I am extremely paranoid about walking through wooded areas alone – and I consider “wooded areas” to be clusters of more than, say, seven trees. I recently discovered a new and pleasant way to walk to work, but it requires being in a wooded area for about forty seconds. I was really nervous about this, until this morning, when I saw a solitary elderly woman casually strolling out of the same wooded area. It’s possible she’s the most reckless and foolish elderly woman in the entire world, or maybe the most physically powerful, but it doesn’t seem likely.

This couple rides the bus with me every morning – I’m pretty familiar with all the people on my weekday morning bus, largely because everyone likes to sit in the same seats. This couple always sits in front of me (on the good side of the bus, but too close to the door for my taste). Until a few months ago, the man and the woman sometimes got on the bus at separate stops. (Then the man would sit somewhere ELSE; I think because he feared that the prime seat next to him would be filled before the woman got on the bus. So he chose the horrible middle seats with no windows.) Then they started always getting on at the same stop. Then this morning the woman was wearing a diamond ring on her left hand! I really, really, really had to fight the urge to congratulate them.

I bought this lunchbox last week, and it’s pink and roomy and includes four matching pink Tupperware containers of various sizes, and although it hasn’t solved ALL of my problems, it seems to have solved MOST of them.