Evidence that worrying TOTALLY WORKS

I saw a quote recently on my friend Sally's Facebook status: "Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength." In my experience, this holds true.

Yet I can't completely rid my brain of that little superstitious thought that if I worry about the worst possible thing, I will magically prevent it from coming to be.

We sent our Indian visa applications to the India consulate in San Francisco last week. The website says that the application typically takes 7 to 9 business days to process. So when I received an email yesterday that said that the applications had been "processed correctly" and were being FedEx-ed back to us I was fairly certain that "processed correctly" didn't mean "approved" but rather meant "you screwed up so we denied your visas" or even "we're not approving visas right now due to some security concern or other" - I mean "processed correctly" doesn't really SAY anything.

So I worked that thought over in my head for the last 24 hours.

Thank goodness for FedEx - I only had to ward off bad news with my magical worrying powers for one day. Everything has arrived and our visas are approved and paperwork is in order!

"I have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened" - Mark Twain

... It's because of my magical brain!