2. "people need to be accommodating, whether they are family or not"
3. not all decisions are dramatic
4. one should be very careful with one's choice of movie when one is feeling particularly exasperated
5. when faced with the consequences of murphy's law, one will always wonder what kind of guy murphy was
6. a bottle of wine is a much cheaper form of therapy
7. there's no such thing as too many cups of tea...
8. ... but there is such thing as too much butter
9. when travelling for less than 24 hours, it is best to be sober for the 24 hours preceding