worst car-ma ever

[mamajoan]

So my car broke down yesterday, right? Requiring me to borrow my mom's car so as to get everyone home. Yeah, so guess what broke down today? *facepalm*

This morning's refusal of mom's car to start was entirely, 100% my fault. alas. Huge props and thanks to metafrantic for popping over to bail me out.

On the plus side, thanks to all that waiting around for tow trucks, I finished reading Children of God which, it's fairly safe to say, rocked my world. Perhaps I shall write more about that later.

I need new things to think about while I'm lying there nursing Ruthie to sleep. I have difficulty keeping myself from thinking up disaster scenarios (a kid dying, me being mugged, etc.). For a while there I was occupying my brain by working out the mathematical notation system that would be used by the aliens in a story that I will probably never have time to actually write (but have been plotting for years now). Tonight I tried mentally reciting poetry, but couldn't get past Shakespeare's #48 ("How careful was I, when I took my way/Each trifle under truest bars to thrust" heh heh, she said "thrust") and that old cliche, the Road Less Traveled or whatever it's called ("I shall be telling this with a smile, somewhere ages and ages hence..."). Where's Edna St. V when I need her?

What do you do with your brain when there's nothing to do but think?

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so I'm not the only one....

[lightningrose.livejournal.com]

one of my projects with the cog behavioral oriented psychologist was how to stop _mentally planning my spouse's funeral_ while nursing. seriously. I was thinking I was the only one crazy enough to use what should theoretically speaking be a _peaceful_ time making my brain work on disaster scenarios....

Re: so I'm not the only one....

[downwardlashes.livejournal.com]

Wow, maybe it's some response set off by the nursing hormones or something. I think about what to do if someone dies, a murderer breaks in, etc. Then I ask my husband what he would do and he's like, "WTF? I don't want to think about that!"

[ww1614.livejournal.com]

Road Not Taken. :)

I ship. It's the only thing that keeps me sane.

[mogwar.livejournal.com]

When I'm not panicking about my to-do list, I count backward in foreign languages.

[downwardlashes.livejournal.com]

I like to do long division.
Part of our nurse to sleep routine is me getting my book. I used to have to hide it because it would distract Caspian, but now as we're going through the routine, he says "Booooook!!" and won't let me go to bed without it.