Tings on Tuesday (or Things on Thuesday), 08-02-26

I was reluctant to join another group and start yet another supposed-to-be-regular thing that would cause guilt because I'm sure to never be regular about it, but more and more people in my neighbourhood seem to be doing this, and I'm nothing if not a follower, so here I am.

Seriously, I think that 99% of the reason I'm doing this is to torture myself. 

I don't know the official term for my condition (nit-pickiness, anal-retentiveness, just plain insanity), but every time I see the title "Things on Tuesday," and like I said, I'm seeing it all the time now, I swear that my respiration and heart rate pick up a bit, my chest gets a little tight, and I can't stop a terrible part of my brain from silently screaming:

"Why??  Why oh why not 'Things on THURSDAY,' for the love of all that is orderly and predictable in the world?!?!  Or simply for the love of alliteration?!" 

(In the past I've done Menu Plan Monday, Wordless Wednesday, Thursday Thirteen, Friday's Feast and Five on Friday... yes, there's a nauseatingly obvious pattern, and it seems without it, I fall apart.)

Of course the rest of my brain realises that this is all quite ridiculous, but no matter how much I try to talk myself out of it, I can't stop this automatic response from occurring every. single. time.

So yes.  Rather than close my eyes to it, ignore it, and move on to more productive things, I must punish my illogical thinking by joining the group and forcing myself to participate in the hopes of reshaping this oddness about my character.

For my first attempt, I'll keep it short:

Things I loathe:

• Irrational thoughts over which I have no control.

Things I love:

• Self-flagellation
• Apparently, I love alliteration, although I didn't know it until the 'things on tuesday' group started.