You know that awesome feeling, when you've managed to handle some really difficult aspect of your life, sort of like mastering a jigsaw puzzle:  everything falls into place, without banging them with the side of your fist?  

Yeah, this is NOT one of those times.

Cue vague-blogging:  dude, it's friggin' pouring, the lights are flickering and, well, Imma need BIGGER fists.

What doesn't help:  when you've got friends and family going through some really difficult stuff (some requiring the use of both fists, at the same time, even) and, well, am I the only one about to go all...HULK SMASH!!!...and then want to try and fix, all the things?!?

Guess what?!?  We cannot fix all the things, which is a BIG surprise to no one, except me, obviously.

However, I can share a couple of OTHER stupidly obvious things (that perhaps make no sense to anyone, but me) which made at least one person in my family want to go all...HULK SMASH!!!...on my ass:

• Me, after Garth (not his real name) wanting to know why I would walk from the pool, to the house, in wet feet, while holding 2 pairs of flip-flops: because they're dirty.
• Me, after his trying to make sense of previous bullet: I just washed them in the pool.
• Me, after his giving me a blank stare: the flips flops, I mean.
• Me, after his wondering why I would worry about the flip-flops and not my feet: because they are not my flip-flops.
• Me, after my daughters' realizing it was their flip-flops I was holding: you're welcome!

Just think, that was one conversation and if you giggled or if the side of your mouth turned up, just a little: then my job here is done.

Moral of the Story: we cannot fix, and sometimes it's even hard to understand, all the things and that's okay.

However, if that doesn't work or the next time you have a similar...HULK SMASH!!!...moment,  just be really, really glad you are NOT living with me.

[sound of circkets chirping]

Oh, look...OVER THERE!!!...there's something really, really shiny in the water.

[the sound of our bathroom door, SLAMMING]

Stupid rain, dumbass bladder.

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