If You’re Frazzled and You Know it Clap Your Hands (Clap, Clap)

So yesterday I was all “If you’re frazzled and you know it clap your hands (clap clap),” because I had SO MUCH TO DO. One of the many problems of having a houseguest for TWO WEEKS is that things get behind. Especially if the houseguest is a mentally-draining one who leaves the hostess feeling as if making it through the day with everyone still alive is all anyone can ask of her.

After she left I was all “I need to RECUPERATE” and so I continued to not do stuff. And yesterday it all seemed to wallop me at once. I mean, you should have SEEN the laundry. Astonishing. And bills needed paying, which always stresses me out, and there were dishes in the sink but also a full clean dry drying rack of dishes, and the trash was overflowing, and WHEEEEEEE.

What I thought was that coffee would help. I was feeling tired because of staying up too late the night before, and I was feeling discouraged because of all the yucky tasks ahead of me, and sometimes caffeine can be just the thing for tired and discouraged. Unfortunately there was a little backfire and all I did was add jangled and queasy to the list.

Well, I got the important bills paid, and I took out the trash, and I put a new package of diapers in the thingie, and I did three or four loads of laundry (and please ignore the load of clean laundry sitting in the hallway), and I also managed to check one million times to see if any of my postcards had arrived yet. No. They hadn’t. Where ARE they? I have one traveling in the U.S. that has been traveling EIGHT DAYS. It’s making me antsy. That one’s not too bad because it would only cost me 27 cents to re-send it, except that I had a special postcard that was PERFECT for my assigned person, and so that would be (1) irreplaceable, and (2) a bummer. Worse is the one that’s been on its way to Germany for 28 days. That one is almost certainly lost, and PIFFLE CRAW that’s upsetting. It happens, of course it happens. What’s amazing, really, is that so many of these get THROUGH. I mean, I’m sending a 4×6 flat piece of paper to, like, TAIWAN, and it just ARRIVES there over sea over dell as if by magic. So I suppose that a postcard slipping away here and there is unsurprising.

Edit: Okay, FREAKY: AS I WAS TELLING YOU about the 28-day postcard to Germany, it arrived in Germany.

20 thoughts on “If You’re Frazzled and You Know it Clap Your Hands (Clap, Clap)

  1. Nowheymama

    I’ve been feeling this way, too, with no real reason. Maybe it’s the weather. “Snow? But we need to rake the leaves and mow the grass one more time! Everything’s out of order!”

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  2. SarahO

    I had a postcard I sent to Vietnam I thought for SURE was lost. It actually expired and then after 68 days…arrived!

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  3. Clarabella

    Clap, clap! But that’s pretty much the usual around here, so I’m getting used to it.
    You know, I traveled in Europe in the 1999, to visit family and vacation, and none of my postcards EVER made it across the Atlantic. I happily mailed group after group from parts of Germany and Italy (like maybe 4 or 5 batches of 8 or so), and when I got home, all my friends complained I hadn’t sent any (since I’d promised). What the . . .? Then, two weeks later (AFTER I’d returned), ONE of my postcards made it to it’s destination. ONE. I was peeved.
    Good to hear things have improved in 9 years (duh).

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  4. Jenny

    I am still not prepared for Halloween, have debated just NOT doing the trick or treating thing thinking my kids are too young to realize anyway (am awful), and for some strange reason told my husband to announce to his whole family yesterday that we would be having a party for my daughter’s birthday this Sunday. I try to concentrate but instead keep staring out the window and errr, reading blogs.

    So you are really SO MUCH MORE prodcutive than me and I am impressed.

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  5. Amy @ Milk Breath and Margaritas

    CLAP CLAP CLAP! I’m frazzled over here!

    And now you’ve gone and made it worse I bet. Everytime I read about your post card thing I want to do it, and today I signed up!!

    My first one is a woman from Finland and I can’t wait to find her a postcard! Just what I don’t have time to be fooling with – thanks much there Swistle!

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  6. Caitlin

    Before I saw your Edit, I was going to let you know that it can take So Very Long to ship stuff overseas — I studied abroad in Spain and it would always take forever. Take, for example, a package from my then-boyfriend that took two and a half months to arrive.

    I sh*t you not.

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  7. Vicki

    *Clap, clap, clap, clap, rinse and repeat*

    Super frazzled here because I have work, school, and trick-or-treating to complete tomorrow. And pumpkin carving tonight.

    Does anyone know how much it costs to get yourself cloned? I could seriously use another me just to stay home and clean and cook. The clone has to do without sleep though…

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  8. Eleanor Q.

    Ack! This is me too! I have a stroller full of groceries that need unpacking (don’t ask) and we’re having company so I need to cook and I have a meeting to go to but the kid is napping and hoping he wakes up in time is more stressful than all of the other things. Plus, I really need lunch so that’s making everything seem worse. Ack!

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  9. desperate housewife

    Clappity clap! My MIL was trying to teach me how to do phone marketing for their coffeehouse today and one or the other of my kids was crying/needing something every freaking five minutes! And I was all, “Hmm, phone marketing from home with two small kids. This was BRILLIANT!”

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