I’m feeling a little stressed today - although my freelance load is picking up, I’ve still got to show up at work during the day. It makes for some close deadlines and this constant feeling that I should be doing something other than what I’m doing. And so today I found myself “pulling Hilarys” at even the smallest things.
Here are a few things that made me well up today - things that I would usually ridicule someone else for almost crying about:
- A commercial about a hospice. Violins and the fragility of life were involved. Fair enough.
- Ordering New England clam chowder and receiving Manhattan clam chowder. While this would normally be seen as a simple misunderstanding, especially considering we were in Manhattan, tonight I treated it as if the waitress was being an unfeeling regional-ist whore. Fair enough?
- Ben teasing me.
- Ben saying something neutral to me.
- Ben saying something nice to me.
- Ben asking me if something is wrong.
- Looking at the falling snow. It was so beautiful! Sniff, sniff.
- Looking at a picture of an email forwarded to me that featured a dog with a heart-shaped brown spot on it.
- Not looking at a picture of an email forwarded to me that featured a dog with a heart-shaped brown spot on it, but merely thinking back on it.




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February 12, 2008 at 8:16 pm
emiry
hang in there! I go through this emotional drop-of-the-hat about every 6 weeks, or sometimes more often. I’ve accepted it as near-normal, or normal for me.
now I gotta run off to my own freelance duties that stress me out every week because I work a day job!…
February 12, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Liana
Dude! It’s the WORST when all you want is New England Clam Chowder and you get the Manhattan kind. I didn’t even know any other kind existed until I was in college.
That is SO a good reason to well up, esp. when you’re stressed and only the *perfect* food will do.
February 12, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Liz Hoens
Oh Sarah, I laughed so hard I had tears streaming down my face when I read this! 3 more days!!
Btw, tomorrow, I’m pullin an Aswell….
February 12, 2008 at 11:48 pm
LenaB
Ah, that puppy is so cute… and the Manhattan/New England clam chowder mix-up? That’s a big deal!
February 13, 2008 at 12:42 am
Diana
Oh, I hate those days!
I once started to cry over a bread commercial that featured a song with the lyrics, “I don’t love you much, do I? Just more than all the stars in the sky. I don’t love you much, do I? Well, I think you hung the moon and that’s alright.” I didn’t know it was about bread until the end of the commercial, at which point I did a mixture of laughing and crying b/c I couldn’t believe I was that pathetic.
Isn’t that Manhattan chowder red? And was it the chowder dilemma that Ben was teasing you about? I would totally cry about both. You have simple needs that aren’t efficiently being fulfilled. Then you’ve got this man that’s supposed to understand you and at what seems to be ONLY time you ever need him to back you up, he slaps you in the face…figuratively speaking. The hellishness is almost over. Grab a pudding cup, throw on your magic kicks, and fart in the face of authority b/c you’re halfway out the door, sister!
February 13, 2008 at 8:59 am
the milk maid
Um, is it bad that I got all misty-eyed just reading about it all?
February 13, 2008 at 9:52 am
ape
This is off topic but perhaps smile worthy.
I daydream about making a really funny joke about your last name every time I read your blog, but I can never get the timing down.
“YOU MIGHT ASWELL!”
And then I think you’ve probably heard that as many times as I’ve heard, “USE THE SCHWARTZ!”
February 13, 2008 at 10:07 am
clearlykels
Thanks for stopping by my blog.
Nothing used to make me cry. Now, I cry at anything that involves love of siblings, mothers dying of cancer, people sacrificing for children. The list goes on and on. Oh! Dogs at shelters. wow, I could go on and on. I have had the kind of days where the wrong soup can just be that last thing that puts you over the edge. That is when I have to go hide on my couch for a while.
February 13, 2008 at 11:57 am
bpd
I misted up the other night thinking about an old “Saturday Night Live” sketch. That’s 100% true.
And it couldn’t have happened at a weirder time either. I’ll explain later.
February 14, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Kay
You’re crying over a bread commercial??!!! Yeah, you’re lame, sister. haha!
February 14, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Abbey
I cry at that stuff, too, but I’m pregnant…anything you’d like to announce?
Seriously, though, we all have those days. (I just have them a bit more frequently now). Hang in there!
February 14, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Diana
Damn it, Kay. At least I can tell a bra from a squirrel. Haha! (Inside joke.)
February 23, 2008 at 12:10 am
Sarah B.
ape–Whenever I tell people about how awesome this blog is, I say, “…and her name is Sarah Aswell. No, I mean, that’s her last name. Aswell.”
February 27, 2008 at 12:22 pm
jaime
ur dog is sooooooooooooooooooooo cute. i want it! that heart shape is soooooooooooo cute!!! ooohhhh!