Yesterday I opened a gmail account I rarely use and found an email from my high school boyfriend <all the pins drop>. Nothing major just a checking in/hey how are you doing kinda thing, but it struck me as odd because he’s crossed my mind a few times since we saw The Fault In Our Stars on Sunday. I mean this guy was basically the non-cancer version of Augustus Waters back in the day, and I don’t think I’ve checked…
A couple weeks ago some broccoli fell on my head at Whole Foods. Not one bunch, but like all the bunches rolled off the shelf in a torrential downpour of broccoli. I could feel everyone stop and turn around, and the guy next to me graciously broke the ice saying, ‘Whoa. Are you okay? That broccoli tried to take you out.’ I was laughing so hard while I scrambled to put it all back that I could hardly respond. The…
At some point I’ll start talking about getting out of the hole (beats a dead horse), but not yet. First I’m going to take a moment to feel like crap. On Sunday we went to see Maleficent (friggin A was it good). When we parked the car outside the theater I felt the rumblings of a panic attack. Ever have one of those? They suck. One minute I’m completely fine and the next it’s like an earthquake goes off in…
Today has been a real battle of the wills. My old will vs what I’d like to believe is my new, emerging will. Around 9 o’clock this morning there was a huge bang and the windows rattled. While I was making sure another one of the neighbors hadn’t accidentally blown up their meth lab (like last month), another massive crash came from downstairs. Well, duh! Obviously the landlord had sent his guy over to demo the bathroom of the not-even-12-hours-cold-from-the-last-tenant…