How to Feel Better About Any Situation
1. Play THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS at a very loud volume. Dance around the room before your daughter becomes old enough to pronounce your dancing, "Dorky."
2. Dress your daughter as shrimp sushi, put on a kimono, and take her to her father's office for a visit.
3. Finish taking all of the furniture out of the living room and sunroom so we can begin the next stage of work on the house.
(Like putting the fireplace and the built-in's back where they used to be.)
4. Curl up on the couch while the baby is napping, watch reruns of Grey's Anatomy on Tivo and eat Halloween candy.
5. Give in to this stupid attack of sciatic pain from trying to move a radiator and just call someone in to replace those two stupid radiator angle valves standing between us and a warm house. (Note to self: You are now 40 and you have given birth. Your abs are shot. Stop trying to move really heavy things.)
6. Stop feeling guilty about spending the cash on Number 5.
7. Go find a cuddly heating pad for aforementioned back and go back to listening to They Might Be Giants while downing two Tylenol with fruit juice and more Halloween candy.
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Comments
Number 2 is just inspired. I love the thought that must have gone into that one..."Let's take you to visit your father. Hmm, wait a second, I've got an idea! You could be a prawn! And I could be..."
Posted by: Chris Emery | November 1, 2006 2:59 PM
It's my contention that geek dancing has existed since the dawn of human civilization, but only in this enlightened age have we achieved the geek-rock soundtrack to perfectly accompany it. Thank you, TMBG!
Posted by: Josh | November 1, 2006 3:02 PM
Your daughter is so sweet and delicious looking. I want to scoop her up and chew on her arm;-) Deep sigh - want, want so much another baby.
Posted by: Maryam in Marrakesh | November 1, 2006 4:12 PM
Oh my goodness! She is the cutest little ebi nigiri ever!!!
Posted by: girl in greenwood | November 1, 2006 7:36 PM
How cute is that baby?!?! The hair...I love it!
Posted by: chris | November 1, 2006 8:22 PM
Well done! Have you every watched Cold Comfort Farm? It's near the top of my list of ways to feel better about life.
Posted by: Ingrid | November 1, 2006 10:24 PM
Bare Naked Ladies Greatest Hits has very similar effects. Dancing around the kitchen while it plays loudly in the background is what has seen me through many breakups. That and wearing skirts that twirl out in big arks when I spin round and round. Worked when I was two. Still works now.
Good luck on the living room!
Posted by: Emily | November 2, 2006 7:44 AM
Ack what a great costume idea. She's adorable as ever.
Posted by: misschrisc | November 2, 2006 10:32 AM
Love it love it love it. Grace gives 'comfort food' a whole new meaning. (Sorry I missed your visit...would have loved to have a nibble!)
Posted by: jenna | November 2, 2006 12:22 PM
Okay, sadly, I didn't clue into the fact that it was Halloween and therefore there was a reason you and Grace were dressing up. I thought maybe you just did that sometimes. It really is the most adorable baby costume. I might have to steal that...
Posted by: pink | November 6, 2006 3:47 PM
Your daughter is simply an ANGEL! I stumbled upon your webpage and started wondering if we have made a big mistake. My wife and I just purchased a 1950s fixer-upper that needs new ceilings, floors, roof, siding, windows, and bathroom. Not to mention the yard is bumpier than "Drunken Frenchman", one of my favorite ski runs at Winter Park, from my past life. To complicate things, my wife is bearing child, so the pressure is on to get this box livable ASAP. I see that you have survived this far, with a 100 year old bungalow that makes our house look modern. How is your sanity at this point, and do you think it is too late to back out of the deal? The closing is this week?
Posted by: Raul Rodrigez | November 11, 2006 1:07 PM