I’ve been obsessed with this Matthew Perry book for the past several days. The algorithm started showing me old clips of the show Friends, and one day I kid you not, it must’ve have been a Sunday, I watched Friends rerun clips for probably two hours. I didn’t make supper. I didn’t join in with whatever show the rest of the family was watching. I laughed in bed for two hours watching Friends. I’d never really watched the show much before, and definitely wasn’t watching when it was famous.

So of course I had to read Matthew’s memoir about his life and rise to fame and terrible struggle with drug and alcohol addiction. The way I look at addicts has changed. I would’ve never understood them before, and still I wouldn’t say I truly do understand them. They want love and all these things but keep on pushing it away because they cannot part with their substance. I really do think that anytime a hardcore addict or alcoholic gets sober its because a miracle happened.

But the rest of the day, most of it, was spent getting Ethan and Laura’s room ready downstairs. I paid Elianna and Miles $80 each to paint the room which we’d all completely forgotten about from earlier in the week. Dad packed bins into the storage room after cleaning mouse droppings off the shelves. I tried to get the boys to throw more away but one of them said to me, “Mom, we have to have some cool junk.” There’s still a little more to do. But overall we worked together and got it done.