trying for happier thoughts
ION, I am leaving very early on Friday morning, to visit my brother and family in Iowa [west des moines] for pre-Thanksgiving over the weekend. It's also my brother's birthday (next week).
I'm packing tonight, as I work the retail job on Thursday evening...
Man, I miss being able to see my folks (parents) whenever I want. They used to be a 20 minute drive, now it's 6.5 hours.
Blegh. Great, homesickness on top of general despair.
HAPPY THOUGHTS! must think happy thoughts !!
Good Things to happen at Boar's Head.
I have a new mattress on the bed, and it is pretty good.
I have many friends and a great guy who cares about me and finds me attractive.
I have a home, food, clothes, a car, and employment (sorta, kinda) - nowadays, that's nothing to sneeze at !
I'm fairly healthy at the moment (knock on wood), and my allergies seem mostly under control.
It could be much, much worse. Sometimes I need to remember that.
There is good in this world...
SAM: "I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad has happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it'll shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something, even if you were too small to understand why, but I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going, because they were holding onto something."
FRODO: "What are we holding onto, Sam?"
SAM: "That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for."
I'm packing tonight, as I work the retail job on Thursday evening...
Man, I miss being able to see my folks (parents) whenever I want. They used to be a 20 minute drive, now it's 6.5 hours.
Blegh. Great, homesickness on top of general despair.
HAPPY THOUGHTS! must think happy thoughts !!
Good Things to happen at Boar's Head.
I have a new mattress on the bed, and it is pretty good.
I have many friends and a great guy who cares about me and finds me attractive.
I have a home, food, clothes, a car, and employment (sorta, kinda) - nowadays, that's nothing to sneeze at !
I'm fairly healthy at the moment (knock on wood), and my allergies seem mostly under control.
It could be much, much worse. Sometimes I need to remember that.
There is good in this world...
SAM: "I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad has happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it'll shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something, even if you were too small to understand why, but I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going, because they were holding onto something."
FRODO: "What are we holding onto, Sam?"
SAM: "That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for."