Whenever you’re flipping out or just having a bit of a “moment”, the tendency is to jump in right away and search for the way out. And when you don’t find it, you feel more annoyed, more frustrated, more helpless. It happens even to those of us who have been working on these issues for years.
Hanging out in the waiting room of my doctor’s office the other day, I meant to catch up on some work. Instead, I got distracted by a handout called “The Top Ten Ways to Calm Down and Get Rid of Stress”. Or something like that. I don’t remember the exact wording, but it was definitely ten and definitely calm.
Gaaaaaaah! You’re barely two minutes into the conversation and all of a sudden you’re in a fight. Or not in a fight, but irritable enough to get in one. The words have somehow gotten twisted together. Everything is stuck. The thing you meant is getting tangled up with the thing your partner in Miscommunication 101 thinks you meant. You’re in a plonter as they say in Yiddish. You know, a confused, messy web-like disaster. A pain in the tush of a mistake of a hard time.
I finally got around to watching Word Play last night — a 90 minute homage to “puzzle master” Will Shortz and his wonderful world of crosswordsmithery. “Finally” because everyone I know has already told me at least once to see it.
When you get that “green light feeling” about something and you run with it, good things happen. The rest of the time, however, you second-guess yourself until it’s second nature.
Director of the Playground.
With duck.
Cure your freak-out moments so you can get more done! Visit The Destuckification Station.
Beat the habit without beating yourself up. Plus Magical Procrastination-Dissolving Fairy Wonder Dust.
Even when we know they’re just being horrid because it’s the only way they know to keep us safe, it still sucks when your monsters are around. The Monster Manual tells you exactly what to say so they will stop bugging you.
An event at which you get crazy amounts of stuff done in a short period of time, with support, love, hilarity and massive destuckification. The schedule is right here.
