Drew Carey Quote

Oh, you hate your job? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.

So true.

My old company used to bank on morale to retain her employees, pretty much because other companies offer much higher pay and better benefits. The management team had to be in charge of helping keep their agents' sanities intact, and because of all the pressure from higher management and from their own teams, they had to find vent by making the term "work-life balance" actually mean something. I was part of a group that we used to fondly call "Skul Bukul", which basically met up once a week to exclusively criticize (even ridicule) the shit that stinks the most at the workplace, over akopol op beers.

There's none of that where I'm at now.

So now that my support group is gone, I suddenly felt the void and found its effect on me about two weeks ago while I was in front of the mirror--my first grey hair (and my parents' and grandparents' first grey hairs only appeared when they were in their sixties, and I'm only 27!).

I don't wanna wait for my first wrinkle to appear before I demand for intervention. Where did EVERYBODY go???

The path to Inebriation

something I dug up. enjoy.

The path to inebriation….
"I am going to drink myself into a low level of intelligence tonight" -anon
The capacity to drink oneself into a blind stupor is something I have yet to do…not for a lack of imbibing but rather the possible reluctance to completely lose self control and possibly end up in a ditch somewhere.
The call of catatonia is getting stronger and although I am distracting myself with mindless pursuits I realize that sooner or later I will crack - and it won’t be pretty. Thus the desire to drink myself blind tonight. I theorize that getting juiced and passing out is far far better than cracking in broad daylight and humiliating yourself in front of pseudo friends by declaring how you really percieve the shallow workings of their judgmental worlds and how, sadly, you have fallen back into the rut that you have just thought yourself out of (ie having warm fuzzy feelings for another human being outside of your gene pool) and that things are not going well in the control and planning department. You are stumped. And you are going to stop blogging now and actually get off your ass and find that drink.
You consider me alcoholic? That my friend, is a matter of perception. I consider myself a whole many things right now.
Cheers.

If is good...

"If? If is good..." Panic, from Disney's Hercules.

To paraphrase the jumble of disjointed thoughts that threaten to overcome my now disproven sense of logic: If I could maybe stop being weird for five minutes, everything would be fine.

If I could just let go of twenty odd years of neuroses build-up and allow myself a fresh start, maybe, just maybe I could act like a normal human being in the face of what could be a normal conversation that I, in my screwed up present self, refuse to listen to.
You're right, I make no sense. I don't get it myself either. The only thing I get right now is that I am a bumbling idiot who should be tied to a log buried in chest deep seawater until she was finally honest enough to admit defeat and have the sense to swim back to shore.
If I could just shut up and listen, sidestep the prescribed girl melodrama and just BE, I'd avoid all this unnecessary blogging at one in the morning.
If I wasn't so damned stubborn sometimes, I could be onto something worth being temporarily illogical for.

If I smile at the fates and offer them afternoon tea, would they accept the invite?

If I got down on my knees to pray tonight, would my creator understand that I'm trying, really trying, to get the lesson (and courtesy laughs) hidden in this hilarious scene.?

If...If is good.

21 Lines I Borrow From Cartoons

1. If you can’t say nothing nice, don’t say nothing at all. (Thumper, Bambi)

2. “Family” means nobody gets left behind, or forgotten. (Lilo, Lilo & Stitch)

3. I’m normally not a religious man, but if you’re up there, save me, Superman! (Homer, The Simpsons)

4. How dare you take advantage of my blithering idiot! (Ren, Ren & Stimpy)5. Donkey, you have the right to remain silent. What you lack is the capacity. (Shrek, Shrek 2)

6. I’m not fat. It’s all this hair. It makes me look puffy. (Manny, Ice Age)

7. There’s no monster in your closet Boo, I promise. (Sulley, Monsters, Inc.)

8. I’m not bad. I’m just drawn that way. (Jessica Rabbit, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?)

9. Your shallowness is so shallow, that it’s depth. (Daria, Daria)

10. Love is like handing someone a gun, having them point it to your heart, and trusting them not to pull the trigger. (Spongebob, Spongebob Squarepants)

11. “Diet” is “die” with a “t”. (Garfield, Garfield and Friends)

12. Oh well, back to the drawing board. (Marvin the Martian, Looney Toons)

13. Let’s drink til we don’t feel feelings anymore. (Peter, Family Guy)

14. “If”? “If” is good… (Panic, Hercules)

15. Put your behind in the past. (Pumbaa, Lion King)

16. Follow your dreams. You can reach your goals. I’m a living example. Beefcake! Beefcake! (Cartman, South Park)

17. Stop in the name of all that which does not suck! (Butthead, Beavis and Butthead)

18. Accepting my own errors, the team needs balance. Balance, yes. Therefore, to successfully take over the world, a sacrifice must be made. One of us must be an imbecile. (Brain, Pinky and the Brain)

19. I must not fear! Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. (Peter, Earthworm Jim)

20. Not now, Peter, I'm laughing at Fate. (Jim, Earthworm Jim)

21. ...And I shall rule the world! (Plankton, Spongebob Squarepants)


Also posted at http://www.furballchronicles.blogspot.com/

Good Riddance, 2008!

It was the unluckiest year of my life, and I sure hope 2009 will be much better. Where are the damn vodkas?!?

Blooferlady's Response to Going Ice Queen

Just keep an eye out for the ones who are taken, please, lest we have the budget for vodkas every night. Mwehehe.

Side comment: keep a safe distance (a five-mile radius will do). Seriously, they're dangerous people. When on the red zone, again, follow old Eraserheads credo: shake yer head and walk away.

Going Ice Queen hurts everytime

So I'm sitting there feeling slightly elated over the news that someone was possibly attracted to me.... when it hits me - I'm now possibly attracted to him because of his attraction to me. And then another thing hits me - I'm back to that very dangerous point where I just may be tempted to be idiotic and go beyond the "you may look but not touch" borders.
In the span of time that it takes for twenty-four frames to cross the screen, I crossed over to the bittersweet realization that I now had to retreat behind my jaded walls of not giving a rats ass over anyone. I had to go ice queen mode lest a harmless infatuation turn into another black hole of drunken nights wondering what the hell was wrong with me.
So there I was, now at the point where I had to say a mental goodbye to something that could have been, simply because it could not ever be. He was, after all, engaged.