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Looking down my friends list I see that most of the folks who are posting this evening are bored, frustrated, sick, worried, in pain, upset, confused, etc... I assume the rest of you are at karaoke.
I'm not, though I suspect a cold or something worse (like singing, for instance, though that's far worse for you than it is for me) is on the horizon for me, things have simply been going too well for too long, and I know better than to expect things to continue in this perfect way forever. Although, to be honest, things haven't been perfect, I've even had a couple of mildly concerning health issues crop up recently, but nothing sufficiently alarming or disabling to dampen my buoyant mood. (Mix metaphors much? Yes, why yes I do, thank you very much) So yeah, things aren't "perfect" but they're good which is, well, for lack of a better word, good.
But seriously, good is fucking phenomenal, you know? Do you?
Can I explain how good means I'm not deluding myself into thinking things are perfect, or do I even need to? Can I further explain that when I say things aren't perfect, I really mean that they are, pretty much, for me, perfect? I'm certainly not where I want to be in my life, but I'm exactly where I want to be in my life right now. Tomorrow morning is a different story, another dreaded dentist appointment, but really, even those aren't that bad, and the additional self-esteem being generated, just from knowing that I'm dealing with it, that someday, even someday soon, I'm going to have a smile I can be proud of again (this isn't to say that my smile has ever been particularly stunning, but you know, you take what you can get, and you make the best of it) makes it all well worth it.
I actually signed on to jot down a couple of amusing quotes from the book I'm reading ("Wicked" for those who weren't paying attention yesterday, or have more important things to do with their time than commit the minutiae of my life to memory) but got sidetracked thinking about how lucky I am, which makes me grin. But here, without further ado are the quotes I want someday to be able to accidentally run across when I'm trying to figure out just what it was that I did when I was my age:
"I don't read very well. So I don't think I think very well either." Which is the important part, I'd feel negligent and inaccurate if I failed to add the next sentence in here as well, even if only as an afterthought: "I dress to kill though."
"But they believe in evil still.....Isn't that funny, that deity is passe, but the attributes and implications of deity linger"
I'm not, though I suspect a cold or something worse (like singing, for instance, though that's far worse for you than it is for me) is on the horizon for me, things have simply been going too well for too long, and I know better than to expect things to continue in this perfect way forever. Although, to be honest, things haven't been perfect, I've even had a couple of mildly concerning health issues crop up recently, but nothing sufficiently alarming or disabling to dampen my buoyant mood. (Mix metaphors much? Yes, why yes I do, thank you very much) So yeah, things aren't "perfect" but they're good which is, well, for lack of a better word, good.
But seriously, good is fucking phenomenal, you know? Do you?
Can I explain how good means I'm not deluding myself into thinking things are perfect, or do I even need to? Can I further explain that when I say things aren't perfect, I really mean that they are, pretty much, for me, perfect? I'm certainly not where I want to be in my life, but I'm exactly where I want to be in my life right now. Tomorrow morning is a different story, another dreaded dentist appointment, but really, even those aren't that bad, and the additional self-esteem being generated, just from knowing that I'm dealing with it, that someday, even someday soon, I'm going to have a smile I can be proud of again (this isn't to say that my smile has ever been particularly stunning, but you know, you take what you can get, and you make the best of it) makes it all well worth it.
I actually signed on to jot down a couple of amusing quotes from the book I'm reading ("Wicked" for those who weren't paying attention yesterday, or have more important things to do with their time than commit the minutiae of my life to memory) but got sidetracked thinking about how lucky I am, which makes me grin. But here, without further ado are the quotes I want someday to be able to accidentally run across when I'm trying to figure out just what it was that I did when I was my age:
"I don't read very well. So I don't think I think very well either." Which is the important part, I'd feel negligent and inaccurate if I failed to add the next sentence in here as well, even if only as an afterthought: "I dress to kill though."
"But they believe in evil still.....Isn't that funny, that deity is passe, but the attributes and implications of deity linger"