A poorly executed ode to why it’s so quiet around here
It got cold and snowy.
My computer is in the unfinished basement.
My basement feels windy, as if it’s outside.
I can hardly stand to sit there and check my email.
I have to come up with cute names for 100 new products.
I’m dealing with copy for two catalogs.
Oh, and sell sheets for the above.
We’re starting up new packaging.
(See 100 new products)
That’s by mid-February.
Work is kicking my arse.
The kids are kicking what’s left of it.
Sleep is my only friend.
Except when I dream about fighting with my kids.
And not meeting my obligations at work.
Then sleep’s a hater, too.
"In summer we live out of doors, and have only impulses and feelings, which are all for action, and must wait commonly for the stillness and longer nights of autumn and winter before any thought will subside; we are sensible that behind the rustling leaves, and the stacks of grain, and the bare clusters of the grape, there is the field of a wholly new life, which no man has lived; that even this earth was made for more mysterious and nobler inhabitants than men and women. In the hues of October sunsets, we see the portals to other mansions than those which we occupy."
~Henry David Thoreau
December 8th, 2006 at 1:58 pm
Well, please know your REAL friends are standing by, sending you hugs and good wishes, hoping the cold will pass, that products get named and that life once again resumes its jolly course! Work and motherhood all at once are tough, for sure.
But your wonderful wit will save the day, I know!
December 8th, 2006 at 6:03 pm
{{{{Kelly}}}}
Why not program yourself to have a dream like mine last night where I got to be Mulder from the X-Files’ partner?
O.K. a little levity to break up your insanity there. I hope things get calmer, and soon, babe.
December 9th, 2006 at 11:47 pm
Your *not real* friends are here for you, too.
And do what I do - just call the 100 things minor variations of “Inexpensive Fun Product Glad To Be You With Luscious Hair 2007.”
December 10th, 2006 at 2:31 pm
It sucks having one’s ass kicked by anything, but with a list like that you’ll just have to reserve your energy until things are calmer-then you can kick back!
I wish I had more snow.
Hang in there!