The New Year
January is trying my patience.
Last year at this time, lots of not so good things happened, and this year is more than keeping pace with 2002. At this point, I could go on about how terrible my life is right now, and how upset I am and yada. I almost did, as a matter of fact.
Instead, I’ll tell you something funny that MR and I discovered yesterday afternoon. Pipes can freeze in broad daylight in Alabama. Yup. It’s true, our house is proof!
Broad. Daylight. Full-on frozen pipes. Are they busted? Who knows. It won’t be warm enough for them to thaw themselves for days. Days. I never in a million years would have guessed this was possible. Not ever. But here it is.
I wasn’t laughing quite as much this morning, as I walked next door for a shower, but I’m trying to get it back now. If the pipes burst, then we’ll replace them. Such is life.
It’f funny, too, now that I think about it, that I called this site “bruised orange” when I restarted it last year… if I had an about page, I would refer to it now (I know its listed over there, but the link doesnt go anywhere). Its a Prine song, Bruised Orange (Chain of Sorrow). Its some of the best advice I’ve ever taken:
You can gaze out the window,
Get mad and get madder.
Throw your hand in the air
Say `What does it matter?’
But it don’t do no good
To get angry, so help me I know.
For a heart trained in anger
Grows weak and grows bitter
You become your own prisoner
As you watch yourself sit there,
Wrapped up in the trap
Of your very own chain of sorrow.
Basically, its just as easy to laugh as it is to cry, and in the end, laughing will help you more.
Anyway, the universe is laughing at me, so I may as well join in, right?
