Since December 2007, or whenever we first got to see the video of Randy Pausch giving his ‘Last Lecture’, that has been my mantra when life is kicking my buttocks – ‘brick walls’. I just repeat it to myself over and over and over….

And I’ve been meaning to put some kind of reminder of that to myself, and others who visit, on this blog. I’ll think of something this week and get it up. That one phrase has helped me so much.

I’ve been bummin’ somewhat lately…my mother visited last week, and that was totally awesome! We had a super MEGA BLAST!!! But I generally hit a wall (a brick wall, oh yeah! hahaha!) whenever any of my family goes back home. And I think maybe I was starting to inch toward that icky hole of depression prior to her even coming here.

So I hit a BIG WALL this afternoon, when one thing after was going wrong. (Why in the holy universe does everything go wrong and not work when you’re depressed?! What the crap?!) So yeah, I hit that wall, and I’ve got stuff to do tonight – three places to go…..elementary open house, WalMart to return dumb, stupid keyboard that won’t work, and our marching band’s Haunted Forest. So my thoughts of blowing the world off and crawling into bed with a magazine and book were not something I could actually do.

And that is when I remembered ‘the phrase’. Aaaahh….the phrase!

And then I decided today was rough enough that I needed to hear Randy say it himself! So I got my dinner (yep, early, but, we’ve got Haunted Forest and stuff…) and a nice cup of joe and I’m watching the video.

Aaaahh….

Wanna watch with me?