Posts Tagged ‘life’s lessons learned’

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

—Douglas Adams

So I’ve been trying to watch what I eat and not snack all the time.

Tuesday afternoon I got up from my desk chair and started towards the kitchen to get a snack and thought to myself,”You know, you aren’t really hungry. You don’t need a snack. Ignore the craving.” So I immediately spun around to return to my chair but tripped and lost my balance and fell HARD. And I mean hard!

The unlucky corner

The good thing is I didn’t fall flat on my face. The bad thing is that instead I was stopped by the force of my jaw hitting the corner of my Expedit. Wow, that hurt. I am very lucky I didn’t break my jaw or some teeth.

I do have a nice big bruise along my jaw line and a lot of swelling, along with a fetching impression of the corner of the Expedit— seriously, there is a 90° angle now impressed into my jaw.

But I was not the only one to come out with battle scars: the Expedit now has a rounded corner.

So the moral of the story is clear: while it is healthiest to resist snacking, vacillation is the real enemy. Also: beware of unwieldy footwear:

It’s been quite a year…

It started out quiet enough, but that all changed in June.  First the accident, then the months living with my parents, the endless medical tests, the eventual diagnosis and treatment, and—once I moved back to my apartment—adjusting to a much constricted way of life.

But today I bought:

It’s a scary new world.  I’ve been strangely hesitant to get back out there and drive after 6 months of not driving. I hope that fear goes away with time.  I’m not sure I’ll ever be up for a long road trip again.

I’ve been kind of proud of my self-sufficiency and comfort-level with the bus, though I know the “comfort” aspect of it would disappear once the bitter winter finally arrives. But I have also depended on my selfless family and friends for many rides as well.  Thanks!  You’re the best!

Although it’s been so crazy, I think this is one of the best years I’ve had.  Part of it is gratitude for not injuring or killing anyone else or being seriously injured myself.  Whether it was luck, a guardian angel, or merely chance,  to have emerged with just a few scratches is a miracle.

Living with my parents those first months was wonderful too.  It’s for precisely that reason that I moved back to Minnesota: you can depend on family (and they can depend on me too!).  They never let me feel like a burden.  And, although I wasn’t expecting it,  it was really nice to not live alone for a while after so many years.  (Plus Mom spoiled me with home-cooking!)

All in all, a very good year.

So…….what should I name the car?

When throwing a bag of trash into the communal dumpster, be sure your keys are in your other hand, or in your bag, or in your pocket, or on the ground, or basically anywhere that is NOT the hand tossing the garbage; otherwise you may find yourself joining the flies in the dumpster rooting through some really nasty stuff in search of said keys.

This is an especially good thing to keep in mind during particularly hot spells or when it is almost garbage day and the dumpster is very full.

It is possible to eat too much watermelon.

Taking the stairs instead of elevator to your appointment on the 13th floor might be a good idea exercise-wise, but it is not a good idea if you want to walk with any sort of normalcy for the rest of the day.