Sunday List: The Unbearable Okay-ness of Being

Sunday List: The Unbearable Okay-ness of Being

1. In Over My Head 

2. Beside Myself 

3. Begrudging People with Firm Ideas about What it Means to be Okay 

4. Realizing That I am a Person with Firm Ideas about What it Means to be Okay

5. Craving Pickles But Not Correspondingly Pregnant 

6. Waiting for my Perpetually-Unsorted Laundry to Dry

7. Wanting a Brain-Vacation 

8. Decidedly Not Going to the Gym 

9. Considering Pizza 

10. Wondering Where the Cat Got Off To

11. Setting the Alarm with Vague Dread 

12. Reflecting on the Fact that I May Have Shopping A.D.D.

13. Feeling Guilty about Spending Too Much on My Favorite Perfume 

14. Wondering if Putting Everything in Caps is Diluting the Message

15. Angry About the City-Wide Lack of My Favored Gel Pens

16. Haunted by My Blank Journal

17. Wanting to Watch T.V.

18. Feeling Self-Righteous for Not Watching T.V.

19. Agonizing over How Fat I Look in Pictures These Days, And How Little I am Willing to Forgo Eating to Correct This Condition. 

20. Thinking One Day I Should Buy A House

21. Realizing I am Too Apathetic to Care for an Entire House

22. Wondering if This Means I Need Anti-Depressants

23. Considering What to Do With An Entire Extra Hour

24. Realizing I Have Wasted My Entire Extra Hour

25. Reading “The Watchtower” And Wishing for Solid Answers to Life’s Big Questions

26. Finally Turning on the TV and Watching That Show about People Who Go Around Bidding On Storage Lockers

27. Realizing that in Spite of Everything, I’m Probably, Relatively, Pretty Much Okay. 

Kristen McHenry