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Five-Star Reviews: The Best Thing All Week

Five-Star Review

The past couple of weeks have been a sh**show.

A clusterf**k.

A total FUBAR.

One bad thing happened.

And then another.

And another.

The more bad things happened, the more frustrated I got.

And the more frustrated I got, the more distracted I got.

And the more distracted I got, the more mistakes I made…

Yeah. It’s been like that.

But then something happened that reminded me that maybe the universe wasn’t completely out to get me.

I started getting five-star reviews.

Several of them.

One parent wrote that her child had gained confidence. Another said I had become such a familiar part of their household that I felt like family.

And several parents mentioned something that meant even more to me than improved reading skills:

Their child actually looked forward to my class!

That one got me.

And those were just my youth classes.

The adults had some pretty great things to say, too.

One said I had given him renewed confidence.

Another said my class was the highlight of the week.

And one told me they had gotten a job promotion because of the communication skills they developed in class.

So maybe the past couple of weeks weren’t a complete disaster after all.

Maybe they were just…

a sh**show with five-star reviews.

Liz Brenner

Everyone has a story to tell.

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One Easy Way To Manage an Epic S**tshow

An Ep;ic Sh**show

It Was a S**tshow

A literal s**tshow.

Blue ate a HotHands packet.

We rushed her into the Pet Emergency Room.

They induced vomiting.

And emptied my wallet in the process.

They told us Blue’s stomach would probably be upset.

However, her stomach was not upset.

She was happy and sassy and had absolutely no regrets.

Several days later, we had some air conditioning guys in the house.

Blue was getting in their way, and I had a Zoom call, so I gave the dog to the Grown Son to watch.

His bedroom is right next to my home office.

Soon, I heard a frantic ruckus from next door.

Blue’s upset stomach had finally manifested in the Grown Son’s bedroom.

There was a lot of yelling.

It was, from what I could hear, an explosive, gigantic, horrifyingly messy episode.

The Grown Son was freaking out.

Bob didn’t know what to do.

I have always been the on-call person for this kind of disaster.

Since I was in a meeting, they had to take care of it themselves.

They figured it out.

The good news is that Blue has most certainly expelled any residual toxins that might have been in her system.

The Grown Son was furious that I was laughing so hard.

Until he finally started to laugh too.

Yeah, there’s nothing funnier than a s**tshow.

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