GETTING THE GUMPTION TO GET UP AND AT ‘EM!
I have to admit, these days, it takes a certain amount of good ole’ gumption to get myself out of bed at all. It has been a frantic month and I can count on a frantic couple of months to come. I’m feeling the stress.
Finally, after relaxing enough to enjoy retirement, I feel like I’m back on a treadmill. I suppose I should feel good about it because it will have — I believe — good results and make our world a better place. Nonetheless, it has been a rough road. I’ve worked hard at unknotting the stress mess I’d become by the time I quit work and realized I wasn’t going to do it anymore. Now, it’s back.
Gumption is a great word and one you don’t hear much anymore. I remember when it was quite common, but our language has turned into a kind of internet shorthand and all the gorgeous, rich words seem to be disappearing. “LOL” and “OMG” and the like will never give us the feeling or wealth our previous language allowed.
These days, it’s had to have the gumption to just get on with it and survive. From a relatively peaceful world — which had its problems, mind you — we have been tossed willy-nilly into a nightmare world where everything we believed before makes no sense.
As I said: It takes a fair bit of gumption to just get up in the morning and face the day.
Does anyone think it is going to get easier? Yesterday, they actually locked up Manafort. I think that was the first thing all week that made me feel almost good.
World? Throw me a few crumbs! I need hope to keep on keeping on!
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RASPY FOR THAT FIRST ANNOYING CALL OF THE MORNING – Marilyn Armstrong 
GOT YOU IN THE CROSSHAIRS — Marilyn Armstrong 
TRIBUTE TO THE DETERMINED SQUIRREL – Marilyn Armstrong 
DO YOU HAVE THE KEYS TO THE UMBRAGE? – Marilyn Armstrong 
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 
Sadly, we are fed crumbs and told it is a banquet and why aren’t we feasting? At least, that is why I continue to hunger for justice and a sense of balance in a world turned topsy-turvy. (How’s that for an old-fashioned word?)
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I think the current awful state of things bothers me more than I am willing to admit. But if it doesn’t “get me” during the day, it gets me in my sleep.
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This morning I wanted to stay in bed. No particular reason, but I sat on the edge of the bed and thought „do I really want to do this?“. I suppose common sense took over, but I so wanted to forget the daily routine
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Oh, ME TOO. I was having stress dreams about driving and accidents and I cleaned yesterday, so I figured “If I don’t get up, will it REALLY matter?” Then I got up. Actually, getting up usually makes me feel better. I just have to push through to do it.
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Maybe Trump will get impeached one day, we can only hope.
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Impeached, found guilty, removed from office, and thrown in jail.
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And the rest of his crowd with him. Amen.
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For sure!
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I’ll bring the handcuffs. You bring the champagne.
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My, what a strange fetish you seem to have…!
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The handcuffs or the champagne?
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The combo. I know plenty of folks into the handcuff stuff, and plenty into the champagne, but not many who bring both on a date.
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It depends on the date. With T-dump? All bets are off.
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I just wouldn’t bother going out with him, you know? Even thirty+ years ago he was a bloated loser that I wouldn’t have wasted my time on if he had sat next to me in a bar, and yet some people went with him for money. Poor everyone.
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Thirty years ago I was 41 and he was a loser then too. But these days, IF I could cuff him and hand him over to the nearest penitentiary? I would be one happy camper. Oh how he deserves a LONG prison term.
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Completely agreed. I’d want all the rest of the crooks to go too.
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