Completion

I’ve started writing things on my to-do list that I know I will not forget to do, just for the pleasure of crossing them off and reminding myself of all I DID get done on those days I look back and ask myself, where did the day go?

Hope

Hope is resilience in the face of sometimes-inconvenient facts.

Requisite

I’m watching a mattress commercial, and it occurs to me that there is such a profession as mattress designer, or mattress engineer, and I want to take one aside and ask them if there is really a design reason to make mattresses that thick and if so, what it is.

I’m not going to say this is a question which keeps me awake at night, but since this IS night and I’m still awake, this question does not exactly promote sleep, either.

Advice for these times, that you may already know

You go to the store, and you can’t buy the thing you want to buy at the price you’re used to pay, because they are out.
Next to it – an acceptable substitute, for a little more, and that is in stock.
You might want to buy it. Because next week, they may be out of that as well. And there you’ll stand, with money, and nothing to buy with it.
And — c’mon. Don’t get down to your last roll of toilet paper before you add toilet paper to your shopping list. You know better. Yes you do.

Knock knock!

If there’s one thing I know about the unexpected, it’s that you should always expect it.

Its precise form will reveal itself to you at its convenience.

Volunteers

I can be my own worse enemy.

And why should I work that hard, when there is no shortage of volunteers for the position?