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Notes to Self: part two

June 25, 2012 by Joy the Baker 65 Comments

My Notes 1, page 26

so continues the series on Joy the Baker.  I make notes to myself.   How to live.   How not to live… and how it’s ok if I burn the cookies.  

YOU’RE ALLOWED a maximum of one freak-out per month.  After said freak-out, get it together… call your mom, text your sister, walk it off, dance it out, massage it away, buy a new lipstick, fax your accountant, write your grandmother, and eat as many Tootsie Rolls as necessary.

Exceptions include:  the nine months of pregnancy, tax season, and any month that contains one or more days of jury duty.

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  1. laura

    September 19, 2012 at 9:03 pm

    Love it!

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  2. hawaii girl

    August 29, 2012 at 8:42 pm

    I think there should be a rolling freak out, like you get one a month and there is an extra, the thirtieth than can be used at any time!

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  3. SoyB

    August 21, 2012 at 7:34 am

    I love this… thank you. I always feel guilty after a freak-out and I needed to read this.

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  4. saba

    July 1, 2012 at 8:03 pm

    May or may not have just ended freak-out sesh (upcoming grad school exam!) with excessive quantities of chocolate and a visit to your site to cheer me up. :)
    now to get working!

    Reply
  5. Willow

    June 29, 2012 at 11:23 am

    Haha – brilliant! I love those exceptions, but you should probably add any month that averages over 95 degrees F. I’m starting to freak out, and not for the first time! :P

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  6. terri

    June 28, 2012 at 2:54 pm

    Even when you’re going to turn 60 in a couple of months (yikes!), you’re still allowed a freak-out now and then. You just have to time them so you’re not having one when one of your grown children is – especially your daughter who is thirty with four kids under seven and a beautiful wonderful mom. I think she should be entitled to at least one freak-out a week.

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  7. Dayna

    June 27, 2012 at 9:17 pm

    p.s. this font you are using for your new web design totally makes my commenting look so super intelligent and neat! even if I write crazy wackko things that usually look ugly…. like “bulbous” or “cunningulus”…. lol both totally ug’s looking words

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  8. Dayna

    June 27, 2012 at 9:12 pm

    Hey Joy! I totally love you (long time reader, and podcast listener-to). Anyway, this post is so essential. Especially with school (I’m a student), with my living at home, and with my lack of any transportational device (even my bike is in the shop!), my freak outs have become a little more deep-felt than usual. But I must remember: I am ALLOWed to have a freak out every once in a while. They are totally healthy. But only once a month! No more than once. :)

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  9. Heather {ModernMealsforTwo}

    June 27, 2012 at 2:08 pm

    I like this. I kind of want to print it and hang it in my cube at work.

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  10. elena @ randomly happy

    June 27, 2012 at 1:55 pm

    I loved reading ‘you’re allowed’.

    Life cane get complicated.
    Life can be hard.
    Life is (sadly) not always filled with sugar.
    Freaking out is totally allowed.

    https://www.randomlyhappytoday.blogspot.co.uk

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