About a week ago, my almost 9 year old approached me and said "Mom, I think I want to start keeping a journal. Can we get me a notebook to do that?" I asked him why and he said "I want to write down my thoughts - you know, like a diary?" I told him I understood - I told him that I have one (really two) online journal of my own, where I write down notes about my day, little (terrible) poems, music lyrics, etc. He thought that was cool and "It's pretty neat that I came up with my own idea to keep a journal - like you Mom!" It was cute.
So tonight he got out his journal to write and informed me that he is a "word accumulator" - "You know, Mom, I accumulate a lot of words that I then use frequently." I love hearing him talk like a little old man. ;-)
In other news...I'm having another rough go of it. The situation I had that I thought had evened out took a really - and I mean really - bad turn yesterday. This is "fun" to deal with...right.
Needless to say, I've been distracted and preoccupied. This leaves me ditzier (is that a word?) than usual. So first, yesterday, one of my co-workers in a way meant to be totally jokey messed with me. I missed it. Like it flew ENTIRELY over my head and lead me to do about 15 minutes of completely unnecessary work. COMPLETELY. He felt so bad he apologized to me for the rest of the day. It definitely wasn't his fault - it was actually pretty funny - but I knew that was a bad indication of me and my completely fried brain.
Then today, in addition to getting nabbed crying at my desk (over exhaustion, frustration, and some serious heartbreak), I was examining my new hot red platform shoes that I bought a couple of months ago that I finally wore today (peep toes) DESPITE the fact that we had snow.
hmm....why is this shoe a 9 - did I buy 9s?
look at other shoe
oh shit, this shoe is an 8.5.
I bought 2 different sized shoes.
That sealed it. I've complete and utterly lost my mind.
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To add real insult to injury - late this afternoon, a thorn in the side of my life for the last 2 decades decided to rear her ugly head again. I won't get into it beyond saying this:
Emotional manipulation, blackmail, and entitlement are nasty character flaws.
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