Oh What a Mad, Frantic, Fabulous Life I Lead!

Oh What a Mad, Frantic, Fabulous Life I Lead!

Well, everyone, you will just be so jealous you won’t be able to stand it when I tell you what I’ve been doing these last few days.

Let’s start with this morning. Oh, my dears, you won’t believe it. I started cleaning out the room that used to be my office that has been, in the last couple of years, that room where you put things you really don’t need but you maybe need to keep and it all needs to go somewhere.

But I really don’t need old bank statements, poker chips, Betty Friedan’s second book (which no one read – hardback, remaindered for 1.99). I can dump guides to pregnancy (irrelevant – for obvious reasons), Chicago, and Los Angeles (similarly outdated and irrelevant). Audio books on cassette tapes, and the empty boxes that held I-pads and I-phones. It is hard to let those go because they are great boxes.

There were old mysteries and romance novels, textbooks and charity cookbooks, even the complete collection of the “Pogo” comic strip (in hardback). I even found a 1983 newspaper clipping of how to make perfect pie crust in a food processor.

Let’s not even discuss the suitcases and tote bags, and too many binders of notes from long-ago seminars.

I am not even a hoarder. At least, I could never be on one of those shows. This stuff was more or less neatly put in bookcases, except for the stuff on the floor.

Fine. Be judgmental. I’ve been sick.

I’ve also been to the gym, a lot. I seem to have hit a plateau, so I have been reading those articles about “shocking” your body by redesigning your workout. Doing it. Not as shocking as you’d expect.

Went to the grocery store for some miniature marshmallows. They’re still just as small as you remember them.

Conversations revolve around how hot it is. Seriously though, it’s July in Texas. This probably doesn’t need to be discussed. Similarly, the mosquitos seem to be larger than last year but that seems unlikely.

What a blessing all of this madcap excitement is! Thank God I’m doing the sorting through these old bits and pieces, laughing at what we keep through the years. So much better than having the ones I love doing it, crying because I’m not with them to help clean up the mess.

I love you all, more than you will ever know.