Comments on: SchroedinHavi’s Cat http://eileenvalazza.com/2008/11/the-cat/ Love & Greens Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:12:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Eileen http://eileenvalazza.com/2008/11/the-cat/#comment-276 Eileen Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:35:33 +0000 http://ecorrigan.wordpress.com/?p=234#comment-276 Oh, and I adjusted the timezone on my blog settings, so for some reason my comments are inserting themselves in the wrong place. Oops! Hopefully that won't happen after this... Oh, and I adjusted the timezone on my blog settings, so for some reason my comments are inserting themselves in the wrong place. Oops! Hopefully that won’t happen after this…

]]> By: Eileen http://eileenvalazza.com/2008/11/the-cat/#comment-275 Eileen Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:34:20 +0000 http://ecorrigan.wordpress.com/?p=234#comment-275 Wow, it is strange to cross over the line from just talking to myself to where people actually read what I wrote. And wonderful, present kinds of people who actually think about this stuff too! I'm still sitting here typing on my same laptop, but it seems like a different world. Thank you all so much for your kind comments. This makes it gentler and sweeter to be out of the blogging "closet." Oh and Grace, isn't that the truth... once you face the *thing*, the healing/dealing part can turn out to be surprisingly easy. What a crack-up :) Wow, it is strange to cross over the line from just talking to myself to where people actually read what I wrote. And wonderful, present kinds of people who actually think about this stuff too! I’m still sitting here typing on my same laptop, but it seems like a different world. Thank you all so much for your kind comments. This makes it gentler and sweeter to be out of the blogging “closet.”

Oh and Grace, isn’t that the truth… once you face the *thing*, the healing/dealing part can turn out to be surprisingly easy. What a crack-up :)

]]> By: vbrouhard http://eileenvalazza.com/2008/11/the-cat/#comment-274 vbrouhard Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:27:31 +0000 http://ecorrigan.wordpress.com/?p=234#comment-274 Wow...thank you for being brave and sharing such a real part of yourself. "All the while wondering why the hell is my house such a mess?" I just love that. Those parts of my life that always seem to stay messy...what cat am *I* avoiding? Please keep writing...can't wait to read more! Wow…thank you for being brave and sharing such a real part of yourself.

“All the while wondering why the hell is my house such a mess?”

I just love that.

Those parts of my life that always seem to stay messy…what cat am *I* avoiding?

Please keep writing…can’t wait to read more!

]]> By: Grace http://eileenvalazza.com/2008/11/the-cat/#comment-273 Grace Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:49:07 +0000 http://ecorrigan.wordpress.com/?p=234#comment-273 Yeah, that turning-to-face-what's-chasing-you thing. Uh huh. Funny thing is, how often does the monster under the bed turn out to be dust bunnies in the end? I can't tell you how many times I've run shrieking from stuff that makes me laugh when I finally give up in exhaustion and turn around! :) Congratulations on joining the blogoverse! Yeah, that turning-to-face-what’s-chasing-you thing. Uh huh.

Funny thing is, how often does the monster under the bed turn out to be dust bunnies in the end? I can’t tell you how many times I’ve run shrieking from stuff that makes me laugh when I finally give up in exhaustion and turn around! :)

Congratulations on joining the blogoverse!

]]> By: James | Dancing Geek http://eileenvalazza.com/2008/11/the-cat/#comment-272 James | Dancing Geek Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:31:28 +0000 http://ecorrigan.wordpress.com/?p=234#comment-272 "I’m running around slamming doors and knocking shit over just to avoid looking at it." LMAO! Hehehehehe. I seem to have developed a stigmatism where my eyes will jerk to look at something else whenever I see a cat - it's odd, disconcerting and leaves me convinced that cats don't exist. Either way (putting the much maligned metaphor out of the way) it sucks when I'm not noticing what's going on - hence trying to practice mindfulness every day (30 day trial going at the moment) to see if any cats crop up for cuddles and something to eat. *miaow* “I’m running around slamming doors and knocking shit over just to avoid looking at it.”

LMAO! Hehehehehe.

I seem to have developed a stigmatism where my eyes will jerk to look at something else whenever I see a cat – it’s odd, disconcerting and leaves me convinced that cats don’t exist. Either way (putting the much maligned metaphor out of the way) it sucks when I’m not noticing what’s going on – hence trying to practice mindfulness every day (30 day trial going at the moment) to see if any cats crop up for cuddles and something to eat.

