I haven't posted in a long time because honestly all I could think to write about was how insanely stupid I've been to take on so much at once. Trying to obtain my teaching credential, while shuttling my kids to their activities, and volunteering at their school way more than could possibly be healthy makes me feel like Cat in the Hat up on the ball watching all the things fall. Honestly, I'm almost 40. You'd think I'd know better by now. But some recent, grave happenings on the periphery of my existence have made me stop and realize how very fortunate I am to have the choice to make myself crazy busy, and how I really need to do something terrible cliche and stop to smell the roses as life goes by at its dizzying pace. In honor of my rose sniffing attempt I will now share with you the two things I learned today.
1) From Drew I learned that Opossums are marsupials.
2) From the Internet I learned how to download a new font into my computer.
Huzzah! Boy do I feel smart, but when I really look deeper I realize that I've learned all sorts of fun facts today that I'm hoping my brain will somehow file away while I sleep for retrieval at some other quite possibly inappropriate time.
I learned that:
Trader Joe mini chocolate chip cookies are NOT the breakfast of champions
Movie sets make me nostalgic for my college days, especially when I stumbled upon them in the Food Court of my local mall while buying my father's birthday present.
Game Stop employees know their products almost too well (OK, not almost)
Even though I've never been a "shopper" As Seen On TV stores can tempt me to make irrational purchases
I can leave my house at 12:08, purchase a latte from Starbucks and still make it to teach my 12:25 class
The wacky geek display at Fry's Electronics that sounds like the birth of Frankenstein's monster scares me every single time it goes off
I hate confrontation, and I always beat myself up about it after the fact, even when deep down I feel I did the right thing
I hate laundry
Ah so much hate there at the end, right when I really want to rosey-up my outlook on life. I'd like to find a happy note on which to leave this post, yet somehow they elude me completely. Drat!
