How I love Wednesdays, because that’s the day when the “Happier” podcast with Gretchen Rubin and her sister Elizabeth Craft drops. (Podcasts “drop”–did you know that?) Anyway, every week the two sisters spend a little over half an hour talking about all kinds of things that may sound superficial but really aren’t.
(You may remember that I got into the podcast universe by listening to Season 1 of “Serial”–that one dropped on Thursday
. . . are helping me keep some of my New Year’s resolutions. We “obligers” need lots of outside prods. (Don’t know what an “obliger” is? Read about the “Four Rubin Tendencies” here. I think she’s really onto something.)
I write about my efforts to quit my small-but-annoying habit of picking at my fingers and chewing on hangnails in the chapter on habits in my book. I’ve been doing pretty well, but there have been some slips. A couple of weeks ago I had to get a filling redone at the gumline, third bottom tooth over from the center on the right. I hate getting fillings! Hate it, hate it, hate it. It takes forever. And those needles!