Telling It Like It Could Be
Okay, I also just finished reading The MomsTown Guide to Getting It All
Damn you, Mary Goulet and Heather Reider! You make me think I can and should and most likely will get my act together! You make it all so simple with your plan! You are so empowering! Gah!!!!
After a week like this last one, it seems that if I would just follow the good advice of these lovely ladies, I, too could Have It All. I mean, I initally scoffed a bit, because I am not really a good plan-follower and prefer complacent chewing-of-the-cud on the couch than all this aspiring and achieving of goals stuff.
Even so, I have been chastising myself for not taking the steps to keep the funk at bay. (My son overheard me saying I was in a funk, and he performed a "funky chicken" dance just for me, to a rocked out version of Ode To Joy on the keyboard. How can I be in a funk with that kind of action?)
The steps? They are all neatly organized in The MomsTown Guide to Getting It All
Comments
And when you've finished looking at it, can I pretty please borrow it?
or is it something I should have of my very own?
Posted by: Carmen | October 18, 2005 3:27 PM
OK, you've convinced me. My copy's in my cart. Mommy makeover time!
Posted by: Mary | October 18, 2005 5:51 PM
I just luv how much everyone in your house dances. Can you come visit and do some kinda anti-anxiety voo doo dance at my house? The funky chicken will work well too.
Posted by: cgarrett | October 18, 2005 7:21 PM
Is there an abridged version for just getting half of it.. and I can work on the other half later?
Posted by: Holli | October 18, 2005 9:13 PM
Whoa! Look at you! You sure finished a lot of book reading as of late!
Is there a 28-Year-Old-Just-Finally-Starting-to-Get-Her-"Real"-Life-Together Guide to Getting It All too?
If so, I'd like a copy.
Posted by: Miss Jackie | October 18, 2005 11:23 PM
I think they should make a book for mothers who work outside of the home called "the mom's book of giving it all back."
Take it! I don't want it all anymore! Haha.
NOW THERES AN IDEA!
There must be a happy medium somewhere. I would like to read the book though. I imagine there are things that could be beneficial to me too. I think I will pick it up.
Posted by: Meghan | October 19, 2005 7:35 AM
Don't feel bad, Jenny. It's October, the saddest month. It was just recently a full moon. I will recite to you the lyrics of "October," by U2.
October, and the trees are stripped bare
of all they wear.
What do I care?
October, and season come, and seasons go
and you go on and on.
Isn't that deliciously melancholy? Don't you love it? Embrace the funk, child. Wallow in it. Pour PSL on it. It will pass, and it's the funks that force us to examine life and usually make some small improvements. Funks are catalysts.
Plus, based on your blog, I'd say you're fairly sanguine and will pull through with no trouble. You should move to KC and pull me out of mine occasionally - I am more of a melancholy person in general and tend to dwell on the atrocities of the world more than necessary!
Posted by: Dorothy | October 19, 2005 1:04 PM