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.
laura
Love it!
hawaii girl
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!
SoyB
I love this… thank you. I always feel guilty after a freak-out and I needed to read this.
saba
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!
Willow
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
terri
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.
Dayna
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
Dayna
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. :)
Heather {ModernMealsforTwo}
I like this. I kind of want to print it and hang it in my cube at work.
elena @ randomly happy
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.
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