Nevergirl’s

In second grade, I had the best penmanship. Today, I see what I write and I despair. This may sound crazy to you because we live in a world run by touchpads and keyboards, but I love to write by hand; and I’d rather do all my writing in a penmanship I’d love to look at in years to come.

And so, every month, I make lists. I do it to fill the notebooks I love to collect and at the same time, give these good ‘ol fingers some practice. This is the list of things I REFUSE to do, which I wrote on one of my notebooks. I think I wrote it a year ago; the list amuses me now.

1. Give up hoping the hub and I can go on European cruises one day.
2. Stop my singing the moment I hit a wrong note.
3. Replay conversations in my head and wish they could have ended differently.
4. Cave into the urge to buy pretty shoes I won’t ever get to wear because they’re too big.
5. Stub a toe.
6. Obsess over the idea that I’m getting dumber every year.
7. Stand on our weighing scale and shaking my fists at the sky.

I’d like to do that now – shake my fist at the sky. I just stood on the scale and what I saw made me want to howl, “Whyyyyyyyy?”

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