the math behind getting away

The more you ‘suffer’  before pleasure  the sweeter the pleasure

also if you suffer you feel you deserve the break more

Friday I woke up at 5:30  jumped in the car to drive to pick up my daughter in Kingston    -15

 and all of her year’s worth of stuff  that needed to be squeezed in our van           -10

trunk was broken on the top                -15

fridge was dripping  -13

there was one of those creepy bugs with all the legs that like moisture that scare me -38

solicited help from strong college boys           +10

fit everything in van              +15

had a brief moment of feeling like a single mom as I saw only dads doing this job   -15

snapped out of self pity in a hurry   +10

dropped some things to new house for next year +5

while dropping stuff at new house checked email and found closest WiFi connection belonged to “dryhumpmylife” starting to wonder about daughter’s future neighbours    -25

almost hit another  car on the highway while changing lanes due to fridge blocking all important blind spot   -10

heart stopped as honking and screeching and swerving ensued   -35

traumatized daughter who does not want to learn to drive because of my example and this only furthered that  example  -30

got a little high from the adrenaline of near crash +10

had lunch on the fly with favourite 18 year old daughter  +20

got to talk with her for 2.5 hours straight   in the trap we call the car +10

covered all topics from boys to booze to barfing to ballet  to books  +10

unpacked car at home -25

packed for weekend away -2

had a brief meeting -5

taught an art class  (love love love it but busy day) +5 and -5

made meals for kids before leaving -10

felt badly for leaving as daughter had just arrived home after year away (what kind of a mom?) -15

snapped out of it quickly thinking moms are better moms after breaks +5

thought about my two girls alone at house as a treat for them +15

thougth about my two girls alone at house (yikes) -20

drove another 1.5 hours due to traffic to get to resort -20

somehow liked all the driving as for once I never got even slightly lost the whole day  +15

totalled hours driving that day as 7.5 hours and felt for commuters and me    -20

arrived to hotel in time for meditation +15

solved problem +5

had a beautiful weeekend +100

Total points I have no idea because I am bad at math but I ended up on the plus side after a FABULOUS weekend – look  out for  my post on why it was sweet