STRESS!

As I write this while sitting on my couch, the rain is falling, thunder is crashing, my cat is waiting for me to get my laptop off my lap so I can pet her, and my body is buzzing with stress! I can’t believe how much I feel at this moment, and it seems there is nothing I can do to stop it.

I’m throwing an ice cream party that is a whole week away and the details will not stop popping into my mind! It seems like such a simple thing to throw an ice cream party. I thought it would be, but nothing I do is ever simple. I always have to throw in some extra challenges just to make myself crazy.

So here are the challenges I threw in for myself this time:

1. I put the wrong date on the Evites! I felt sick when I  suddenly realized my mistake just an hour after sending them!

2. I am making 14 flavors of ice cream. Currently 4 can fit in my freezer and 4 can fit in the freezer at school. Where am I going to put the other (pause as I try to calculate how many more flavors are left) 6 flavors?!! Well, I’ll either be roping some friends into this or eating a pound and a half of salmon over the next few days.

3. Also, I am making 14 flavors in 8 days. I don’t think it’s possible, but I refuse to give up.

4. I’m also co-in charge of the art show at school. The art show is in three weeks and entails collecting recycled materials, brainstorming each classrooms project, buying the materials, trying to delegate what needs to be done when I don’t quite know what needs to be done, formatting documentation, working with the teachers in my room to make our own art projects, reminding teachers when things are due, hunting them down for their stuff when they miss their deadlines, coordinating volunteers, finding volunteers.

Yes, I’m stupid. Why!!!

The tragedy of the situation is that I am terrible at the minute details. Which leads me to obsess over these tiny details.

And by the way, Goat Cheese ice cream with roasted cherries is fabulous!