Obsession? Or organic Prozac? Either way, I love me some lip gloss...It's funny the things that make you feel better. Just little things. These are just the ones that I keep on me at any given time. This is isn't even what I have at home... (evil chuckle) I can't help myself.... but hey, they get used so they don't go to waste and I figure what's a few dollars here and there if means keeping me out of the looney bin? Because sometimes, I can sit and think about things and over thinking is something that comes very naturally to me... If it weren't for things like chapsticks and lip balms shooting that happy feeling through my body once in a while I could go mad. I don't always have access to the things that make me ecstatic i.e. Choni, Harley, Marysu, Ma...my many, many, many members of extended family... So, once in a while, on my lunch I'll venture into Wal-Mart or Target and see what's doin in the lip department. Choni doesn't mind this behavior due to it giving me silky smooth lips. Hah!
This is also one of those things I can control. When life is throwing me to a whirlwind and isn't going in just one direction, I slow it down a little by just sitting down and thinking, "Can't control this and can't control that... but... " and it comes to me. Maybe a new nail polish is the ticket? Or chapstick? My kids make me happy, even when they're being bad...they are being perfectly healthy and bad... I'll take it... I'll reel in that awful behavior reminding myself I am a Mom who gives a shit or two to do so in the first place and I start to feel better...if Harley does what I say? I get a false sense of power of Wonder Woman proportions and then I am the one who needs reeling in ;)
Right about now, I could really use a new chapstick...not really...but YOU know what I mean.
Over the weekend, I cleaned the kids room...again... I have done that about a hundred times. Why? because I can control it. I can control how clean that room is, how everything is organized...
Because I can't control my poor hubby's feelings..I can't control my poor father in law's breathing for him so he can come home and say goodbye to us on his own terms.
So I douched my house :) And then the dog trapsed through the dining room with muddy paws...
It's still there...
I moved on ...
I also love food...I try to keep it a luxury as far as the goodies go...and I try to make my own to keep the "processed foods intake" down in our house. I try to make as much as I can. I make my own frozen waffles ;) But food is supposed to fill us with nutrients, not provide entertainment value. I make a conscious decision each and every day not to find comfort in food, which is hard. But once in a while...I will indulge in an extra Coke. I already bring my own Dr Pepper to work so I don't break my bank buying them individually from work. I DO buy them here though. One of the few reasons I do so: To ensure that the vending machine is here the next day! There are so many things here that we take for granted at my job, I don't want vending machines to become one of them. So every once in a while I throw my $.85 in there and out pops an ice cold refreshment! On the weekends, though...the gloves are off!
Basically what I'm saying is, I'm a simple creature..I'm able to keep it simple by sticking to the small things that bring a smile to my face on a daily basis and sometimes, you can get yourself into a mood where looking at picture of the two most special faces in the world won't do it for you... so...there's always a new flavor of Carmex to bring the good mood in right! Or pens... have I mentioned the pens???
Food for thought: The Simpsons Movie is even funnier at 4:47am...
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