mercury retrograde scapegoats

I am a consistently inconsistent person.  Sometimes it bothers me, I wish I could be more dependable.  But then sometimes I appreciate being the way I am.  So every few months or so, something clicks in my head and I just go on a, what's the word? bender?  I've noticed this pattern since high school.  Like I wouldn't kiss a boy for 7 months and then all of a sudden, bam! 4 new make-outs to add to my tally.

so this same kind of thing happened to me the past month or so.  I had been working overtime, eating well, being kind and overly generous and quiet and introverted.  And then one day it just ended.  I was staying up late, hanging out with a million people, going to parties and out to Main Street every night, avoiding work at all costs, not wearing sunscreen, forgetting all rules of modesty etc etc.

and during this bender (I hesitate to call it that, it's not like I was doing heroin or something haha) it seems like the craziest things happened.  I got a ticket, I was getting anxiety at work and weird things seemed to be going wrong, my ex-boyfriend had a psycho attack and punched through my bedroom window and got 14 staples in his arm. 

So when I was getting my brows waxed and I was telling my esthetician Kimberly how it seems like the world has just been off it's axis for like 3 weeks.  She told me, oh yeah, Mercury is in retrograde, and that's why everything is so chaotic.  I had never even heard of such a thing, so straight to google I went.

http://www.cafeastrology.com/mercuryretrograde.html

It's a real thing people.  Factual or not, I now have a completely reasonable explanation for my rebellions.  And I suppose if I use it as an excuse then all the people who lost their minds this summer can use it as a partial excuse too.

PS Lindsey and I are team moms of the Waldorf's Softball team.  We're the best fans there ever were, and we even bring CapriSuns//