… raining, it’s pouring…

What are some of the most stressful things in life? Job changes, relationship changes, illness or death of family members, illness of self….

I am currently working with:

*new job stress
*moving lots of miles away stress
*sick family member stress
*head cold-PMS combined stress
*financial stress - good grief, I need a wardrobe! a washer-dryer! probably a new car! eek, my student loans are nearly due! I need to write a check for $1650 for rent/deposit! eek!
*relationship changes - everyone I know is here. I’m moving there.

I’m tired now just looking at that. And the long, long list of tasks I must accomplish in the next couple of days, such as “putting everything in boxes” and “reserving a uhaul.”

ETA: well, the truck is reserved, not everything is in boxes, but I have officially bought more clothes than I have ever bought in one go before. What can I say — every single store is having a huge sale! Bought a pair of shoes, got another for 88 cents. Bought half-off camisoles, half-off shirts, forty percent off slacks, and o-m-g a sweater that I had to have even though it wasn’t on sale. Never mind it’s still too warm to wear it yet.

Also, my feet are big, and most normal shoes don’t come in my size. I wasn’t the only one asking for ’surfboard-type huge’ at the counter, either. We who have huge feet ought to be covered under those statutes that supposedly protect minorities or something, cause it’s just not fair that we have to pay the ‘abnormal’ tax, i.e. go somewhere that charges three times the price for decent shoes, just because we’re not a size 7. Because I don’t think we’re abnormal! We’re a couple of generations out from foot-binding and bad one-size-fits-all-whether-it-does-or-not boots, our feet are allowed to meet their fullest potential, and the shoe industry needs to … er… get in step with the times.

Stopping ranting now, going back to boxing things.