Perfecting the Art of Insanity, One Day at a Time
Bypassing all the gory details, last week was rough. All I can say now is it involved a mental health crisis, two ambulance rides, and driving home after midnight. (I was the one driving. It was neither G nor myself carted off via ambulance.) Medical and counseling appointments have been scheduled in follow up, and…
#1 The bad: the supply line to the water heater sprung a leak today. I definitely didn’t build a plumber into this month’s already-stretched budget. In the greater scheme of things, it could be far worse. We turned the water off to the house until we could get it fixed. The good: There’s a small…
The other shoe’s done hit the floor with a resounding THUMP. We made a 140-mile dash in the middle of the night a couple of weeks ago, to pick up our older daughter and youngest grandson. Her husband pulled a gun on them. It was the last straw for my daughter (understandably). She and the…
Christmas decor at our house is generally limited to 1) our tabletop Christmas tree and 2) a solitary string of battery-powered lights over the front porch and carport. A week before Christmas last year, half the lights in our pre-lit tree bit the dust. A couple of days later, so did the outdoor lights. Before…
My hair got ridiculously long – about halfway between my shoulder blades and my waist. And it was driving me CRAZY. I’m not talking about fancy hairstyling, nothing like that. I’m talking about something in my hair causes my skin to break out everywhere it touches. (Changing hair products has been zero help. I’ve tried…