MLK & "Spirited Away"

Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his historic "I Have a Dream" speech 40 years ago this week. Amazing. Sometimes I get caught up in the grip of the passage of time. All the people who've lived & died in this past century who have made such monumental marks on history, on the way we think, on the people we are. Yet we're living in a time when people choose sports stars and pop/hiphop performers as their role models, not for what they've done for the world, but because of how much money they make. How much "bling bling" they display... ah well. One person can't change the world anymore. Even our own presidents are elected in a court of law instead of actually by the people, so maybe large numbers of people aren't the answer either.
On a lighter note, my husband, the ol' "Lump on the Couch" himself, is going back to work. One pillow wish fulfilled. Finally. I don't care if it's only 3 days a week, it'll pay the rent or the Chevron bill, or possibly even the rent & the electric bill... and it's my 3 days off, too, which means I'll finally have some time to myself again.
Going to the gynecologist tomorrow. I'm going to experiment w/my birth control pills this time around. See if I can just take the active pills back-to-back, skip the whole period thing altogether. Hopefully it'll work - the pills I take now have exhibited the least amount of side effects & have cleared my face up enough that I'm actually happy to see myself in the mirror some days. I like my gyno guy a lot, even if I only see him once a year. He actually listens to what you have to say before deciding what's wrong with you. Offers alternatives. Nice doctor. If anyone in Vegas needs a gynecologist, I'd recommend this one in a heartbeat. Dr Allan Boruszak (pronounced BoresZak).
Watched "Spirited Away" tonight - a Japanime movie produced or remade or something by Disney Studios. Came out last year. It was pretty cool, actually. Once we figured out what it was about, anyway. The ending was kind of sappy - no animals were killed, no one's parents died horrible deaths, causing them to run off thru the woods yelling, "Mother, mother, where are you mother?". I caught "Ol' Yeller" on tv a coupla weeks ago (followed by the sequel, "Savage Sam".) What a horrible thing to market to small children. "Good bye, Ol' Yeller..." Aaaahhhh! Noooo!

Ahhh! How do they know me so well?

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My Happiness

Why is everyone (well, ok, 2 people) so concerned about my current happiness? If no one's noticed, I've never been a happy person. I wasn't a happy kid, a happy teenager, and I'm not a happy adult. Deal with it. I don't smile, I rarely laugh, and when I do it's because something strikes me funny, not because I'm happy. I can be content - I'm pretty darn content right now, as a matter of fact. Contentedness is all I've ever wanted.
And why should it matter to anyone else whether I am happy or not? My happiness or unhappiness shouldn't cause anyone else distress. I don't get distressed when other people are unhappy. It doesn't ruin my life, so why should anyone care that I am unhappy? Maybe I like being unhappy. Did you ever think of that, huh? Well, did ya, punk?
It's my whole outlook on life - I've never expected to be happy, so therefore, when I'm not happy, it doesn't bother me, because I never expected it in the first place. Actually, when I get happy it kinda freaks me out a little. I don't know if I like being happy. I woke up on the right side of the bed this morning & haven't felt normal all day.