I think this is very funny.

I can feel my brain gradually deteriorating, dissolving like something...dissolvable. Dissolvable is a word, though some spell checks would say otherwise, adding to the feeling. Memory is my greatest weakness - if I could just effortlessly remember half of what I thought about or wanted to do, I'd be golden. At least silver. One of the scariest moments I've experienced was having this one epiphany, then a couple days later reading something I'd written years earlier about having the exact same epiphany.

Entropy's a bitch!

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http://listverse.com/entertainment/top-15-film-misquotes/

[[Among the hardest to believe:

"Mirror, mirror on the wall" was never said in Snow White.

"Play it again, Sam" was never said in Casablanca.

"Beam me up, Scotty" was never said in Star Trek.]]


"Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our
fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is
true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I am in Their Debt

So, I got a little overzealous in paying off my smaller-balance credit card, to the point that I had to deposit every dollar bill I could find (one, to be precise, along with a ten) to make my minimum payment on the •other• card and have 8 cents left to my name. Of course, this ended up dipping below thanks to shady banking practices, but hey, let them have their $35 fee, again. I'll be free of their clutches before long. Provided I continue to ignore any and all health problems until I (most likely) get health care toward the end of March.

My progress will slow considerably now, since I used almost all of my tax return, birthday/christmas money, and that month's worth of 80-hour-a-week paychecks to get this far.

I don't know why I think that focusing so much on eliminating this debt will free me from slavery to money, but I do.

"How Long? Not Long.

Cause what you reap
is what you sow."

To the commenters, again

Laurie - yes, I was [a very committed] Adams, and no, I've not heard of Phil! So I guess I'll go look him up.

Chu - Happy year of the rat to you, too! I just found out I'm a pig instead =(

Rich - Still Alive is my new favorite song

Silver Lining, vol. 2

I still love guacamole.

The clouds:
On Saturday, I met a friend at Chipotle.
We had different meals, but both partook in the Chips con guacamole, or as it is called on their menu, "Chips with Guacamole."
Much later that night, we would both become quite vehemently ill - if you object to my word choice, I will be happy to explain to you how I "showed strong feeling; was forceful, passionate, intense" - and remained ill for the following two days.

The silver lining:
My friend had just been saying on Saturday that she had a Chipotle adddiction that was costing her dearly, and while she meant monetarily, I might have added calorically (not that she's plus-sized, but any one of those burritos could feed a busload of starving teenagers).
So she is obviously cured of that affliction, at least for a while!

I'm still considering what my own silver lining might be in this situation, but so far I can only assume that if I had been able to get out of bed on Sunday, some terrible fate would have befallen me. Soooo....cool, still alive!