Sunday, November 30, 2008

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

I got sound onYoutube again.
SUNDAY PAPER

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Friday, November 28, 2008

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.

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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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Thursday, November 27, 2008

TRYING NOT TO BE TOO UNHAPPY ABOUT IT, OR...DAY 332

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!

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

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

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

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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

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 on my card list.

Monday, November 24, 2008

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...


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Sunday, November 23, 2008

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

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

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Friday, November 21, 2008

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.

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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.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

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

I don't need a new phone cord.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

TRYING NOT TO BE TOO UNHAPPY ABOUT IT, OR MY LIFE...324

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

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

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

I got my parking validated.

Monday, November 17, 2008

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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Sunday, November 16, 2008

TRYING NOT TO BE TOO UNHAPPY ABOUT IT, OR MY LIFE...321

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

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Friday, November 14, 2008

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 it’s good to know peace is to be found.


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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 Leechburg. 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.

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

We got paid.

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Thursday, November 13, 2008

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.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

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.


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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

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.

Monday, November 10, 2008

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 Pandora's alma mater.

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Sunday, November 09, 2008

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.
SUNDAY PAPER

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Friday, November 07, 2008

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.

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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.

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Thursday, November 06, 2008

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.

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

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.

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Tuesday, November 04, 2008

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 of R'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.

Monday, November 03, 2008

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.

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Sunday, November 02, 2008

SUNDAY PAPER

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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.