My wife, M.F., will be having her 40th birthday next week, and we will be having a large, and fairly drunken, party for her in Chicago this weekend. She is almost visibly quivering with anticipatory excitement, so my usual January mood (i.e., sardonic, dour, and lugubrious) is beginning to wear on her a bit.
Miffed by my manner, she scolded me this morning as follows: "You need to learn to see the good in things and learn to enjoy life more. Not every bad thing that happens is all bad."
I affected a ruminative air for a moment or two and replied, "Well, I suppose you're right. For example, the evil pizza
that we ate last night gave me terrible abdominal pains and explosive diarrhea at about 4:30 this morning, so in addition to being up on time for work today, I've done a month's worth of shitting all in one go. Just think of all of the free time I'll have in February for other things."
So far as I know, we're still married, and I just might still be invited to the party.
Miffed by my manner, she scolded me this morning as follows: "You need to learn to see the good in things and learn to enjoy life more. Not every bad thing that happens is all bad."
I affected a ruminative air for a moment or two and replied, "Well, I suppose you're right. For example, the evil pizza
that we ate last night gave me terrible abdominal pains and explosive diarrhea at about 4:30 this morning, so in addition to being up on time for work today, I've done a month's worth of shitting all in one go. Just think of all of the free time I'll have in February for other things."
So far as I know, we're still married, and I just might still be invited to the party.
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I guess the red streaks in hair is sort of a fad. I was sick of blond (and it was wreaking havoc on my hair), but was unwilling to go back to just my natural dark color. The red faded out fast. But I got a lot of compliments on it and will probably see about getting it done again. Maybe the uppity girls just didn't get the red streaks--or were jealous that they didn't have the ability to think for themselves.