It's a Bird! It's a Plane! No! It's Super (Crazy) Marfa!

I am crazy. I suppose that’s a given, considering the title of this blog, and I am Crazy Sister #2. No, it goes deeper than that. I really am crazy. Cray-zeee.

The “crazy” reality hit me this past weekend. I was suffering (and still am suffering) from a particularly nasty bout of strep throat, and just didn’t have much energy. I fell asleep during the Super Bowl, but then woke around 9:30pm, soaked with sweat, full of panic, thinking, “I forgot to make baby food!”

What?! ‘I forgot to make baby food’?

Crazy Clue #1: I make baby food. Yes, I typically spend hours every Sunday cooking, chopping, mashing, pureeing, and freezing all kinds of food for my baby. Why, when I could just spend the sixty-two cents on a jar and be done with it? Because I am crazy.

It was okay, though, because there was still some baby food in the freezer, and honestly, I keep a few jars around, just in case. No biggie. I can do it one day after work, right?

Crazy Clue #2: I work full-time outside of the home, in addition to being a full-time wife and mom. This leads me directly into…

Crazy Clue #3: I teach on Monday nights. Yes, after “regular” work, I play with my baby, give her dinner, play some more, get her in her jammies, kiss her good night/good-bye and, while she’s in daddy’s capable hands, I make my way to the local university to teach a graduate class.

I don’t make dinner for myself or my husband on Monday nights (because of teaching) or on Thursday nights (because the hubby is off on Thursdays and he takes care of it). Okay, so…

Crazy Clue #4: I cook the rest of the time. I love to cook. I really do. Roasted chicken and steamed green beans, steak with homemade mushroom sauce and baked potatoes, Cornish game hens with stuffing and wild rice, baked salmon with carrots, spaghetti with garlic bread…and once in a while, a frozen pizza or hot dogs with mac and cheese.

What is wrong with me??

Crazy Clue #5: I think I’m ready for a change. I think I want a career change. But am I looking for another job or going back to school? Noooo. I love teaching (refer to #3), but I really want to write. Novels. Good novels. Novels with psychological thrills and steamy relationship stuff. I have two novels that are halfway finished.

Why two and why both only halfway? The first one, I got a little case of writer’s block, and then got slammed with a fantastic idea for another book, so I jumped on it. The second one is only halfway finished because I take maybe fifteen minutes of my lunch break to type. And that’s when I’m not working through my lunch break. But that’s okay. Why?

Crazy Clue #6: I love my life. The chaos, the pressure, the deadlines, the good stuff, the bad stuff…it works for me. And I manage my schedule well enough that I still spend more time in any given week with my daughter, than I do on work or other “miscellaneous” stuff.

Crazy Clue #7: One person’s chaos is another’s balance. I feel balanced.

Maybe I’m not that crazy.