(My little sister, Melody, about four years ago)

I found a great word today - slubberdegullion. It means "wretched slob". It's not the meaning of the word that fascinates me, but just the fact that there is a word that contains "slubber". It makes me laugh every time I think about it.

I am happy to report that the quality of my life is much improved from my last blog post. Not "absolutely wonderful" yet, but it is at least "good" now.

Again, too hot for tea. Maybe I need to find a summer equivalent of and start a new blog! Tell me what you think:

The Lemonade Snob

The Popsicle Snob

The Otter Pop Snob

The Ben and Jerry's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream Snob

The Frozen Chocolate Snob

The Ice Water Snob

Unfortunately, I do not feel knowledgeable about any of these topics to the extent that I would start a blog on them, or even write a blog post on them.

I am in the process of purging from my home a great deal of unnecessary. I have a large pile to donate to the local charity thrift sale (instead of throwing things away - imagine that!) My bedroom has for so long acted as a storage area that it's really the cancerous area in my apartment right now, and I am trying to spend time every day working on it. The other rooms have remained pretty clean this week.

In fact, the only reason I'm writing this post is to procrastinate. I didn't really have anything meaningful to say (obviously). Goodbye!

Stress and Organization

(Photo courtesy of www.openphoto.net)

Oh, my sanity.

Why, you ask, have I not updated this site?

To be honest, I haven't been very "tea" lately. If I were to express my thoughts and feelings and epiphanies I've had lately, they would probably look like this:

OH MY GOSH! WHY ARE PEOPLE SO STUPID?!?!? HAVE THEY ALWAYS BEEN LIKE THIS AND I HAVE NEVER NOTICED?!?!? WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE WORLD?!!! I NEED CHOCOLATE!!!!

As you may have guessed from the above unintelligable capitalized segment of my recent thoughts, I have been more than a little stressed lately.

And it has mostly been too hot for tea.

When you ask someone, "How are you?", what are the responses you most often receive? For me, I often hear "tired" and "busy". Everyone is always tired. Everyone is always busy. Because of this revelation, I have purposely avoided the use of those words in response to that question for years.

It's probably the pride in me, i.e. the rebel. Because it's not that I'm not tired and busy. Please examine the below short conversation and my thoughts:

Me, to friend. "How are you?"

Friend: "Ugh, tired and busy. How are you?"

Me, also tired and busy, but wanting to cheer up friend, or at least to make the exchange feel half positive: "Good! So, have you not been getting enough sleep? Do you have more homework than usual? What's going on?"

Because of this denial in myself, I am the last person to realize if I am stressed. Please let me know if you are the same way so that we can commiserate. theteasnob @ comcast . net

Well. I have had an extremely stressful week. I am happy to say that I am almost, if not fully recovered (which is a good place to be the day before Monday).

I don't have much else to say. I think I will bring a mug, a bit of milk, and some tea to work tomorrow. I desperately need this week to be better than last, and I am confident it will if I take steps to ensure I don't get too stressed.