Let Go

Hello Friday! And what a Friday you are.

Okay, lets get this out of the blog way.

John was let go from his job yesterday.

Yes, boo. Very much boo. The timing is ridiculous, just ridiculous, but as everyone keeps reminding me…this is marriage right here, so do it up.

John is FINE, we are fine, everyone is fine. I think my man was a bit blindsided and shocked, but he is in good spirits, letting go of the stress that the job caused and finding the joy in the possibilities that lie in front of him. He’s so brave and awesome and sturdy and excellent and has so many people that love him and want to see him succeed, he’s going to be fine. We all are. So it’s okay. It’s okay.
Sigh.

I’m going to segue now because 1. there isn’t anymore to say really and 2. I don’t particularly want to write about it much.

SO! You might think I only rat on McCain and Hillary, but that’s not true. Today, because I’m antsy, I’ll rat on Obama too. DUDE, this is partly your doing. The fact Hillary and Bill BOTH have big time speeches at YOUR convention and that her name is on the nomination…well…I can’t blame everything on them can I? It was/is your responsibility to put the kibosh on this. You cannot please everyone, you WON! You did it! Own it, love it, be it…you are the nominee; you choose how this goes down. So ball up dude, stop making compromises all over everything and stand beanpole tall and kick ass and take names and whatever it is you do. Just do it already.

In other news, I finished Martin Dressler. What a weird book. I didn’t really enjoy that much. Failed American Dream book written in 1997 about like…1887. Man starts in cigar shop, moves into hotel, becomes manager of hotel, builds his own hotel, gets out of control with plans on his own hotel, loses hotel. There…that’s Martin Dressler.

At the encouragement of my big brother, I picked up The Road. It is also a Pulitzer so it fits in with my reading plan, but I read Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy and hated every second of it, so I was leery about The Road.

Which I shouldn’t have been because it is EXCELLENT. It is beautiful and it is haunting and depressing but most of all I find it quite suspenseful. I want to know what happened, what is happening and I have to force myself not to skip over the lovely writing to find out what happened. Because I bet that we never really find out.

Alright, I gotta get through the rest of this afternoon so I can take care of my honey (and by that I mean Remo) and eat. Because that’s what pre-married couples get to do when one of them gets laid off. Eat.