My brain is mush, and whenever my brain is mush, you get a list. A mushy list, a listy mush.

1. By the time most of you are reading this, I’ll either be in the middle of my job interview
2. or I’ll be driving home kicking myself for something stupid I said.
3. I’ve picked a mild cold from one of the kids
4. so I’m not as mentally prepared for this interview as I’d like to be.
5. Jordan is accusing Jon Alex for spreading this household virus
6. but Jordan forgets she is known around these parts as Typhoid Mary.
7. She is always asymptomatic
8. yet when she is exposed to whatever’s going around
9. we always catch it.
10. From her.
11. But since she’s a carrier and not, say, Patient Zero
12. she never considers herself to be the source.
13. We had our family Christmahanukwanzaakah over the weekend!
14. Q flew down from DC for a few days
15. and he wanted to watch the kids open their gifts from Santa
16. so he surprised them with a pile of loot on Saturday
17. then flew out on Monday.
18. We spent the weekend in our favorite weekend getaway hotel
19. and I spent most of it reading various accounts of the Sandy Hook sadness
20. which has triggered my anxiety disorder
21. about disasters that happen outside the realm of our control.
22. Ehren’s school sent out an email
23. promising to bolster security
24. but I’m not sure how any of it will prevent
25. a gunman from entering the school
26. through a hole
27. shot into the glass door
28. big enough
29. for him to step right inside.
30. While I am thinking about it
31. even though I have not stopped thinking about it
32. let me do this:
33. Noah
34. Charlotte
35. Jack
36. Olivia
37. Dylan
38. Catherine
39. Avielle
40. Jessica
41. James
42. Josephine
43. Caroline
44. Benjamin
45. Daniel
46. Grace
47. Madeleine
48. Allison
49. Emilie
50. Ana
51. Chase
52. Jesse
53. Mary
54. Rachel
55. Lauren
56. Victoria
57. Anne-Marie
58. Dawn
59. Next week
60. we’ll be hitting the road
61. to spend a few December days
62. with the awesome Louise Ducote
63. and Louise’s family.
64. I can’t wait to see and meet
65. everything and everyone
66. she’s been writing about
67. in her space.
68. Somewhere in this listy mush
69. I was gonna complain about the shitty quality
70. of our surprise Santa iPhone pics of the kids
71. But after listing those Sandy Hook kids and educators
72. I know I cannot complain about much.
73. Please stay tuned for new job news.
74. And pray I do not sneeze on the hiring manager
75. or have boogies hanging in my nose the whole time.
76. Makeup can’t cover boogies.
77. Or this panic attack.
78. But my sweater is cute
79. my shoes are to die for
80. as is the scarf tying the whole look together.
81. I am not wearing a suit
82. so back off about it.
83. Employment: here I come.