25 posts tagged “qotd”

Every new "Today" seems more anxious than ever. Do you find more solace in "Yesterday" or "Tomorrow"? Why?
Submitted by Bee Whisperer.

-notwithstanding the following, I *am* a fretter when I can't get away from the crazy; I believe all of this in my heart

All that is occurring "now" is all that really is. The rest of that crap is in your head. Even "today" is in your head.

I've lived through some rough stuff and I'm still alive. It's easy to catastrophize about the near future, the far future, get pulled into the muck of what came before. Harder, it is, to be present some times... Here's what I clung to as a child:

If you're breathing, you're alive.

Run and hide, if you can.

Put one foot in front of the other, if you're able.

Stand and fight, if you must.

To whatever is left, keep breathing and protect your head. Your body can take care of itself.

And at some point, the past and future won't matter.

Poor Jerusalem 1

You may find solace or not in that but it's what I call truth.

What's your favorite thing about being sick?

Dead kin

Not dying. 

Speaking of which, coming to you straight-outta the TBWard:  the dude who was carried out last week is out of the hospital and back home as of yesterday.  We got another call but instead of our TBWard ullness, this gal tripped over the ottoman (not really but it was similar and that's a Dick Van Dyke reference or how I remember it from childhood -- we've ascertained my memory isn't very good) and broke several ribs last night.

What-with the several others who are out with the ullness, it's a wasteland in here.  Brighter news, I'm not dead and so far nobody else is, either.

Do you have a particular "catch phrase" for which you are known?
Submitted by Emu with a Clue.

"Oh, dear."

It's followed by a chorus of coworkers mocking me each time I utter it.  Otherwise, I curse like a sailor.  It's important to note my tone is like Doris Day when I say it yet I'm not trying to be funny.

A completely opposite juxtaposition from everything else I say and I say it when most people would curse.  :)

What have you changed your mind about? 
Submitted by chitoes.

Capital Punishment...and always wearing panties and bras that match.

What are 10 things you've done that other people probably haven't? 

2wks-2mos_

Submitted by Janette.   

• Voted for four different political parties

• Knocked out two men with my bare fists (separate instances).

• Lived for a year without a television set in my home.

• Eaten dolphin, not dolphin-fish but Flipper.  When I found out, I cried a little.

• Eaten horse; it’s delicious.

• Eaten squirrel brains;  they’re pretty much like pork brains but smaller.

• David Crosby asked what song he could play for me when I was seventeen. I’m sure he does that but respective to population, I’m one of the few.

• Had a gun and a knife pulled on me (not fights but purely getting jacked).  I froze with the gun and I scared the crap out of the guy with the knife.  He stepped off.

• Paid their own flipping way through university without co-signers or anything.  And I’ll always be pissed off about that -- even with full academic scholarships, I had to indebt myself for about $20,000 with a federal loan at a 10% rate.  The mob’s rate is lower.  Of course, if you slip up it’s easier going with the feds.

• Any number of types farm-work (including implements using draft animals) that hasn’t been done since the 1800’s.  I come from some serious throw-backs for family.

I can go on forever about weird crap but I tried to stick to things people can at least relate to -- eating, voting, television, music, work, school, and work.

Did you really think a woman could win? 

No.  I've said for aeons that a man of a minority race will win before a woman of any race.  John Lennon talked about it almost 40 years ago.

still true

What are your irrational fears? 
Submitted by Dan Culhane.  

Roaches.  They carry chainsaws and knives, along with every disease known to mankind.

Audio: What's your favorite carol or holiday song?

BUY ze frank xmas songs

List five reasons (at least) why you are awesome.
Submitted by goobers18.

Fogproud

• I got more skillz than Picasso got paint:
    I'm "cosmopolitan" to the rednecks because I gots me an edumacation; lived and worked in Europe, and                     travel...I'm Hillbilly to the gentry because I was raised poor, as my family came here in the late 1800's.  When             you're that poor, you're behind but that means that you live with less and have to know more to survive; ie, my         cousins who proudly proclaim being rednecks received instructions on castration from me recently but "I'm all             hoighty-toighty" in their opinion.
• I curse more than Kathy Griffin's mother and my boss says, "You were raised working alongside men, of course         you're going to be tough."  --    despite I'm 5"2'  : )   I have free-rein to curse loudly on the job.
•  This may be more of the previous but I rock in that I can repair your fence:  I'll not only grab the tools but drive the     tractor to the problem and since I'm so short, I stand on a tractor tire to drive the sledgehammer.
• I'm arty (not an artiste) and I like to learn new stuff.  My day job is doing graphic art for advertising but I also draw         and paint watercolor, equally shitty, and enjoy scribbling with pastels.  I play a ukulele as poorly as anyone else         can and sing along with flat gusto -- occasionally I'm accidentally in tune.  Oh, and a couple of years ago I started     writing fiction because I needed somewhere else to place the crazy.
• Are the new voxers gone yet?  Jumping Jesus on a Po-Go Stick!  I'm the mad-tante to three girls!

Which TV show never "jumped the shark"?
Submitted by healthypanda. 

Dead Like Me Seasons 1 and 2 Bundle

Most excellent and it burnt out before it faded away.