newly acquired skills
-melting around babies-- tininess=joy -holding my temper and either letting it subside or using it in a productive way: angrily organizing, angrily painting toe nails, angrily doing paperwork and cuing in bureaucratic hellhole (i love collective anger, that's sort of our thing as a region) -breaking down tedious grammar exercises into silly games--I WON! --no sir...you learned *dramatic eyebrow raising* -compromising but not to the point where i lose all sense of self eg, i accept the ugly flower print shirt because of the somewhat interesting cut but the flower print pants are madness i will NOT ABIDE BY. -saying i love you less and showing i love you more. not that way you horny goose. -saying what i think when it's at odds with what someone i love thinks and without it snowballing into some caesar assassination reenactment -waiting, waiting, waiting and accepting that it's waiting that's gnawing at my brain, not some deeply repressed age 2 cookie trauma, not some horrific wrong turn, not my diet and exercise routine but waiting |