TRYING NOT TO BE TOO UNHAPPY ABOUT IT, OR...DAY 335

I got sound onYoutube again.

SATURDAY NIGHT VIDEOS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxCVajc2aIA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mTiwLvNABk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF34cpjYxWI

http://s213.photobucket.com/albums/cc118/WesleySpunk/?action=view&current=grandmagotrunoverbyareindeer.flv

http://starymarzyciel.wrzuta.pl/film/3SjMuV07AW/abba_-_waterloo

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x21dko_abba-waterloo_music

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1xha_hanson-mmmbop_music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cri3rK9kcg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPaFp5ZxE1I&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaTYnj5o5ug&feature=related

TRYING NOT TO BE TOO UNHAPPY ABOUT IT, OR...DAY 334

I can walk. And wash, dress and feed myself. And blow my own nose.

WEEK 48

I guess Thanksgiving of all times is the time of year to realize your life doesn't suck too much, or even if it does, that other people's lives suck more, so you should be thankful for that. Sure, things aren't as great as I'd like them to be, but they are better than they were a year ago. Definitely something for which to be thankful.

TRYING NOT TO BE TOO UNHAPPY ABOUT IT, OR...DAY 333

Got matching carriers for the pigs and a five-dollar gift card free.

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A good dinner, light traffic and nice weather.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Hmmm, let's at least hit the basics:

I am thankful that we live in a country in which democracy rules, even though I don't always agree with it.
I am thankful that even though most of our latest winners weren't elected in a landslide there is no rioting in the streets.
Trains are still running and there is still milk for the children. Somehow "milk for the children" seems to be a REALLY important measure of a country's well-being for some people.
I am thankful for food, so much of it that I have to lose weight.
I am thankful for shelter, even though it looks like Oscar Madison's apartment before Felix moved in.
I am thankful for clothing, even though I have outgrown some of it and some of it is threadbare yet I am reluctant to part with it.

I think we've covered the basics. Happy Thanksgiving!

TRYING NOT TO BE TOO UNHAPPY ABOUT IT, OR...DAY 331

A guy apologized for something I don't even remember.

TRYING NOT TO BE TOO UNHAPPY ABOUT IT, OR...DAY 330

I found my Christmas card list from last year. And the last two years. The last 17 years, in fact. This after I had decided it was lost for good and I should try to reconstruct it from last year's cards received, my e-mail address book etc. My Christmas card system is systematic to the point of being brutal. I guess it would have been 1990 I bought a cheapo tablet at Happy Harry's for about two dollars. It was coloured lined paper. Every year I made a list in column form, one for cards, one for gifts. This is how it works:

If you sent me a generic winter holiday card in the last two years, you will get a card from me unless I am REALLY pissed off at you. This does not apply to charities, commercial institutions etc. If you are a bIood relative, if I like you a lot or if I feel a real need to share something with you, you will get a card regardless of whether you have sent me one recently. At my highest point I had over 90 people on my list, ranging from my current housemate to my best friend from high school to my 85-yearold grandmother. I send more cards in even-numbered years than in odd-numbered ones. Two years ago, an even-numered year, there were about 63 people on my list. This year it will be about 60 but for the first time in years I will have someone in Australia to send a card to.

TRYING NOT TO BE TOO UNHAPPY ABOUT IT, OR...DAY 329

The guy at the service station was nice to me. So was the woman at Two Sisters and the technician...

TRYING NOT TO BE TOO UNHAPPY ABOUT IT, OR MY LIFE...328

Camomile tea. There is something so soothing about it, the smell alone...

SATURDAY NIGHT VIDEOS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL2mY_WAn10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r1MjVpG_kk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpMCE1G3N7Q

http://www.jibjab.com/originals/good_to_be_in_dc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NncWvdub7S8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MczZzJ-jy5c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us3dQ0nnlHY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByyWL7FpU90

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0LjshfEaqU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKPKx8Q6r2o

TRYING NOT TO BE TOO UNHAPPY ABOUT IT, OR MY LIFE...327

Two new facebook friends and the possibility of more money.

