Lessons.

You know what's better than spending half your monthly salary on the plumbing in a house you just want out of?

Waiting for 7 hours for the plumber to show up to plunder your checkbook.

Maybe a delicious cookie will helped me pass the time. Or a liter of bourbon.  And I don't even like bourbon.

We all know what a whiner I am. How I enjoy torturing myself with the worst case scenarios.

You see the problem is, for the last 4 months I've been on edge knowing things could go wrong. Things could go wrong and all the hopes I have for the next year would crumble. I knew I could be sitting on the sofa debating a bourbon (I don't even like it!) at 2:22pm on a Tuesday while waiting for the proverbial plumber to come take our money. I knew that scenario would make me very unhappy and so it kept me awake because I didn't want it to happen.

And now it's happened and you'd think I may be thinking to myself: "Wow, I spent all that time worrying this would happen and now it has and I wasted all that energy worrying about it. Because did worrying about it stop it from happening? Did it prepare me for this? Did I make sure the bourbon was stocked in the house?"

No. Not at all.

Will this stop me from wasting time worrying about all these things in the future? No.

Because I never learn.

Besides, when the furnace dies I am absolutely certain there aren't enough baked goods and alcohol to carry me through. I better start worrying about it now.