Beth,
You know - On many, many (x1000) days ......(thinks hard.......) YEARS that those same words have come out of my mouth (chuckles for a moment) I sit back and hear a comedy skit from I'm not sure where the song "LOWERED EX-PEC-TATIONSsssssss" comes into my head. For the life of me I'm not sure if it was Benny Hill, or Saturday Night Live......but it kept me chuckling so that I didn't smack the smart (replace that with smile kindly) off of one of the people in my house).
On those days when I wanted to "smile kindly" at someone in my house due to "LOWERD EX-PEC-TATIONSssssss" I wondered if I would make it through, because despite "THAT" there were bills that weren't paid, bosses that I wanted to bury.....I mean 'TAKE OUT TO LUNCH' (we'll use that) and family members that made me raw as diaper rash.....no, no, no....."needed my understanding and love" (I'll replace with that). Yup....thinks a moment ......okay. Then there was usually a postal worker or two that needed to be jacked up against the wall and flogged ahh "I mean 'spoken to with a kindly word' regarding not delivering my mail on time because they decided to do their route backwards that day due to boredom, or a teacher that I wanted to stuff in a trunk.....er......"have a word of prayer with" over my childs behavior in school, because Dude was once again being a complete incorrigible child (she should have used my thought process and then he would have been - a frisky and high spirited child - not?).
So whenever the world is how did you say it? "Hitting the skids" just euphemise your thinking. Your world isn't hitting the skids. No, no, no. Instead it's sliding into a new realm of uncharted territory,headed towards a new adventure where you could possibly end up the Queen of the world and.....'smile kindly at, 'take people out to lunch' that need to be 'understood by your love' and "spoken to with a kindly word', or ' have a word of prayer with', and if that doesn't work? Being the Queen? You can always - Smack the smart off em, bury them in an undisclosed location if they give you a rash, jack em up against the wall and flog them, and then toss em in a trunk -----because YOU are the Queen.
(Um.....Beth - Day dream over.......BETH? BETH????? tap, tap......BETH???????)
And THAT's how you get over.......hitting the skids - if EVEN for five minutes - then you reset your brain - and smile because your friends are nuttier than you.....and now you know YOU are the sane one. mwha hahahahah.
Hugs and love
Star