Oh yes Maria, I predict you would love the live-action Tick. It's HI-larious...and sweet...and smart. Hey...just like YOU!

It really does. You can't be the diva when the obvious studs on the team are cheerful, work hard and are fun to be around.

Nothing looks worse than being a dick around heroes.

Incidentally, Ms. Bug....

I’m also having a hard time figuring out when to push myself and when to give in.

This is not a binary choice. It is for perfectionists, but that leads to Stress Or Failure situations.

Just as there is Good Enough parenting, there is also Good Enough vw bug. (I almost said "Good Enough Buggery" - but really that's not a place where you want to lower your standards.)

Actively recruit two new players who are better than almost everybody else on the team and are both easygoing and cheerful.

Not possible. Rosters are locked on December 31st. Players can drop, but no one new can be added. Besides, this is an A team. The better players are all at the AA or AAA level. The team captain is a great kid, but he's quiet. He needs to get comfortable in his own skin, which is tough for a 14 year old, and have a players only meeting that means something.

Oh! Hec! I'm in a Change My Hair mood - and may actually go through with that in a week and a half. So, what would you rec, knowing that I like to keep at least enough length in the front to flip into my face AND that it has to be flexible enough to survive being under a helmet (whenever I get my bike back)?

I will research this. Keeping in mind the always valuable aesthetic principle: Juliana's Hair Should Aspire To the Condition of Anime.

If you feed Sass canned food, you might be able to spread some of the canned food into a baking pan and bake or dry it in the oven, then cut it up into little chunks to use as training treats.

Oh my jesus, can you imagine the smell?

Sorry. I mean, I'm sure it works, but I just full-body shuddered right about out of my chair.

My *own* opinion is that your activity load right now sounds high for ANY adult, not just you.

Word.

this.

also? good on you for speaking up here.

The team captain is a great kid, but he's quiet. He needs to get comfortable in his own skin, which is tough for a 14 year old, and have a players only meeting that means something.

Emmett is not the quiet type, but last year when he was the best player on our regular season team I asked him to be a mentor for the younger players. And that really added a lot to the team's character. He went out of his way to sit with the younger kids when they were crying or frustrated and just pat them on the shoulder. So, there are quieter forms of leadership too. And I don't think Emmett would have done it if I hadn't nudged him that way, but it really brought out a good side of him.

Oh! Hec! I'm in a Change My Hair mood

OH! Hec! I meant to mention that having waited too long since my last cut...months and months and months...I had fun with an exacto knife the other night. It really was amusing and the outcome was not nearly as bad as one might imagine. In the end, however, I just couldn't manage the back so I went to a new hair person for a fix-up.

I took the photo of the cut you recommended last time, and bless her, the cutter hipped me to the horror that is my cow-lick farm of a head. She did, however, do a quite good job of adapting that design to my issues.

So now, I have a nice new cut and am using the short hair goop Toddson gave me.

The only downside is that when I went to henna my hair yesterday, I dropped the bowl on my beige office carpet. Blergh. After Natures Miracle and Shot Spot, the area is still plenty green. Not sure what other spot remover might work.

This is not a binary choice. It is for perfectionists, but that leads to Stress Or Failure situations.

Just as there is Good Enough parenting, there is also Good Enough vw bug. (I almost said "Good Enough Buggery" - but really that's not a place where you want to lower your standards.)

You're right. It's not, but it is something I have to consider. It's a dialectic, I guess.

And I do cling to the Good Enough theory. Quite a bit actually. My therapist and family are quite familiar with it. I think this time around I got stuck in how this is just a reoccurring pattern rather than being able to see it as just this situation.

Ok. I'm off to get pricked. Thanks, guys.

Teppy has reached Scrappy-levels of wise.

Unpossible!

Fix my life, please?

(1) There is no spoon.

(2) Get you some live-action Tick and watch it, STAT!