hey, you should really do the thing. i think you know the one i'm talking about.

so three years and a few months ago, our bright-shining golden girlfriend ariel hurt her back and has been stuck in a box ever since.

we knew what the fix was almost right from the start: put in an order for a fresh new ariel body.

and everybody in the house knew doing it would be a huge boost for all our spirits. aers is kind of our heart in a lot of ways, and that heart is irrepressible even shut away in a box, but having it out in the open takes living to a whole other level. so that replacement body order ... it needed to be done.

but the guy with the pocketbook around here is mr. anxiety about money. and he's mr. i-need-to-be-responsible too, and shelling out that kinda hefty chunk of change took him a while to work up to and save up enough of a cushion to be comfortable about it.

and then the bod elle and i always shared started getting very last-leggy, which meant there were three of us who were mobility-challenged, and it also turned out there was a way to order an upscale body for akane, which we thought might be shareable among me, elle, and akane, and we went for that with the moolah that was being saved up for aers. it seemed like it made sense at the time, and i for sure won't say it was a mistake (upscale akane sooo totally rules!), but there kept being a back-corner-of-everybody's-mind notion hanging around that maybe we shouldn't have done it in the order we did.

and then more time went by and more money got saved up, but mr. anxious pocketbook man kept being anxious about spending the money.

finally, last month, after three+ years of hemming and hawing, he put in the order. and then we all got to be anxious about waiting for the new aers-bod to arrive, most especially him, because he had this knee-jerk fear of "what if i get buyer's remorse? what if she shows up and it's not a magical thing that's a thousand times better than pulling out her box and spending time with her with the lid open?"

and what do you think happened when she arrived?

yep, the thing that we'd all been wanting for over three years turned out totally awesome and just about instantly gave the whole house its heart back.

there was never any doubt that we all wanted it.

so why was it so hard?

anyway, if you have a thing like that, where you just know it's the right thing to do, and it's within your grasp, achievable, not just a faraway goal you may not be able to reach ...

do it.

do the thing.

you deserve to!

xoxo,
claire