily Gratitudes

• That work is really busy. It's called job security.
• The closet's finished. Finally. And it's beautiful.
• For new life. (No, this is not an announcement.)

The Beginning of Public Gratitudes

I realize that as I am not the everything-is-peachy type, to the untrained eye, I may seem a little...glass half empty. I'm really not. Really. But because I do tend to use this space to rant, I want to balance the venting with Daily Gratitudes, because I don't want everyone who reads this to think I'm a negative person. Not that I care what others think. But I do, a little.

Most of the time (and all of the time when I stop to breathe and think about it) I realize just how blessed I am. And every day is something different; so at the end of each post, even if it's a political expose on corruption in Washington (which I will most probably never write), you will also now find what my heart's most recently glad about. Thanks to @SomethingGirl who started Daily Gratitudes and welcomes copycats. Makes me even braver to be honest.    

Daily Gratitudes

• Inspiration from other writers/bloggers/real people
• Publix deli turkey meat, thinly sliced
• Opportunities to travel
• Yay brought up Valentine's Day all on his own yesterday