Comments for Coconut Joan

Comment on Sadness is by joanium

joanium — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:01:04 +0000

I had a ‘summer fruits’ muffin. Perhaps it was too healthy? I need to wait for one of those caramel pecan toffee or triple chocolate chip ones to show up in our cafe.

Comment on Sadness is by mr joel

mr joel — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:08:47 +0000

Try eating two muffins a day. You’ll find it smooths out the emotional extremes. Kinda like lithium…

Comment on Red glasses by joanium

joanium — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:26:40 +0000

Brad, the glasses market seems to have hotted up. They’re much cheaper than they used to be!

Maybe you can keep a pair of glasses at work and at home. I guess that’s less useful if you don’t go out without wearing them. I sometimes forget to bring mine with me.

Comment on Once more with feeling by The Wife

The Wife — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:07:58 +0000

LOL!!! I can just imagine what that would be like…sounds hillarious!

Comment on Red glasses by brad

brad — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:40:09 +0000

Joan, it sounds like we’ve been living parallel lives … just a bit out on timing … so I too lost my glasses (while travelling to NZ for a conference) and stumped up to buy two pairs from Specsavers for $199 a couple of weeks ago. I have only worn the one pair … I am thinking about saving the other pair. I am not sure I need two pairs. Last time I bought glasses (back in the pre-Cambridge days when I had far too much money) they cost me over $400 – sane brand, same store. That’s deflation for you.

Comment on Stair Climber: Update by nique

nique — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:19:34 +0000

i know what you mean! i tried to take the stairs to my office too, but i can only do it when im alone, when im with colleagues, i feel like i need to explain why i need to take the stairs and trying to make them feel like no, no they dont need too, its just me etc etc its so weird isnt it? :p

Comment on What keeps you up at night? by joanium

joanium — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:00:10 +0000

I made my deadline with 13 minutes to spare

hetelleb, I hope the day you’ve planned for so long lived up to your hopes!

I thought ‘stress’ was a predictable response to the Plinky question but when I looked through other people’s replies, no one mentioned stress. I think people were creative — they said ‘my son jumping into our bed’, or ‘a good book’, or ‘the internet’, or ‘traffic noise’.

I must admit, the internet and books have kept me up before. Also ‘window shopping’ on eBay

Comment on What keeps you up at night? by Yap

Yap — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:36:13 +0000

Anxiety and coffee keep me up at night.

Comment on What keeps you up at night? by hetelleb

hetelleb — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:16:05 +0000

When I’m stressed and worried about work, my body shuts down and I tend to get really tired and sleepy. I would sleep, but would wake up in panic attack every couple of hours. My heart would raced a 100 mile an hour.

What keeps me up is when there is something I am really excited about the next day. For example, like something that I have planned for a very long time and it is finally happening. And I would be awake all night thinking how everything would go smoothly and everyone would think that I am the BEST! HAHA…

Comment on What keeps you up at night? by The Wife

The Wife — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:06:19 +0000

Ooooooh now I’m going to have trouble getting sleep b/c I’ll be thinking about all the things that keep me up!!
hehe / just kidding.

I’m like you — deadlines are killer. They not only keep me awake late but once I do fall asleep, I am constantly waking up, almost every 20 minutes to make sure I’m up early enough to get into work early to have enough time to finish everything!!