16 things

I was tagged by Bridget, one of my favorite people ever.

1) I am so ADD that I can't do anything that requires concentration if there is anything going on around me. Making a phone call, doing basic math, emailing, anything. When E was a toddler, she knew to stop talking when we were going on the freeway, because, "Mama's merging."

2) I think about people, strangers and friends, all the time.

3) I will never be as good a person, or a mother, as my mother.

4) I'm never sure whether my complete lack of ambition is pathological, self-destructive and indefensibly lazy, or heroically sane.

5) I am very sure that my feelings about tidiness are pathological. Sorry, those that live with me.

6) I am regularly astonished by how much I don't know.

8) I still believe all the nice things my parents ever said about me, despite plenty of evidence to the contrary.

9) I get teary 6 or 7 times a day; not from sadness, just goofy tenderness for us all.

10) I could happily sleep 13 hours a day. Sometimes I even do.

11) Despite the difficulties of not having any money, I feel proud of how simply we live (yes, only in comparison to the rest of the US, and of course we could do better).

12) After years of having a subscription to the New Yorker, it's only been in the last 4 or 5 years that I've actually been reading it.

13) I feel grateful everyday for the people I love and the life I get to have.

14) I really wonder what's going to happen.

15) It makes me uncomfortable to find our new president so hot.

16) I don't tell B that I love him ofter enough. B, I love you and am glad for everything.