*miaow*

]]> By: Marissa http://eileenvalazza.com/2008/11/the-cat/#comment-271 Marissa Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:22:03 +0000 http://ecorrigan.wordpress.com/?p=234#comment-271 This post totally triggered a mini-epiphany for me (an epiphanette, if you will), which makes this post (a) awesome and (b) a bookmarked favorite. The running around knocking shit down to avoid noticing the cat (even though I'm obviously noticing the cat on some level, hence my tearing around the house and causing additional chaos...) could be listed in the "Hobbies" section of my online profiles on a lot of days. I heart Havi for being such a catalyst for courage and insights and epiphanies, and I heart you for blogging your own insights and epiphanies right here were other folks like moi can get inspired by them and then leave a big ol' excited stream-of-consciousness comment about it. KUDOS to you. I'm subscribing and look forward to more yummy totally relateable goodness. :) This post totally triggered a mini-epiphany for me (an epiphanette, if you will), which makes this post (a) awesome and (b) a bookmarked favorite.

The running around knocking shit down to avoid noticing the cat (even though I’m obviously noticing the cat on some level, hence my tearing around the house and causing additional chaos…) could be listed in the “Hobbies” section of my online profiles on a lot of days.

I heart Havi for being such a catalyst for courage and insights and epiphanies, and I heart you for blogging your own insights and epiphanies right here were other folks like moi can get inspired by them and then leave a big ol’ excited stream-of-consciousness comment about it.

KUDOS to you. I’m subscribing and look forward to more yummy totally relateable goodness. :)

]]> By: Havi Brooks (and duck) http://eileenvalazza.com/2008/11/the-cat/#comment-270 Havi Brooks (and duck) Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:58:43 +0000 http://ecorrigan.wordpress.com/?p=234#comment-270 My dream has come true. Through some crazy freaking miracle, there are all of a sudden a bunch of blogs I actually feel like reading. This is brilliant. And this is exactly where I want to be. With bright, loving, caring, thinking, working-through-this-crap with patience and intention kind of people who are TALKING about all the stuff that I think about all the time. Beautiful post. I think the practice of learning to remember "Oh crap! It's that cat again!" is another annoying life learning thing, and it gets easier with time. Or the cat gets louder. Something like that. Love. This. Blog. *kiss* My dream has come true. Through some crazy freaking miracle, there are all of a sudden a bunch of blogs I actually feel like reading.

This is brilliant. And this is exactly where I want to be.

With bright, loving, caring, thinking, working-through-this-crap with patience and intention kind of people who are TALKING about all the stuff that I think about all the time.

Beautiful post. I think the practice of learning to remember “Oh crap! It’s that cat again!” is another annoying life learning thing, and it gets easier with time. Or the cat gets louder. Something like that.

Love. This. Blog.

*kiss*

]]> By: ecorrigan http://eileenvalazza.com/2008/11/the-cat/#comment-269 ecorrigan Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:51:48 +0000 http://ecorrigan.wordpress.com/?p=234#comment-269 Exactly! Like sometimes I'm not even aware enough to do that (and I mean for YEARS at a time!) Thanks for being the first commenter as I sl-oooo-wly open up in small ways about my supersecret blog. That you are the Milk Duds writer makes it just perfect somehow. Exactly! Like sometimes I’m not even aware enough to do that (and I mean for YEARS at a time!)

Thanks for being the first commenter as I sl-oooo-wly open up in small ways about my supersecret blog. That you are the Milk Duds writer makes it just perfect somehow.

]]> By: Diane Whiddon-Brown http://eileenvalazza.com/2008/11/the-cat/#comment-268 Diane Whiddon-Brown Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:18:39 +0000 http://ecorrigan.wordpress.com/?p=234#comment-268 I totally hear you. I think the hardest part about this whole, crazy, self-work process is just realizing that you're having a moment in the first place. Sure, meditate, acknowledge, self-compassion, blah, blah. But, how am I supposed to do those things when I don't even know when I need them? *cognitive dissonance* And I love your description of the meltdown. Metaphors are great. I find that that's the only way I'll even listen to myself. If I can make it sound like it's coming from a third person, then I'll pay attention. Since I'm the Milk Dud writer Havi talked about in her post, I guess that makes sense. The weirdness of the human psyche... I totally hear you. I think the hardest part about this whole, crazy, self-work process is just realizing that you’re having a moment in the first place. Sure, meditate, acknowledge, self-compassion, blah, blah. But, how am I supposed to do those things when I don’t even know when I need them? *cognitive dissonance*

And I love your description of the meltdown. Metaphors are great. I find that that’s the only way I’ll even listen to myself. If I can make it sound like it’s coming from a third person, then I’ll pay attention. Since I’m the Milk Dud writer Havi talked about in her post, I guess that makes sense. The weirdness of the human psyche…

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