Hello,

Image used from The Tao of Dana.

Hello to recommitting to reading. I have started lots of things lately - including Art of Fielding (Angie - read this!), Gone Girl, Imagine: How Creativity Works (Katrina - read this!), and This Is Not the Story You Think It Is - and finished very little. I will work on that by reading before bed instead of watching Friends re-runs.

Hello to thinking about fall - particularly an autumn wardrobe.

Hello to a new lamp for my bedside table. This girl is ecstatic to no longer need to incorporate nature into her decor plans.

Hello to considering whether my finances will allow a late-summer get-away. I'm not accustomed to having to think so much about the financial piece of anything.

Hello to less eating out. I bought breakfast and lunch food for the week. Plus, I need to start cooking for myself again. Maybe a cookbook - Dinner for One - will come out of this phase in my life. An entire chapter may be devoted to mooching meals off other people; that seems to be one of my go-to strategies. Thanks to everyone who has fed me recently.


Hello to using Momento to think about Project Life every day. In addition, I'm going to be sure to collect one "thing" every day this week. I've fallen out of that habit.

Stole the idea for "Hello Monday" from Katrina who Stole it from Lisa Leonard.

Note. Stole is an word I use in the most loving way possible.