This isn’t a real post because work has decided to take over
my life. So this is more just thinking out loud, which will likely give you a
glimpse into why you should feel better about yourself because you’re not me.
Ok, so we all know that I’m not someone for which “life in
moderation” is really a motto, right?
Example: last night, before CB got home, I ate so much
peanut butter on a spoon that I couldn’t finish my dinner because my stomach
was full of delicious, crunchy peanuts.
Me, holding stomach: “Why do I do this to myself?”
CB: “Eat peanut butter out of the jar?”
Me: “No, that’s normal. But why do I not know when to stop?”
CB: “I don’t know, but it seems to be a trend.”
Which prompted me to remember to tell him that I’d already
mentally decorated the apartment we haven’t gotten yet, complete with twinkle
lights for the balcony at Christmas and the “perfect place” for the
jack-o-lantern at Halloween.
Luckily, he’s not new here, and so he humored me.
I mean, I’m not sure how normal adult brains work, but mine tends
to acknowledge rational thought and then throw that right off to the side so I
can get on with obsessively, excessively thinking about things I have little to
no control over. Like, we won’t know if we have this apartment, officially, for
a few more weeks. But since things currently look moderately to decently good
in our favor, I’ve decided that I should start picking out paint samples for
the bedroom and figuring out which new scratching post would fit best in the
corner for Oliver.
And then I remembered that huge trend back in the 90s or
early 2000’s when Oprah was all obsessed with “The Secret” and all you had to
do was make a Dream Board and everything you’ve ever wanted in life would come
true.
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| I'm just guessing here, but I'm pretty sure CB wants a chandelier AND flowers in our bathroom. So I'll just go ahead and pin that. |
Or, at least that’s what I took away from it. Until, of
course, Ryan Gosling totally didn’t show up at my apartment with two tickets to
Turks and Caicos (where our new winter getaway was located), and then I threw
that Dream Board right into the trash.
Stupid Dream Board.
Anyway, this lead me to spending my entire walk to work
weighing the pros and cons of whether or not realizing us in the new apartment would totally will it into truth,
or whether it would jinx us right out of it. And I decided that jinx is dumb
and Dream Boards are where it’s at and so I’ll be creating a new Pinterest
Board tonight solely for our new apartment. Which I think is a completely logical
reaction to maybe or maybe not getting an apartment.
Amiright?
Happy Wednesday!
Makes perfect sense to me. In fact, I am going to do that, too! (Creating a pinterest board for a home I don't have yet in a city I am not living in yet because of a job that hasn't been offered yet.)
ReplyDeleteSee? Nothing wrong with you!
Hahaha makes me feel a lot better! :-)
DeleteI don't think this is that bad - I pin pictures for my "dream house" of which I have no plans for a house in the near-future (like at least 5 years), I have no money for said dream house, and I have no one but me and John to live in this gigantic dream house!!! Half the fun is imagining, in my mind anyway.
ReplyDeleteOf course, meanwhile in our current apartment, the walls are still white and we only hung up about half the pictures ;)
Hahaha so glad you understand! :-)
DeleteDreams are what keep us going! Without dreams, what would we obsess over for countless hours? We would be...bored :) That's my story and I'm sticking to it :)
ReplyDeleteI haven't been to pinterest.....I'm afraid it would be like eating peanut butter from the jar....I wouldn't know when to stop!
ReplyDeleteHahahaha - touche!
DeleteThis seems like the only logical way to go, Becky. I mean... otherwise you'll just be unprepared.
ReplyDeleteAs for Ryan Gosling? There's still time...
Right? That's how I feel, too.
DeleteI hate when you preface it with how I should feel better about myself, because I think exactly like you, so then I get sad (at first) that I'm crazy, but then I remember that you're awesome and therefore I am awesome also. Right?
ReplyDeleteI totally obsessively think about things that don't make sense. And then I freak out about jinxing it. Like if I switch my flight to an earlier flight and then the plane I WASN'T on crashes, I would feel bad. But what if the flight I switched to crashes, so maybe I shouldn't switch at all and then OH MY GOD BOTH ARE GOING TO CRASH! Yes, I'm cray cray.
Make a dream board. Ignore my ramblings.
Hahaha I just laughed out loud.
DeleteI frequently talk about "when we move." In reality, though I haven't even contacted a realtor (or talked to my husband about moving). My vote is that you are completely normal!
ReplyDeleteTotally normal!
DeleteI do the same thing! But with vacations!! I have so many vacations planned, it's a wonder I am able to be at work at all. I think it's fabulous that you have stuff picked out for the new place, because wouldn't it be so inconvenient if you were to get the apartment and had NOT already done all this pinning?? Yes. Yes, it would.
ReplyDeleteOooh, I want to do that with vacations! Good idea! (you're creating a monster).
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