A Year's Worth of Bitching

Since everyone else is doing some crappy retrospective of the year gone by then I should probably do the same. So below are my top 10 bitches of the year. These are in no particular order. Kind of like my life.

1. I'm still in the same dead end job. This is just a matter of me getting off my lazy ass and hitting the pavement. With my bad knees it will be a struggle. Maybe I can get some Aleve if they haven't pulled that off the market too!
2. I'm still looking for Mr. OK-I-guess-you-will-do. Mr. Right died 100 years ago in an unfortunate accident when he pulled the seat out for his date a little too far and the gal slipped to the floor, tipped the chair Mr. Right was holding and knocked him into a burning candle on the next table. He was charred to a crisp. Hence the death of shivalry!
3. George Bush is still president. I don't need to say anything more.
4. My family thinks I'm an extra large now AFTER I lost 20 pounds and was never more than a large to begin with! (Let's visit backward land, shall we).
5. My new bank (TCF) sucks as much, if not more than the old bank (Bank One)! Can I write checks from money I've stuffed in my mattress? Electronic payments??
6. That bitch is still living in my building but a lot of the cool people left. Is this some kind of curse I'm under?
7. The people at work are getting as fat as ever and swear they are going to drag me along. I think only two of them can fit in the elevator at a time these days. And don't walk behind them. It's like driving a Geo Metro and trying to see past an Escalade!
8. Peanut is still the worst barber ever! I know I said I wouldn't go back but I was trying to help the brother out. When charity work means I must live with a bad fade that's where the charity ends! I am getting a haircut today from someone else.
9. OK, I could only come up with the top 8 bitches. Hell, that's enough for anyone! Stop your bitching already!!

...And deliver us from George Bush

I think I am finally coming out of my depressed state.  It only took a month but as you know these things take time.  Yes, I'm depressed about men and money but those are constant depressions.  No, this one was much more immediate.  I was still upset about that farce of a presidential election we had last month.  I was in serious depression the entire day when I heard that Bush had won.  I couldn't believe it!  I was shaken to the very core of my being.  What does this say about our country?  I ran the scenarios back and forth then forth and back.  Economic, social, domestic, foreign, they all came out the same to me.  This country has taken a shit on itself, can't smell it and there is no one there to change the diaper!  Then came the mad rush to jump the proverbial ship with the resignation of such popular cabinet members as Colin Powell.  All I can say is Dude, you should have left about 2 years ago when your integrity didn't have so many holes in it!  Oddly enough this administration had no problem keeping the one man who should have been kicked out on his keaster, Don (I'm too sexy for this war) Rumsfeld. 

 

Lately I've been feeling like Ned Beatty in the movie 'Deliverance'.  It's just a matter of time before the religious right makes me squeal like a pig.  But I have come to some point of equilibrium that keeps me going through the day and also keeps me from hopping on the first jet out of this back woods country.  And that is the simple knowledge that he will be gone in four years!  Four years isn't that long.  Humph!  I just realized that a lot can happen in four years!  The war in Iraq could escalate, the dollar could continue to fall, the economy could go to shit, there could be another terrorist attack and I could get more gray hair.  Well, as you know I always try to look on the bright side.  At least I have the power to take care of one of these nasty foretellings.  I can always buy Grecian Formula!

 

 

Now That's a Fire!

As you all know, I have been working in the loop for the past two years. And though I have reservations about my job there are definitely no reservations about working downtown in the loop! Fun and peril at the turn of every corner! A parade over here, falling debris over there, Millennium park opening over here, cranes smashing into buildings over there. It just doesn't end down here! Last nights fire definitely brought that fact home. I was at home and had just finished watching a TV show I had taped from Sunday. Decided to check out the Monday night comedy shows and found they had been preempted by footage of some fire downtown! Well, I was highly pissed that I was missing 2 1/2 Men! That Charlie Sheen is so damn cute! But I digress. Anywho, I'm watching this building go up in flames like some towering inferno and think to myself, "That building looks awful familiar, can't quite place it though." I was finally given a clue when they gave the address of the burning building. It is a building I go to all the time for lunch which is directly across the street from my own office building! Crazy!!!

Mind you, last year I distinctly remember leaving work a little late and I was heading off to take care of some banking business. For some reason I looked up. It may have had something to do with the fire engines screaming down Dearborn. That's when I saw the fire raging in the county building! I immediately asked a woman standing next to me, "Isn't that a fire?!" She looks up then looks at me with the most vacuous and apathetic stare as she shrugs her shoulders and continues to walk across the street! I thought I was clueless!! Two tragedies like this in such close vicinity and time. Fortunately this time there were no fatalities. I don't think any of us will have to guess at what will be on the next city council agenda!