I’ve come to realize what a wonderful widget a chat box is. Maybe even a must-have for blogs using EntreCard – for droppers like me who don’t *want* to drop and run, but can’t think of a comment worth posting on some one else’s blog.

You can get one here if you don’t already use one.

I added mine today here with a link at the top for easy access for all you EC surfers.

It’s been a roller-coaster sort of week for me, up and down, and my “attacks” have returned … But, like Boxer on Animal Farm, I just put my head down and keep on pulling.
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I am living the dream so many of us have.

Working from home. Being my own boss, more or less (when you are the boss, of course, your customers or clients become your bosses).

The problem, naturally, is that the work is always there. I can’t leave it at the office. And I have a hard time giving myself days off when I know that assignment is lurking, unfinished, waiting for me.

But I am working it out. I love the freedom of being able to set my hours as I like and listen to music or have a movie on in the background.

Better still, I get so busy I can hire subcontractors to help me out. If that’s not the American dream, I am not sure what is.

It one of those things that is so obvious it gets missed.

Lots of people use “anxiety attack” and “panic attack” interchangeably, but they are not the same thing. The use of the different words should be a tip-off, but even I missed the significance.

Anxiety can lead to panic. Anxiety attacks can be diffused before panic sets in. Anxiety attacks are more mild and less consuming than panic attacks.

I don’t know the professional views on this as well as I know my own experiences, of course. YMMV.