Launch Day

It's GROWN UP KIND OF PRETTY's launch day, so of course my mental illness number is so high that my main goal for today is to get all the way through hot yoga with no public weeping. If I can make it to the end, I will lie down, flattened and soaked in my own greases, stinking, trembling on my mat, and Isobel will come around and put cold towels soaked in lavender water on everyone's eyeballs.

I hereby give myself permission to weep silently and peacefully into my cold towel. If I don't...