Today’s dilemmas

Sorry, folks, it's late in the day, my brain is frazzled and my creative energy is tapped out. This is the best of what's left. (Have I sufficiently lowered your expectations? Good. Let's begin.)

Today’s dilemmas
Go to the gym over the lunch hour (No.)
OR
Stuff potato chips into my mouth while I read over grant reports and obsess over how we are going to make payroll at the end of the year? (Yes.)

Leave the office at a reasonable time (No.)
OR
Get sucked into sending out that one last email, no wait, one more, gahhhh, I have to reply to this person before I leave, and… wait. How is it dark outside? (Yes.)

Buy myself a cup of coffee from across the street and enjoy much needed fresh air on the way there (Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.)
OR
Sit at my desk, desperately NEEDING a cup of coffee but not allowing myself to get up until every last thing on my to-do list is done, meanwhile becoming increasingly pissy about the fact that I am too swamped to get a cup of coffee, and stewing about it for a while before realizing that I could have just gotten up and bought the damn cup of coffee in the time it took me to worry/seethe about my workload. (Why, yes, actually.)

Take a deep breath (Ha! No. What are your crazy? I don't have time for that crap.)
OR
Become so absorbed in my thoughts and work that I forget to breathe for long stretches of time until my head hurts and I am generally ornery? (Yes indeedy.)

O.k. you get it. I am a little crazed at the moment. Wish I could say I did any of the first options on the above list today. Instead I am wiping potato chip grease off of my keyboard and reaching for the Tylenol.

In an attempt to end on a positive note, I will list five things that made me happy today:

1) The baby is kicking
2) Chris is making dinner
3) Potato chip grease comes off relatively easy (from the keyboard, not my waist)
4) I didn’t inhale my weight in chocolate this afternoon. (Only because I didn’t have any chocolate at my desk and getting hold of any would have involved actually, like, getting up and stuff.)
5) I do not have a number five yet. Wait, did I just say that NO chocolate was something that made me HAPPY? Now you see that stress makes people hallucinate. Bring on the chocolate.