WEEK 47

Not a bad week. Hopefully the most unpleasant medical tests will be over with in less than a week and soon I will only occupy one zip code. Watched Cat on a Hot Tin Roof last weekend. In addition to the the latent homosexuality, family dysfunctionality and career frustration was the song "Jesus Wants Me for A Sunbeam," which is really not a bad thing. Really, are we put here on earth to make people's lives miserable? I should certainly hope not.

Also, Oprah had a guest named Jill Price, who has total recall, probably a thousand times better than I do. Apparently Jill is looking for people with similar abilities to share experiences. Until recently I thought everyone could remember things the way I do. A web search shows that in spite of her elephant memory, Price is not a terribly happy person. Understandable, in a way, to not be able to forget hurts heaped on you by family members, bosses, teachers and "friends." she says school was a miserable experience for her and now she works in an unremarkable job and lives with her parents. Still, she has a book published and was on Oprah, neither of which I have managed to accomplish.

TRYING NOT TO BE TOO UNHAPPY ABOUT IT, OR MY LIFE...326

I got lucky not once but twice with parking spaces. And the girls and I got a write up in the Citypaper.

TRYING NOT TO BE TOO UNHAPPY ABOUT IT, OR MY LIFE...325

I don't need a new phone cord.

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The assistant managing editor of the Citypaper e-mailed me. And I scheduled a hysterosonogram.

TRYING NOT TO BE TOO UNHAPPY ABOUT IT, OR MY LIFE...323

I got my parking validated.

TRYING NOT TO BE TOO UNHAPPY ABOUT IT, OR MY LIFE...322

A guy at Safeway let me get ahead of him. And my first Youtube video has over 500 views.

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I don't have to get my clothes from charity.

SATURDAY NIGHT VIDEOS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciHQahM_0r8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muLdYYH-T48

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t4gN_-nfQA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9AE8QQfx_E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUdd9jrTKpw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYnHRVaQ7qw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxWFwlKigI4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS513FRfbwE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU4KWe2vqug

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUicIwHSo9Q&feature=related

TRYING NOT TO BE TOO UNHAPPY ABOUT IT, OR MY LIFE DOESN'T SUCK TOO MUCH DAY 320

There are Fruity Snacks in the vending machine. CSPAN tried to get us hooked. And the homeless guy in front of 7-11 was nice to me.

WEEK 46

A pretty good week. I have done four company events in the last two weeks. It’s interesting to see what’s meant by “company culture.” Or maybe it goes beyond culture. Some companies seem like repositories for the walking wounded. Their employees are like walking open wounds – it doesn’t matter what industry they’re in. They can’t wait to recite all their medical histories and past injustices heaped on them. Nothing you do is good enough for them – they feel they’re entitled to more for whatever reason. Being around them is draining and if I weren’t paid for it I wouldn’t hang around them unless it were some sort of charity project.

A couple days ago I did a web search on Wendy Bergren. She was the stay-at-home mother of three who died of cancer at a young age – when she was rendered unable to care for her children it was probably doubly hard as that was what she had chosen as her career, not just as her lot in life.

Her example is cited in the book Having Your Baby When Others Say No! It is meant for women facing a crisis, unexpected or unwanted pregnancy. One chapter says “You may not be happy with the way your life has turned out to this point. Perhaps you feel that there has to be more to living than what you've experienced or felt. Maybe you want things to improve for you and your baby. You can find the peace you're looking for.”
No shit. But at it’s good to know peace is to be found.

LAST NIGHT I HAD THE STRANGEST DREAM

Or maybe it was this morning. Whatever. I dreamt I was back at WILM and R was training me. She made me hunt for some big, huge dusty reels that hardly anyone uses anymore. There was no paper log and she gave me something that looked like a cart. It was Fleetwood Mac or Led Zeppelin or the Eagles. I forget which.

I needed to take a bus to Tyson’s Corner so I stayed overnight at B’s house. J was still alive. I ended up driving the ’67 Valiant. I was afraid it would die on me but I kept goosing it along and it kept going.

Mom was in L. Dad got a grapevine from Capper’s Nursery. He said it was from the same root stock as the one we got when I was about five years old.

TRYING NOT TO BE TOO UNHAPPY ABOUT IT, OR MY LIFE DOESN'T SUCK TOO MUCH DAY 319

We got paid.

