"A Problem Page For All!"

I was in the middle of writing a post, but I pushed a funny key and it got deleted. Argh! I could tear my hair.

To recap:

Computer still broken. Still using Steve's laptop. Getting panicked about job deadline fast approaching and not being able to do my editing on my computer.

Have headache. Been in bad health off and on for months, mostly due to stress of Cherie's illness, I think. Doing a new diet thingy that's supposed to clean out toxins that cause depression. I've been on it for about three weeks and it seems to help, but it's off and on. This morning I burst into tears in the kitchen for no real reason.

I mailed your letter today, Caitsy. It's sort of short and abrupt and bitchy about life and doesn't really answer your letter, so I sincerely aplogise for that! I just can't seem to write decent letters these days. My attention span is zero, and my mood is black today. I'm sorry! I'll try to write a better one next time. I'm sorry not to have answered all your questions, too, but it seemed sort of daunting to the frame of mind I was in. Forgive me?

I want to be president by the time I'm 50. Or 60. These are the things I'm willing to do in order to get elected to political office: wear high heels and make-up, fly in airplanes, get contact lenses, and smarm people. These are things I'm not willing to do: cut my hair, get my teeth "fixed," or have plastic surgery. Do you think I have any shot at the presidency? I mean, seriously, what does one have to sacrifice, as a woman in politics? Hillary Rodham Clinton had plastic surgery; do you think she'd've been elected to the Senate if she hadn't had that done?

I'm reading The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer, and I adore it! Have any of you read Heyer? This is only my second novel of hers. She's really exquisite. I highly, highly recommend Friday's Child.

I have a whole bunch of old credit cards cut into pieces so they can't be stolen and used, and I'd like to make some kind of collage or something out of them to reflect America's obsession with money. Any ideas?

A Writing.Com member whose daughter died of cancer last year just died in a car crash last night. I got an e-mail about it from a group I'm part of here. I didn't know her personally, but I sent her e-mails while her daughter was dying. I'm horrified and somewhat shocked. She leaves behind a 12-year-old son. What's his life going to be like? How can a kid cope with losing first his sister and then his mother? I'll pray for him. It makes me feel lucky. I whine about my life, but good grief, what have I got to whine about?! I have all my family members and friends alive and well.

On that sober note, I think I'd better go. I hope you're all well. Ellie, how are you doing? I haven't heard from you in a while, and I miss you! Fleur, I hope that Chloe and her little baby are doing fine!

Hugs to everbody --

Elizabeth


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