Just dropped my girl off to school. After a week and a half of closed doors, her teacher opened her arms and waited for Eva’s welcome-back hug. I ran into them instead.
My Nonsensical Thought of the Day
Still in the dark, but wiser
What the kids learned during today’s power outage: sucking on a flashlight makes red light come out of your nose. What Doug learned: there are some things even his Jeep can’t handle. What I learned: I really, really need to learn how to hook up the generator by myself.
This brings back horrible memories.
A friend request in the left-hand corner of my screen this morning drove me to drinking. My mother is on facebook. Suddenly she’s rifling through my underwear drawer during the teenage years, uncovering all my most intimate notes folded up into little white houses. To confirm or not to confirm? That is the crisis.
Stop worrying or die.
The New England Journal of Medicine reported that 75 to 90% of all doctors visits are due to stress-related ailments and disorders. Worrying contributes to headaches, high blood pressure, heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, skin conditions, asthma, arthritis, depression, stomach ulcers and early death. In other words, it’s time to start worrying about worrying. And then, for the love of God, STOP—before it kills you.