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vicarzI hate this holiday but don't want to take it from others. This year I have 2.5 days of paid leave, so it's hard to argue.
I've lived in this neighborhood since 1995 but for the first time we've just had a series of package thefts. They caught a man from PG County in Arlington, but it's unlikely as he lifted from houses that he was able to come to our hood and pop through multiple security doors. http://www.wusa9.com/story/news/local/arlington/2014/12/23/arlington-police-package-thief-keith-moore/20803461/ The video has our local cop, "Kip the cop," (also known as Kip the gay cop, but that's less relevant over time) being all famous and stuff. Kip is pretty cool - laid back, light hand enforcement theory, an officer so he doesn't really have to do the day to day stuff, and walks his rescued dog around our 'hood. We have security doors, and while sometimes residents get the security codes, we just don't have a history of having problems other than a random angry ex situation.
It's xmas so a lot of my friends are sad, angry, and medicated. There are some recent breakups, lots of fights, financial issues, and of course fucking family. Me, things are actually pretty good in my life. It's been a sine wave of feelings - mostly of my own creation, but things are leveling out. I have some sad people in and around my life, but slowly things are getting better (I think). My family situation isn't the best, but I'm used to it - as I said in facebook: immunized. I wasn't kidding, I joked "Thank you mom for immunizing me against being manipulated by others." It's true - I've had every threat, guilt trip, and passive-aggressive trick used on me over time. I've had to call the cops and wonder if someone would survive. It hurts, but it's not unfamiliar - I can take it and function. Yay family.
I have this pretty awesome girlfriend, or partnership where we are exclusively seeing and committed, and it's still new and sparkly. My house is forever away, but still theoretically going to happen and the final product has gotten more exciting with each passing day. Work is not just fine but good and continuing to get better - every day it seems my incompetence will be discovered later and later. Even my car is running well. Surgery is about to happen, but it sounds manageable and the pain has an end point - in fact it may mean I can go back to progress in the gym for my entire body instead of just chest - shoulders - back progress.
I'm an adult so my best case scenario is quiet. But you know? I'll take it.
I hope your holiday season doesn't suck.
I've lived in this neighborhood since 1995 but for the first time we've just had a series of package thefts. They caught a man from PG County in Arlington, but it's unlikely as he lifted from houses that he was able to come to our hood and pop through multiple security doors. http://www.wusa9.com/story/news/local/arlington/2014/12/23/arlington-police-package-thief-keith-moore/20803461/ The video has our local cop, "Kip the cop," (also known as Kip the gay cop, but that's less relevant over time) being all famous and stuff. Kip is pretty cool - laid back, light hand enforcement theory, an officer so he doesn't really have to do the day to day stuff, and walks his rescued dog around our 'hood. We have security doors, and while sometimes residents get the security codes, we just don't have a history of having problems other than a random angry ex situation.
It's xmas so a lot of my friends are sad, angry, and medicated. There are some recent breakups, lots of fights, financial issues, and of course fucking family. Me, things are actually pretty good in my life. It's been a sine wave of feelings - mostly of my own creation, but things are leveling out. I have some sad people in and around my life, but slowly things are getting better (I think). My family situation isn't the best, but I'm used to it - as I said in facebook: immunized. I wasn't kidding, I joked "Thank you mom for immunizing me against being manipulated by others." It's true - I've had every threat, guilt trip, and passive-aggressive trick used on me over time. I've had to call the cops and wonder if someone would survive. It hurts, but it's not unfamiliar - I can take it and function. Yay family.
I have this pretty awesome girlfriend, or partnership where we are exclusively seeing and committed, and it's still new and sparkly. My house is forever away, but still theoretically going to happen and the final product has gotten more exciting with each passing day. Work is not just fine but good and continuing to get better - every day it seems my incompetence will be discovered later and later. Even my car is running well. Surgery is about to happen, but it sounds manageable and the pain has an end point - in fact it may mean I can go back to progress in the gym for my entire body instead of just chest - shoulders - back progress.
I'm an adult so my best case scenario is quiet. But you know? I'll take it.
I hope your holiday season doesn't suck.
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Date: 2014-12-24 05:54 pm (UTC)You kept that one under your hat! Congrats :) Hope your Xmas doesn't suck either.
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