Platitude Paradise

...or "How My Life Resembles a Sucker" You ever had a stint of time where it's like you're porous to everything that flies past you?  Like you just attract the bad ju ju? I had "the" work event this past weekend. It was brutal. I have been suffering with the same cluster headache for what just became 5 full weeks today. Nothing seems able to really help it very much. I've had minimal, if any relief from it. The weekend was no exception.  By Saturday morning, I wanted someone to cut my head off with an ax... and they could've in the afternoon, as we attended a local ax throwing lounge for our social event. Honestly, it was a great choice - they had loads of fun. To be clear, it all went without much of a hitch.  It wasn't without its own mayhem, but to anyone who didn't look behind the curtain, it went swimmingly. I've coined a metaphor: It's like a Big Mouth Jaw Breaker... you know, one o...

It's amusing, the way the human psyche works... just a few short years ago, I'd have sold my soul for mediocrity. To be some boring 'Jane Doe' barely making ends meet... I'd have sold.my.soul. Today however, I want to unzip the escape hatch of my life and bludgeon mediocrity into the bloody pulp it deserves. Here's a day in the life... Crawl out of bed, unrested. Drag ass through work, while battling 'Mephistopheles the headache' (whom is now in his fourth week) and the many 'issues' with which one is inundated on the daily. Come home by way of the tailor, the nail salon and the corner store for kindling. Get home and realize I forgot to get child's prescription from the pharmacy. Order script for child. Make wraps for spouse - who is currently salty with me for fibbing about where I got my last auto service performed... namely because it  was an excuse to see someone I'm not allowed to see. Turn around and go bac...

You know who I mean, right? That person that sees nothing but negatives... no matter the topic. You: "Nice day out there!" NN: "It's too hot." You: "Great job on that presentation." NN: "John's just gonna tear it apart now anyway." You: "You look really nice today." NN: "Ugh! I'm a Troll!" ...I could go on, but you're smellin' what I'm steppin' in over here, right? They can be exhausting. I currently work with a Negative Nelly, I also live with one full time and one part time Negative Nelly. I'm exhausted. I know what it's like, I am often a Negative Nelly, but I am incredibly cognizant of that behavior now. I'm a constant work in progress, but at least I'm doing something. Life can make you negative, if you let it. Sometimes it feels like I bullshit myself more than anyone else I know, just to land on the positive. Some days, negativity wins. ...