Catching My Breath
Ever wish you could just put a bookmark in your life and pick it up later when you catch your breath? I have to admit that'd be a handy feature to have this week.
I am finally emerging from my cocoon of sickness just in time to balance my family's needs, my client's needs, my blog's needs, etc. while trying not to tick. I sure wish I could make that particular disability go away. AD/HD sort of gives me character, but chronic motor tic disorder is just a pain in the posterior.
Anyways, this is just a quick note to let you know a column will be forthcoming any moment now. I've written it two and a half times already, actually. But it's just not quite there yet. It's hard to write about Depression in a funny matter. I know, I know. I said I wasn't going to do that. Well, let me share a quick story with you as a way of giving you insight into how I tick.
I've been dreading the meet with the homeschool supervisor for a few weeks now. What was she going to be like? With my luck she was going to be a humorless, dried out old battleaxe who values punctuality higher than wit and academic performance. I at least had wit going for me, but sometimes I can't be on time to save my life. I've often said I'd show up a day late to the morning of the First Resurrection, but that's a Mormon joke. Don't worry, most of them don't laugh at it either.
Today I received the call and when I hung up and joined my wife in the kitchen, Robyn had only one thing to ask me: "Did she laugh at your jokes?" I protested and asked how she knew I had told jokes, but she just smiled and shook her head at me. The answer was "yes", by the way. My supervisor and I are going to get along just fine. Good thing, too. I have compulsive humor. Give it time. I bet it'll be labeled a new disorder. If only I could guarantee that'd I'd be compulsively funny.
I am finally emerging from my cocoon of sickness just in time to balance my family's needs, my client's needs, my blog's needs, etc. while trying not to tick. I sure wish I could make that particular disability go away. AD/HD sort of gives me character, but chronic motor tic disorder is just a pain in the posterior.
Anyways, this is just a quick note to let you know a column will be forthcoming any moment now. I've written it two and a half times already, actually. But it's just not quite there yet. It's hard to write about Depression in a funny matter. I know, I know. I said I wasn't going to do that. Well, let me share a quick story with you as a way of giving you insight into how I tick.
I've been dreading the meet with the homeschool supervisor for a few weeks now. What was she going to be like? With my luck she was going to be a humorless, dried out old battleaxe who values punctuality higher than wit and academic performance. I at least had wit going for me, but sometimes I can't be on time to save my life. I've often said I'd show up a day late to the morning of the First Resurrection, but that's a Mormon joke. Don't worry, most of them don't laugh at it either.
Today I received the call and when I hung up and joined my wife in the kitchen, Robyn had only one thing to ask me: "Did she laugh at your jokes?" I protested and asked how she knew I had told jokes, but she just smiled and shook her head at me. The answer was "yes", by the way. My supervisor and I are going to get along just fine. Good thing, too. I have compulsive humor. Give it time. I bet it'll be labeled a new disorder. If only I could guarantee that'd I'd be compulsively funny.
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It is a good sign that she responded well to your jokes. At the very least it suggests that you're on the same wavelength when it comes to humor, which is not a bad thing to have in common.
I think my sense of humor is derived from my British heritage or from growing up with a last name of "Cootey". Either one has me horribly bent. :)
I finished the column, but I cannot post it. I'm busy gathering roughs for a client. I've got to get out the door in 30 minutes. Will be back around 5:30pm MST.
Glad to hear that you are feeling better!
I signed up for a home schooling program with the next county over that hooks me up with http://k12.com/ and provides boxes of books and materials. Since we're officially registered with that county we need to have somebody check in with us once a week to see how things are going (there needs to be some accountability for all that free stuff). I was worried about it at first, but it wasn't painful at all. My 7 year old may have AD/HD but it was No Child Left Behind's emphasis on strict attendance that caused me to pull my kids out of public school. We have weak immunities. We get sick ALL THE TIME. We'd use up the 10 unexcused absences by the end of November. I can't afford to visit a doctor for every day my kids are ill just to appease a draconian system. Anyway, don't get me started.
This Utah Online program has so far proven to be just what the doctor ordered for us. And it was a good decision for my kids. My 7 year old is really responding well to the one on one attention.
That's my family!