Occupy Wall Street

I had a revelation the other day.  Well, more like a part of an idea that caught my attention.  I was reading about the health care coverage gap - some poor people can't get subsidies for health care AND don't qualify for Medicare.  Regardless of what you think about the healthcare law, that's kinda effed up.

It got me thinking, as a country, our priorities are a little out of order.  Why are we trying to fix other countries when our own citizens don't have homes, access to education, nutritional knowledge and means to buy food?

Then I realized Aaron Sorkin had already summed up my thoughts for me.

Someday, Occupy Wall Street, or something very similar will rise again.  And after all the uncomfortable stuff is over, this will be a better country.  Or there will be war.

Being an adult means filing taxes...

I was trying to be all adult-like and get some stuff done tonight.  Like buying tickets for my upcoming trips and filing my taxes.  Turns out I have to budget money to buy airfare+hotels+car packages.  Who knew?  And one of my employers got my SSN wrong on my W-2.  So that's that.

I've been reading some super interesting articles lately, so I thought I'd share a few.  This one is about getting participation trophies and how kids either feel embarrassed or entitled because of it and that can affect us as adults.  This one is about the Philly Land Bank and the effort to turn our abandoned lots into actual revenue producing properties that raise value and moral.  Very interesting thing for our city - I really hope it works.

Keepin' it short and sweet.

Parties and Such

I've been wanting to post an update for a few weeks, and there have been two reasons why I haven't.  1) I haven't been doing so well going to the gym or eating well - not terribly, but not awesome.  Like mediocre.  That's been making me feel bad and generally bringing my mood down.  2)  My computer has been sucking balls.  It's a few (read 5-6) years old and the insides were getting gunky.  You know the drill - 5 minutes to switch between browser tabs, etc.  

But I have great news - I overcame my computer problems and fixed them myself.  And now it works great.  Even though I apparently need new RAM or memory or both or something.

Last night, the throwback PSP party happened!  I organized it, no big deal, and it went off without a hitch despite my irrational anxiety about it beforehand.  The cops only came once and we kicked the keg and everyone seemed to have a really great time.  Success!  There were a few people who were unable to come that I really would have loved to see, but, there's always another time.  I also handled my anxiety really well during the entire thing - didn't black out, paced myself, and was sober without spins when I got home.  Also didn't have that usual drunk shame the next day.

My overall blahness is still around.  I'm going to the gym all this week, so that should help.  Otherwise, I just need another hobby or project or something to work on.  I was working on cleaning my crap up and starting to digitize all of my old paper files that are hanging around.  But that's less than inspiring.

So, I don't know, we'll see.  I feel like January and February are always the hardness months for me personally to shake off my depression and anxiety issues.  Especially with all the changes that have been going on lately.  Guess I"ll just keep on keeping on.