Laughter…Spontaneous, Righteous, Laughter…It’s a Cure, Not a Disease!

Okay, lately I’ve been noticing that there are more and more grumpy asses that are dead set on bringing down my happiness high. I like to laugh at everything, and I can find humor even in the darkness. Sometimes I think that people look at me and wonder if I have lost my mind…but the truth is I’m pretty sure that laughter keeps me sane. Who in their right mind wants to dwell on all of the bad shit in the world? I’m pretty sure an hour of CNN has enough negative and bad mojo to make even the most well balanced go off their rockers with grief and worry.

The other night Dooney called me to tell me that someone had broken into the truck to steal the stereo…the broken stereo. My first response? I laughed. I couldn’t help it. He was mad and yelling at the world, and I was laughing my ass off at the sheer stupidity of some people. I mean, they broke out the window of a 92 Chevy…damn a coat hanger would have popped that lock quicker and more quietly. Idiot kids, don’t they know anything nowadays?

True, we are going to have to replace a window on our truck when money is so tight we don’t eat a regular dinner every night, but I think that if you fail to see the humor in the situation you are missing out on a great part of humanity…the promise of laughter. If I were to sit around and dwell on every little thing that went wrong in my life I would find it hard to get out of bed in the morning, and more importantly, that’s the kind of energy I would be passing onto my little girl.

I don’t ever want her to have anxiety about the world. I want her to live in it, to enjoy it. I want her to know that I laughed the whole six days I was in labor with her. I laughed after surgery, laughed so hard I ripped out my stitches and still couldn’t stop, and I don’t regret it at all.

Every. Last. Second. Counts.

That’s the truth of the situation folks. Every single second you spend dwelling on stupid shit or the horrors of everyday life is another second you cannot get back. Time travel is not a possibility (yet). So for now we have to live in this moment…

Because of that I’ve decided that from now on I’m going to start levying an energy vampire tax on people who constantly bombard me with bad mojo. The first time will go off with just a warning, but after that I’m going to Paypal their ass for a dollar. I’m going to keep a tab, I swear to the universe.

And if you are ever around me and you see my eyebrow twitching because you’ve just said something about my laughter being inappropriate or my humor being too dark, then you should run…cuz this happy girl can lose control every now and then…but rest assured I will laugh about it later.

Not to say you can’t have an off day now and then, but if you darken my doorstep with it I’m going to bring sunshine through the rain. I laugh deep from my gut, and yes folks it shakes like a bowl full of jelly and I love it. I laugh when I’m in pain, I laugh when I’m scared, I laugh when I’m crying, I laugh when I bitch about life in general, and I laugh when things get desperate and I cannot see the horizon. It is my coping mechanism, the thing that keeps me sane, and I would be utterly and totally defenseless without it.

Are you freaking kidding me?

There are moments in time when you find yourself standing off to the side of life wondering if that really just happened to you. Recently, my life has been a lot like that. For example, I was burglarized on Christmas Day...which just seems surreal and like something that you would watch on the ten o'clock news. Then there was dealing with the insurance...which wasn't too bad, but still. And finally, there is the fact that I am now scouring internet sites and pawn shops looking for my wedding ring set.

There's the rub people. These assholes didn't just get away with my electronics (which hurts but isn't devastating), they also took my wedding rings and the heirloom jewelry that my grandmother left to me when she died. This is horrendous and I think it is a sign of what our society is coming to when people steal irreplaceable stuff just so that they don't have to work an honest eighty hours a week like the rest of us. My question is, "What makes them so f*cking special, huh?"

I'm serious, what is so bad in their life that they cannot go to work like the rest of us and put in their part to the daily grind? Everyone has bad memories in their childhood and nearly everyone has moments in their life that they wish they could erase, but that doesn't mean that we are entitled to steal possessions from other people, use drugs, or cause other mayhem. I'm tired of people being too weak to deal with their trauma. I'm tired of the excuses that they offer to the world on why they do stupid shit that hurts other people. I'm tired of feeling like I'm the only responsible person left in this world....

Why is it

That we are stuck in a rut of wanting someone to lead us? Why must we insist on being put into the slaughter gate as we surrender our freedoms up for the bloodletting?

I am tired of stupid ass people who have absolutely no common sense causing me to have extra laws to ensure my health and safety. To that I say, screw you people! I have enough crap on my hands without having to have you legislate me into a box and tell me how to live.

Just a note, just a thought, but you should all realize that while they may claim that all of these extra laws are for our benefit, that once they have that power over us, they are not going to give it back easily. With each new, smoking and junk food law that they pass, each further safety violation they concoct, they are stripping your freedoms.

Ms. Kern I expected better

I think it is a perfect example of the hypocrisy of our country when a man who sleeps with a prostitute is forced out of office, but a woman who claims that people who are gay are worse than terrorists is allowed to not only remain unapologetic and unrepentant, but also gets to keep her office.

Hate speech apparently is a far lesser offense than pre-martial sex.

Representative Sally Kern was taped recently stating that homosexuality is a far worse problem to America than Islamic terrorists. She said that the fact that we are teaching tolerance to children of others who might be gay in our public schools is the result of gays infiltrating our city councils and other governments in an attempt to press their “gay agenda.”

Well, I don’t know about Ms. Kern, but I have never thought that teaching tolerance to children was pushing any sort of agenda other than trying to make the world a slightly better place. I don’t understand how someone who is a self proclaimed die-hard Christian can be preaching against the very foundations of what Christ believed in.

His message was about tolerance and hope and she (and those like her) dare to get up in front of audiences and try to scare them into the word of god by claiming that acceptance of gay people will lead to the society’s downfall because of god’s wrath. She needs to pick a book and stick with it. Either she is an old testament believer who deigns in the wrath of an indignant god, or she is a new testament person who believes in the redeeming power of Christ’s sacrifice for ALL HUMANITY. Not just those whom he decided were worthy.

People who don’t fully study or understand their own religions piss me off, but that is far off topic. I really just wanted to point out what a lopsided world we live in when the non-violent act is punishable by expulsion from office because it is sexual in nature while the other seems to be accepted by her party for spewing hateful propaganda.

I’m not sure how Sally Kern sleeps at night knowing that her words may have helped some young gay man or woman get attacked. I mean, after all, according to her they are worse than terrorists so some ill-informed member of the public could mistakenly believe that they are acceptable targets of hate. I hope that if it does happen someone in the victim’s family at least sues the pants off Ms. Kern. At least then she might get a more public shaming for her words because I doubt she will ever feel remorse for the actions that could result from her words unless someone points it out to her.

I'm stinking tired

of having to think about the kind of incapable morons that run the government. I don't want to have to think that someone like me has more understanding of how balancing the budget, curbing wasteful spending, and ending the over-taxation of the average working man can help pull an economy out of a recession. I don't want to believe that these people have been elected to an office to represent us and yet they can completely forget what our core needs are once they get there.

I don't ask for that much. I just want to be happy, healthy, and under the impression that my government is not going to collapse in on itself b/c they can't understand that if you print more paper money, that doesn't automatically mean that you've increased your gold reserve that's backing the dollar you incompetent fool! No! Instead it means that you have just now lowered the value of the dollar yet again.

I just don't understand, I guess, how charging the hell out of small business owners (for example, my friend made 11,000 last year and owed $1,000 in taxes b/c he's self-employed), and yet rewarding those people who don't work at all so they can stay on welfare.....does that seem even remotely fair or make any kind of sense to you?

The system is broken folks, and I am going to be ranting about it from here on out. Maybe no one will listen, but maybe someone will...Maybe I'll just be getting this off of my chest so I don't fricken explode...