Ten.One Thousand, Five Hundred & Forty-Eight

1. Thank goodness the heartburn went away.

2. On the mornings I wake up before the alarm I worry about becoming an insomniac. On the mornings I wake up with the alarm, I worry about wasting the extra time I could have had if I had woken up before the alarm.

3. Out of creamer.

4. Only one kid to take to school and still running late.

5. Live Again by Sevendust. I am transported to high school and see my brother, young, fresh-faced. I should call him.

6. I time myself. Because, of course, the goal is always to be faster.

7. He tells me that I should have told him I was scared of the ladders because then he would have started me on the step-ladder first. Always has jokes.

8. We laugh about the George Foreman Grills. We laugh harder about Michael Scott and his burned foot.

9. I almost fall asleep in the dentist's chair.

10. I say that I want to know, but then he tells me and all I do is get more upset. So upset that I imagine myself breaking another tooth. Time for another boundary.

11. More to do.