What do you do when your One True Love up and marries someone else? If you're me you cry (I DID NOT!). If you're you, you do whatever it is you do. The bride, of course, has posted a particularly lovely photo of their wedding day on Facebook, but I prefer the one from their engagement announcement. And by "prefer," I mean, "it makes me want to stab these here pens into my eyeballs." I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm taking it rather hard.
Now that October is here and my One True Love has married someone else (but I'm prettier! and a better writer! and I have my own farm!) and 2009 is three-fourths done I am going on record to say that 2009 sucks. Perhaps not as much as oh-seven, but much nevertheless. I suppose we could have some drastic about-face with these last three months but I, for one, am not holding my breath, and I suggest you (don't) do likewise. Because then you would suffocate and then you would die and I happen to like you. Oh la, we've got a lot to learn from each other we have got to stick together.
So. Now we have three items up for business. (1) The position of my One True Love, having been very ceremoniously vacated, is now available. I will be accepting applications forthwith. (2) I am completely out of ideas. Period. A little help? (3) There isn't really a third item; I just like things in threes. So I'll make two predictions: (a) I will contract H1N1 before the year is out, and (b) my odds of picking up a bot fly larva or three in Belize are 50-50. It's a coin toss.
I really think this calls for a good ol' fashioned pillow fight. For various reasons, not excluding my feeling about 2009, I'd like to be invited.
ReplyDeleteNot having a One True Love, I have no idea how that must feel, although I sure have cried many tears for far less. I hope your farm will help you get through.
ReplyDeleteI'm taking applications for a One True Love, too, so maybe we could join forces, set up a booth somewhere...
I've found 2009 rather meh, I think. I can't decide. I am also out of ideas. But at least we have our farms.
ReplyDeleteI think you'll find things far easier if you simply choose a One True Love Of The Day. There's a lot less pressure, plus it's more fun because you can choose a new hottie every day of the week! Repeats are allowed, but not recommended.
ReplyDeleteOh, Kat, you've outlined the down-side of Facebook so, so well. Having all my bad choices and mistaken assumptions about Jewish cheerleaders in high school so rudely shoved in my face is no fun at all. Who would have thought that she actually preferred goyim when her grandfather was a Rabbi? Not me, as it turns out.
Oh, well, you win some, you lose some, and others still provide a lifetime of angst and writing material.
So, at least you've got that going for you.
peefer - pillow fight or no, you are invited anywhere i'm going.
ReplyDeletemg! - well you're problem would have been solved if you'd just said hi to brooks laich when you saw him!
jennie - i can't wait for those damn elephants to grow up so i can send them to someplace where they take up less room!
ng - never trust anyone who doesn't eat bacon.
One True Love can get mighty boring when it leads to Three True Children. I think baby elephants take up less room than baby humans.
ReplyDeleteMine not only got married but had a baby. Soo, the man who swore to me he'd never marry and never be a father, well, changed his mind I guess. I had a very "When Harry Met Sally" moment when I found out. All, "It wasn't that he didn't want to get married. He didn't want to marry *ME*!" Who knows really? All I know is that it was hard. I'm sorry you're having to go through it.
ReplyDeleteI'm really hoping 2010 kicks 2009 in the ass, really hard and really high.
shari - plus also you can sell your baby elephants, which i did!
ReplyDeletepatricia - no worries; i'm sending 2010 to ninja camp. 2009 won't even know what hit it.
You're right on that: 2009, sucked; not as bad as 2007, true. Much like putting star ward, i mean, star wars, movies into preference order, I'll say 2009 - 2008 - 2007. Right-o. So it looks to be getting better. 2010, here we come.
ReplyDeleteOn the positive side, it's nearly 2010 and I have a feeling 2010 is going to be MUCH better than 2009. At least, I am hoping with all of my being that is true.
ReplyDeleteEveryday should be better than the previous day, every month better than its predecessor and every year overflowing with more joy than those before it. Find the little things in life that make you smile and enjoy them.
ReplyDeleteLife is full of varying emotions that all stem from either happiness and sorrow. It's all just a matter of focusing on the happy things and forgetting the sad things... what sad things? :)