TRYING NOT TO BE TOO UNHAPPY ABOUT IT, OR MY LIFE DOESN'T SUCK TOO MUCH DAY 318

C-SPAN gave us a great lunch. And my massage and reflexology chairs have paid for themselves.

TRYING NOT TO BE TOO UNHAPPY ABOUT IT, OR MY LIFE DOESN'T SUCK TOO MUCH DAY 317

I didn't have to work TOO hard.

TRYING NOT TO BE TOO UNHAPPY ABOUT IT, OR MY LIFE DOESN'T SUCK TOO MUCH DAY 316

I sealed a deal on a car rental and scheduled a biopsy.

TRYING NOT TO BE TOO UNHAPPY ABOUT IT, OR MY LIFE DOESN'T SUCK TOO MUCH DAY 315

My pigs were treated like visiting celebrities at the shelter.

TRYING NOT TO BE TOO UNHAPPY ABOUT IT, OR MY LIFE DOESN'T SUCK TOO MUCH DAY 314

I finished all my post-birthday thank-you's. And my newest Youtube video.

SATURDAY NIGHT VIDEOS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1IVxRG66no

http://www.jibjab.com/originals/this_land

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/103354/?searchterm=Tom%27s+Rhinoplasty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLB7GfFKU7w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K0KgM48tOU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve9bhIHXgE8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4V2jHTZWrg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj3PlRI0lLY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIsjnkDFLHc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgB5aYVqtH0&feature=related

TRYING NOT TO BE TOO UNHAPPY ABOUT IT, OR MY LIFE DOESN'T SUCK TOO MUCH DAY 313

I got out of Jiffy Lube in fewer than five minutes. And my baby pig hit the two-pound mark.

WEEK 45

So many emotions, so little time. Right now I am so tired and hurting from the last couple days and the last eight years I don’t trust myself to even post properly. While the Obama-Biden victory is not all bad, it’s not all good either. What is somewhat surprising/refreshing/disappointing is the right-wing media’s reactions. While the people at one radio station have reacted by using fowl language on and off air and throwing stuff around off air, my ultra right-wing boss said “he’s [Obama] our president. We have to pray for him.”

At least I have Beavis and Butthead to cheer me up.

TRYING NOT TO BE TOO UNHAPPY ABOUT IT, OR MY LIFE DOESN'T SUCK TOO MUCH DAY 312

The parking lot attendant helped me put my chair into the trunk.

TRYING NOT TO BE TOO UNHAPPY ABOUT IT, OR MY LIFE DOESN'T SUCK TOO MUCH DAY 311

I probably won't have to buy next year's Halloween/Mardi Gras costumes from a drag queen supplier.

TRYING NOT TO BE TOO UNHAPPY ABOUT IT, OR MY LIFE DOESN'T SUCK TOO MUCH DAY 310

The people who have fucked me over are pissed. Good.

TRYING NOT TO BE TOO UNHAPPY ABOUT IT, OR MY LIFE DOESN'T SUCK TOO MUCH DAY 309

America has its first Catholic vice president. And one ofR's guests' put a dollar bill in my cleavage. A female guest.

PUBLIC SERVANTS ANNOUNCEMENT

Vote.

Doesn't matter whether it's Republican (though it wouldn't hurt), Democratic, Libertarian, Green, DC Statehood, whatever, just vote.

Otherwise don't complain about what you got.

TRYING NOT TO BE TOO UNHAPPY ABOUT IT, OR MY LIFE DOESN'T SUCK TOO MUCH DAY 308

I saved about $350.00 on condo repair bills.

TRYING NOT TO BE TOO UNHAPPY ABOUT IT, OR MY LIFE DOESN'T SUCK TOO MUCH DAY 307

My Youtube page has more than 500 hits.

SATURDAY NIGHT VIDEOS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM3GYNgE9Jg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqr_XkhBaXc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghmRtbuEWvc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWZFW3cEQQc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-3VL90rMZM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H231jRxrUYY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1wH2qZ3gnk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBmajjf5WKE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqNbeEQRgGM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgB5aYVqtH0&feature=related

TRYING NOT TO BE TOO UNHAPPY ABOUT IT, OR MY LIFE DOESN'T SUCK TOO MUCH DAY 306

I started a new Youtube page. And Brandilynn added me as a friend.