Making myself feel better

There is complicated stress and uncomplicated stress in my opinion. These two types of stress determine what books I am going to read.

I just returned from Barnes and Noble for my bi-monthly book run. I am a person who seems to be always stressed. I take pills for this as well as try home remedies such as baths and reading.

Uncomplicated stress is usually the type where I can take on a complicated book or series of books. That type of stress is, for example, I hate my boss but am going to stay at my job anyway, or I'm gaining weight, or I had a fight with a friend or boyfriend but everything will be fine in the end stress. For this type of stress you read "The House of Leaves" or take on "The Storm of Ice and Fire" series.

Complicated stress warrants lighter reading. Reading with a maximum of
5 characters and everything is going to be good in the end. Stories that make you laugh, David Sedaris books, or stories that are predictable yet are easy to read, Harriet Evans books.

Right now I am in a period of complicated stress. What am I going to do with my life type of stress. (It's much worse than I am prepared to describe on this blog). So, I must admit readers, I bought another Harriet Evans book. However, I am not going to read it yet.

My book choices today were hopeful. I bought 4 books, 2 uncomplicated and 2 complicated. I am hoping by the time I finish "Fifty Shames of Earl Grey" (a spoof book off the Fifty Shades series and the Harriet Evans book that my stress level will be down enough, or at least leave me in a place of hopelessness that I can take on the complicated books. One was the story of Jaycee, the girl that got kidnapped , and a story of a guy that went to a mental institution for seeing ghosts. (Just an FYI- I have an irrational fear of ghosts).

At least the last two may serve to make
me feel better in that horrible schadenfreude way. That's terrible and I am a terrible person... But sometimes you have to do what you can to keep going.

I leave you with this random image of a thing I found in my desk. It's a gooey fake boob that had a lump in it and
an example of a lump that can only e detected by a mammogram. I preformed surgery at work on this boob and now it is lump free.