Moving past

Like many others, I'm starting to move past the anger, frustration and depression over the Election results.

Sure, it wasn't in the "Under 12 Hours" time frame that some people (none of you - no worries, my lovelies) seemed to expect of us, but we all take our time in recovering, you know?

Some people can bounce back easily - while others take a few days, and need a good long soak in the tub to get back to reality. You don't know how much I wanted to grab the bottles of Sweet and Sour mix, and the Amaretto - and prepare a fierce girl drink before work this morning. Then, I decided that perhaps it wouldn't be the smartest thing to do - not the smartest solution to a problem. Also, it could be construed as a problem worse than despondency.


So, that's where I am. Continuing to take my anti-depressants (along with the eleventy billion other drugs), and trying to stay happy.

Stolen from conjurdude, who borrowed it from someone else

The SERENITY NOW meme:

1. Stop talking about politics for a moment or two.
2. Post a reasonably-sized picture, NOT under an cut tag, of something pleasant, such as an adorable kitten, or a fluffy white cloud, or a bottle of booze. Something that has NOTHING TO DO WITH POLITICS.
3. Include these instructions, and share the love.

"It's time to put the trite eye candy back into LiveJournal, people."



The LUSH "Hot Milk?" Bubble Bar - Pure Yumminess.


Besides that, I got a laugh from Something Awful's Photoshop Phriday contest last week. As a matter of fact, this was my favorite book as a kid:

Anyone up for a Friday Night Fight? US of Canada vs. US of Texas!!

"Who re-wrote The Book of Love? Texas, of Course!"

Some choice selections from the article: {Italicised comments are my own.}

Board member Terri Leo, a Republican, said she was pleased with the publishers' changes. She had led the effort to get the publishers to change the texts, objecting to what she called "asexual stealth phrases" {Way to piss off the asexuals and asexuality - and I don't mean unicellular creatures, either!} such as "individuals who marry."

"Marriage has been defined in Texas, so it should also be defined in our health textbooks that we use as marriage between a man and a woman," Leo said.
Yes, because we're all so stupid, we need to have the Government define marriage for us. If people are so afraid of their marriages falling apart, why aren't they working on the internal influences - namely, what happens in their own homes - rather than fixating on how 99.99% of the populace live their lives?

Texas lawmakers last year passed a law that prohibits the state from recognizing same-sex civil unions. The state already had a ban on gay marriage.

Neither publisher added all the changes Leo initially pushed for. For instance, one proposed passage in the teacher's editions read: "Opinions vary on why homosexuals, lesbians and bisexuals as a group are more prone to self-destructive behaviors like depression, illegal drug use, and suicide."
Well, thank G*d for that. Honestly, I can think of *many* heterosexuals that are (and were) prone to those "self-destructive" behaviors. What do they say for the straight kids that do drugs, attempt suicide or suffer from depression? Are they just flaming faggots or something? Hell, why not fill those poor kids' heads with those ideas? Get the straight-as-arrows kids thinking that they're fegelehs because they'd smoked pot or they're on Prozac ... yeah, that's smart. Drive them to suicide that way, then blame it on the music.


Okay - enough of my being grumpy. What are your thoughts?