Listen, there are people who have it way, far, much more a great deal worse than me, but right now, I am fucking sick of having it be anything less than totally awesome. I am thoroughly, completely, utterly and fully tired of the great rains of bullshit that have been coming down, the runnels of crap that have been sliding on downhill and directly on top of me, pressing the breath from me and
pissing me off.
Emergency surgery, giant hospital bills, cancer for my Apa who so does not need to deal with that kind of shit and it is so unfair (plus $800 in medication every month, are you
kidding me?) plus E dealing with medical shit and being worried about his job, plus our dog being sick and miserable, plus my main source of income going under, more or less directly after I turned down a full-time job with an agency and they went and hired someone else, and with a brand new shiny car payment to meet.
I mean, seriously? Really? Come the fuck on.
I thought I had been okay with it, that I was dealing with everything beautifully, gracefully and with equanimity. Until I went to find a bagel this morning. Coffee shop after shop, no bagels. Finally, bagels. Do you have butter? I said. No, they told me. Cream cheese! they said. Okay, fine, I said. But we can't toast the bagel, they said. And I burst into tears.
Everything sucks, everything is terrifying. Right now, the loss of a steady source of income, that's the thing that's giving me this trap-door space, this yawning hole, in my belly. But the loss of my job is, someone I love very much told me, the start of something great, an opportunity to do what I really need to do, a space cleared out of junk to be filled up with something bright and beautiful. I think that could be true. Right now, I feel whatever the opposite of bright and beautiful is. Retarded and ape-like, probably. I want to drink a lot. and cry a lot and rage a lot and feel unfairly put-upon, snarl and gnash and howl and then cry some more.
It'll get better. All of it will. There are steps to take, measures to put in place, things to do and people to see. I might even do some pinging. We'll see. I'll make a plan, and it will be good, solve all my problems, and slot everything neatly into carefully labeled pigeon holes. But tonight, as is right and good, I am going to get shitfaced.