It's weird. I will use "theater" when I am going to see a movie but "theatre" when I am going to see a performance.

That's what people who work in theatre do, too, fwiw. In fact, some will toss a resume if they see "theater." Or so I've been told.

hey sara, if the work stuff gets too much, guess what you can do? water issues in your house.

YOU'RE WELCOME!

I have also realized that perhaps my anxiety issues have not resolved themselves as much as I have made my life avoid situations which provoke my anxieties. Oy! This is a totally normal thing to do, and it has caused e such agita.

I think it's normal to have some anxiety about doing something you don't usually do and that you want to come out well. Unless that's just me....

Dear Copy Editor,

I really appreciate you pointing out all the instances where you're correcting the narrative so it's grammatically proper, except... the narrative is in First Person POV, so it would stand to reason that it's going to be colloquial and grammatically imprecise in order to give it, you know, flow.

IJS...

Regards,

The Author

HAHAHAH. I've become amazingly zen about that. It's almost funny to me. To the point where I know where the water shutoff is, and if the second floor plumbing died horridly, I'm "Well, I can shower at the Y." And when water comes up through the basement floor during crazy rainstorms, my response is to make sure nothing sits in the puddle and be relieved it's just the water table, not leaking walls.

Buying an old house has made me grow as a person....

The water table is way better than what my mom gets in her basement, which is sewage. Apparently the storm drains are connected to the sewers in her town, and there are now so many people on the sewer that it backs up. She happens to have a low lying house and still has a dirt cellar.

I have also realized that perhaps my anxiety issues have not resolved themselves as much as I have made my life avoid situations which provoke my anxieties.

Don't feel alone, Sophia, that's what I've done. Dealing with my anxieties was causing me too much anxiety.

I think it's normal to have some anxiety about doing something you don't usually do and that you want to come out well. Unless that's just me....

Thank you-- I do want it to come out well, because I feel so bad that my BFF has a B-day party thrown for her, and she still has to arrange everything, because she is the girl. In fact, she still wraps all of her brother's Christmas presents for them (like the ones they are giving to their kids!) except the middle one, who just got married and his wife does it. And she still does her unmarried brother, her mother's and my stockings for christmas. I just want to payher back for all the stuff she does...

Yeah, I'm happy it is just rainwater, not sewage. And btw, the whole growing comment was sarcasm or something. Growing some zen, however... more just confronting my nightmares, and you know what? You live with it.