Learning Curve

Posted by jessica on June 12th, 2007 filed in F & J, Ranting & Raving

Things I’ve learned this week:

It’s rude to not return four phone messages during deadline week. Particularly when the person leaving the messages is writing about your business and has to have it in by the end of the week.

Making up quotes is never a good idea. (Actually, I knew this already, but it helps to remind me while I’m still waiting for the lovely “featured advertiser” to call me back.)

Two-year-olds don’t share. At all.

Laughter is a good thing. The people who decided to put The Daily Show and Colbert Report online were geniuses and I applaud their cleverness.

Too much television will not cause children’s brains to melt out their ears, but it will cause them to be really cranky for the remainder of the day. (Unless they’ve been watching Wallace & Gromit. For some reason W & G escapes the Television Crankiness Curse. Must be the cheese.)

Frog-shaped sugar cookies are excellent (and tasty) procrastination tools. (Though I don’t think I’ll dwell on the weirdness of vegan sugar cookies shaped like little frogs…)

It should never take four hours to fold all the clean laundry. Letting it go until there’s a pile of clean clothes the size of Everest in your bedroom is just not good. (With four people’s clean clothes all done at once this is less of an exaggeration than you might think.)

It is not selfish to put your own mental health and well-being ahead of the feelings of others, even if they are relatives and harassing you about your attitude. But it sure is difficult. Especially when they gang up on you.

 

And that’s it so far. But it’s only Tuesday. I’m almost afraid to see how the rest of the week goes.