Onward and "Upward"?

So... time to get back in the blogging groove.  But not much to report, such is my boring life. 

A few life and misc observations of late....

1)  Losing pets take a greater toll on you psychologically than most people think.  A friend of mine who is a shrink, said that upwards of close to 80% of people who have pets that die wind up getting a new pet in less than 90 days.  Some of them get a new one before the old one even passes away.  Some continue this cycle for many years, if not decades or even their whole lives, and according to him, while it helps them deal with the loss of a pet, it's a "safety net" that they use to keep from having to deal with grief.  

It's now been 7 1/2 months since my last one passed - still haven't got another one yet.  I think people lost money bets on me due to that. LOL.  Time as I said before for a new (and different) chapter in my life's book.  I might talk about it to "vent" a good bit for therapy (thanks to those who put up with that), but change needs to happen.


2)  Diets:  How is it that we can gain a pound overnight if we eat some Oreos, but it takes a full week of heavy dieting to lose that same pound?  Who invented that  idea??   Started my weight loss bit last month.  Between the dogs and a variety of other "stuff" in my life I allowed myself to get depressed/stressed, and since I'm a stress eater, well, that's not good.  Eating less, eating a bit better, drinking mostly water now, etc.. nothing severe yet.  Have lost 8 pounds in the last 5 weeks.  Slowly but surely as they say.  


3)  What drives the mentality of people who seem to spend every waking moment of their lives posting slanderous stuff about Obama online?  I fully admit that I did not vote for the guy, and didn't think he was qualified for the job - that being said, I didn't vote for McCain either for a couple of valid reasons, too.  But the fact is, we had an election, the people voted, it was legal, and a guy won.  Let the guy TRY to do his job for his four years, ok?  I mean there are people who seem to spend HOURS in every day doing nothing but posting smart assy stuff about the guy, who will take any and every opportunity to do it.  Seriously?  Is your life truly that  sad?  There's an election coming up.  If you don't like the way things are, then get off your ass and go vote.  Until then please, shut up a little and live your life.  


4)  Last, the Olympics.  Did anyone actually get to SEE much of it in-between the automobile commercials on TV and NBC's poor handling of it all?   I gave up on day 3.  Thank god for inventing DVRs .... fast forwarding through the commercials makes it slightly more bearable.


I'm still getting back into the swing of blogging again, so put up with me a bit.  Thanks.

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