Stupid Silly Stuff

Currently I’m reading Carole Matthews’ book “Bare Necessity”. So far it’s very breezy and fun, like Bridget Jones. I must say I prefer this right now to anything deep or intense. Even though Jane Green figures under Chick Lit with her runaway hits “Jemima J” (about a fat girl) and “Mr. Maybe”, she really does not fit the mold. I just read “Bookends” and it was quite a regular novel as opposed to typical chick lit fare. So was “The Dirty Girls Social Club” by Cuban author Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez.

I should have known Matthews would be pure escapist fun as she dedicated the book to Kelly Ripa and all “Reading With Ripa” fans “for making 2002 such a fun year for me”. I guess Ripa gave her book “For Better, For Worse” glowing reviews.

It’s just that right now things are tense family-wise, plus I’m dealing with some heartache of my own and so I can’t really deal with downers. In fact, I had to take a natural herbal anti-depressant just now. It worked right away because even considering the situation, I am doing pretty well so to take an anti-depressant when you’re doing pretty well just means…instant buzz!

It got me so hyped up and happy I decided to do something silly. I got our plaque that hangs on the office wall and features our current staff-of-the-term. It has a place for a picture and the person’s name gets engraved along with the term they got chosen for the honor. Well, I enlarged the ID photo of a man who got hired as a teacher but quit after his first day and did a cardboard “engraving” with his name and the one and only day he worked as his “term”. No one has noticed as of yet except Frances, who saw me do it.
I know this is all very silly but it’s either that or give into one of my dark gloomy moods in which I usually end up doing something like cutting myself. I prefer this. But like I said, I am doing remarkably well and I think it’s my friends’ prayers. Powerful stuff!