Pull yourself towards yourself!

Ok, I'm sitting on Annelie's foldout couch with ankle-deep snow outside... and have just recovered from hysterical fits of laughter, because it truly was a 50-50 toss-up whether I should laugh (hysterically) or cry (hysterically). (Hysterically was mandatory, not optional.)

I got back to snowy Sweden late last night, had a day full of meetings in Gothenburg today and a plan to travel up to Stockholm with Annelie and some other randon adventurers in a car early tomorrow morning. The best of plans made with the purest of intentions...

And then, the unthinkable happened... On buss #1 on my way from meeting #5 to Annelie (imagine slow buss through slushy snow, dark, cold, talking to Sebastian on the phone about vitamins) I jump off the bus (into the slush, talking to Sebastian about minerals) to change to buss #2 that will take me to A, and I think Hmmm, what a schlepp to drag my big traveling bag through all this slush... and then, suddenly all hell breaks loose...
I'VE FORGOTTEN MY FRICKIN BAG ON THE FRICKIN BLOODY DISAPPEARING -INTO-THE-DISTANCE FRICKIN' BUSS!!
No, no no, the customer care at the transport department is not open at nine at night, no I don't have a car to catch up with the bus, and NO, no knight in shining armour shows up to rescue me...
So, as it sometimes goes with the best of plans... I miss buss #2 in my crazy phoning, stressing- unhelpful running around like chicken with chopped off head.. and decide to walk my anger off to A's house, 30min through the above mentioned cold, dark, slush, in thin-soled Dahab adapted sneakers... Which is how I arrived at Annelie's door, choosing to laugh hysterically... Luckily A and I are the same size in clothes, she has lens fluid and a tooth brush and a sense of humour and another friend will send the forgotten bag to Stockholm (assuming it's been delivered to the lost and found- I'm assuming for now...)

Over a cup of honey-infused Rooibos Annelie placidly asks me so what do you think the universe is trying to tell you tonight... and as usual... I have to throw my hands into the air and say OK, Ok... I'm listening.
For days now I've been stressing about things outside of my control; money, practical issues, future plans... and I f#*k up on something right in front of me, so completely within my control... that I miss it!
Too much focus on the outside things, the clutter... losing touch with what is near.

So as somebody once said to me... Pull yourself towards yourself!


A pic of Annelie and I in another mad state of hysterics another time... but the madness is the same...