...being an adult was as glamorous and easy as it looked when I was a kid.
...people would stop trying to make me be serious about funny things.
...the little boys in our apartment complex would stop digging drainage ditches in our flowerbed (not that I've planted anything in them, but STILL).
...losing weight was as easy and fun as gaining it.
...I wasn't so scared to have kids.
...I wasn't so scared that I am going to irreversibly mess up the kids I do have.
...I wasn't affected by other people's moods so much.
...I could find a person who is as desperate for friends as I am who is also not a weirdo.
...food that is good for you didn't taste like dirt.
...Oprah would stop running summer re-runs.
...there was a cool, dry place to store potatoes in Texas...so they wouldn't get maggots in ONE WEEK.
...energy prices would go down so we wouldn't have to turn down our air conditioning during the day when we're not home...thus providing a cool, dry place for potatoes.
...my car had more power and a working windshield wiper fluid pump.
...I felt beautiful, exciting, and desirable instead of blah, blah, and blah.
...once I cleaned things, they would stay clean.
...Beaumont would magically sprout something fun to do.
...I could figure out a way to pipe all of the wasted Beaumont rain to Nevada.
...the Harry Potter movie would hurry up and come out already.
...the new college football season started this weekend.
...Husband was home more and that when he is home he wouldn't have to do homework.
...I liked to cook. It would make life so much easier.
...I wasn't so judgemental - this is a recent development.
...I didn't feel like such an outsider at church and that one of these days I will actually WANT to go like I used to.
...the times when I am the happiest could be freeze framed.
...Rock Band was fun to play by yourself.
...I was better at providing encouragement to Husband.
...someone would hire me for who I am in person, not who I am on paper.
...I would stop having nightmares about being pregnant.
...my hair would make friends with Southeast Texas weather.
...I could see Boaz, our resident lizard. He seems to think Beaumont is too hot to go outside, too.
...I could tell people what I really think instead of being passive aggressive.
...I could make enough money so Husband could just go to school and not have to work 45 hours a week, too.
...lonliness didn't feel like a disease.
1 comment:
Amen to some of those.
Do you need a hug, better yet, do want to Cha Cha Cha?
We should do dinner sometime or get together to play Wii.
I have no idea why you are afraid of kids, you are great with them.
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