Tiara Me Sue

I have friends who regularly say things like, “People suck” and “I hate people” and – unless I’m singing a song from “Scrooge” – you will never hear me say anything like that. Sure, I vent and bitch and whine about people, but overall I believe we are all good. I will go one step further and say that I think the world is a wonderful place. A ‘fucking cheerleader’ can’t change her pom-poms. - but she can drop them occasionally. I sat in some ugly traffic today. Mind you, I drive for a living and I sit in traffic regularly , but today’s commute home was especially ugly. Local peeps know how bad route 24 can get; today, I think it outdid itself. You all know what it’s like when the traffic is bad, and how some people will go to great lengths to get out of it. They cut people off dangerously, they weave in and out of the lanes, they play ‘bully’ and try to use their vehicle to move others out of their way, they’ll chase emergency vehicles that may have to fight their way t...

Yesterday's day off was the direct result of the major work snafu that happened the day before, keeping me out much longer and later than scheduled - the cherry on top of dark week. Today's day off was scheduled, and still taken. We all know it takes more than one day to recover and to make up for everything else the ball was dropped on, and I already know I will not catch up on all I didn't do last week. Knowing that, I gave myself a full-day pass yesterday and made today a day to get some things done with the promise that I will be happy with whatever I get done, however little it is. That being said, yesterday's “nothing” involved some old-school curling of my hair with the silly, squishy wraps you wear to bed. Why? Because I still had them and was trying to decide if I should keep them; because they were there; because I needed to see that I was able to finally ‘do’ my hair again after last year’s often-cried-over haircut; because even when I'm doing nothin...