Stairway to Heaven

It's probably a bad sign when in a stairwell the thought crosses your mind to throw oneself down it to avoid work and life in general. Yeah, that's probably not good. Although I did hear that Tuesday is the most stressfull day of the week since we have to catch up on all avoided during Monday's weekend recap. You know I never felt like Tuesday was so bad until I heard that. Thanks radio.

It is a little hard to be cheerfull or optomistic in this economy though. The weather hasn't been helping. Actual, nothing is 'helping' and everyone I know seems to be pretty darn miserable lately. I'm not sure what is going to kick everyone out of their ruts, but I hope it happens soon. Summer has to come eventually and sunshine always makes me feel better. I knew I needed a mental break so although I could not take a full week off, or afford to go to the Carribean or even FL like I wanted, I took a few days and went to see the folks. It's always interesting going back to upstate NY.

I present subject A.


Yes, that IS a full camoflaged truck. And yes, the driver was also wearing full camo gear. The back said something like "Ducks Umlimited" and had stickers of flying ducks all over it. Hot. SExy. Not something you see much around DC now is it?

Aside from that fun encounter, it seems that the gods above like to consistently remind me why I left Syracuse by demonstrating their typical weather patterns from the moment I cross state lines. This trip was no exception. I have heard they've had rather nice weather the past few weeks from my mother, and I knew we were having some nice sunshine and 60's coming our way, but I went NOrth anyways. What did I get? Snow. That's right, snow. I'm not talking a few flakes mixed in with the rain, i'm talking break out your snowbrushes - where did the grass go?- 4 inches of snow. WHATEVER Syracuse. I'm not moving back, OK? Happy? You can take your cheap cost of living and lousy job market and bury it out back under the snowman that never melts. I GET it.

I've also noticed at a few family functions that my family has increased in size without adding people. I also blame this on the general depression cloud that is upstate NY. What did I do all weekend long? Eat. Yep, I think I probably packed on 5 lbs. in 3 days with the Doug's Fish Fry, Dinosaur BBQ, half-moon cookies, and general onslaught of homemade meals. Granted, I wouldn't eat like that all the time if I still lived there, but there isn't much else to do aside from go out to eat.

Although, in contrast, I have heard that southern states are the fattest...so maybe that just blows my theories out of the water...although you do need more calories to survive a heavy winter so..

..anyways, I am looking forward to some sort of lift from this cloud of gloom that just seems to be everywhere. Nice weather please show up and make people less miserable, economy please recover, face swelling please go down, and while i'm at it can I have some insight into what the whole point of life is? It was worth a shot.