NOTE: I started this diary a month and a half ago while still in Colorado, but could only think of the first 50. I write the other 50 tonight while in Wisconsin and quite depressed.
Wildfires raging in Russia Colorado. The world economy in a constant downward spiral. Unemployment. Bankruptcy. Having to pack up and move. Having to ask relatives for money and/or a place to stay. Lack of adequate healthcare. 2 1 absolutely horrendous and ridiculous war still raging in a faraway land. Gitmo's still open. Dick Cheney is still a free man. Taylor Momsen.
The oil spill.
It's enough to make you want to throw yourself off a cliff. I'm having a serious problem with outrage overload right now, and I can't imagine that I'm the only one.
So I figured that highlighting a few reasons to want to live might be nice.
100 REASONS NOT TO KILL YOURSELF (YET!) *
August 8, 2010 and September 16, 2010
by Shiz
- Really good music.
- Really good sex.
- Really good sex while listening to really good music.
- Chocolate.
- A cool breeze on a warm day.
- Colorado sunshine.
- Mountains.
- Puppies and kitties.
- Kids.
- A baby's smile.
- A baby's laugh.
- Babies!
- Gay rights! Yay! We can haz it!
- I simply have to see how the Harry Potter movie series turns out.
- Yeah, same goes for the Twilight movies. Shut up.
- Picnics.
- That moment at a rock concert right after the lights go out and before the band starts. Priceless. Gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.
- Driving down a country backroad, with the windows down and the music blaring, on a hot summer afternoon.
- Books that you absolutely, positively cannot put down.
- Smelly candles.
- Good body lotion.
- Planning vacations. Sometimes, that's more fun than the actual vacation itself.
- Lingerie. Yeah. :)
- Your favorite flavor of ice cream. (I'm butter pecan.)
- The very best dish that you cook. (I make a killer fried chicken.)
- Hot springs. And whirlpools, too.
- The Grand Canyon.
- Travel. I simply must go more places, goddamnit! (But probably not Russia right now.)
- Risk, The Game of World Domination. Mwahahahahaha!
- Craig Ferguson. 'Nuff said.
- The Balinese Monkey Chant! You will never know how much I love this:
- Your favorite author. I'm going with Christopher Moore.
- Rachel Maddow.
- Jon Stewart.
- Stephen Colbert.
- Holidays with family that are actually enriching and rewarding.
- Any pictures that prove you were once 100 pounds lighter.
- Remembering how hot you were 20 years ago.
- Michael Jackson's Thriller.
- Excellent massages.
- The Onion.
- Saturday Night Live.
- A Christmas Story. "You'll shoot yer eye out, kid!"
- Laughing so hard that your stomach hurts.
- Cheese.
- The first snowfall of the season.
- Making new friends, especially ones you feel that you've known for years.
- Lightbulb moments that make you feel awake and alive.
- Memories of your first love.
- Learning new things.
- Finally reading shit on your Bucket List, and coming away both wiser and moved.
- The fact that you can read and write.
- The fact that you don't live (at least, not yet) in a place like Iran.
- Alan Grayson.
- Al Franken.
- Bernie Sanders.
- President Barack Obama.
- Gracious and loving honesty.
- Moments with kids (either your own or those you know) that make you giggle and question your own motives.
- Seeing an amazing play or musical that makes you cry so hard that your heart aches.
- Being included in something you never expected to be included into.
- Being introduced to something you find wildly intoxicating.
- Daily Kos.
- Being intoxicated while on Daily Kos.
- Being intoxicated.
- Legalized marijuana! We can haz it!
- (Pause) Has anybody seen Trix?!
- Taking chances you never imagined you would take.
- Becoming stronger than you ever knew possible.
- Nieces and nephews! They seriously rock!
- Science and/or spirituality. (Or both.)
- Food that's so good it makes you wonder whether or not it's drugged.
- Absolutely amazing, natural, physical beauty.
- Absolutely amazing, natural, inner beauty.
- Making love on a humid summer night during an awesome thunderstorm. (Ahem.)
- Awesome thunderstorms.
- I have to go to Netroots Nation next year!
- Feelings of love (and/or lust) that make your skin sizzle. The ones where you're all nervous and excited at the exact same time, and where you're sure you've morphed back into the geek you were in 8th grade.
- Geeks! Yay, geeks!
- The motherfucking stupid, intentionally ignorant, and racist teabaggers. (Heh.)
- Mark Morford. Hot damn, I love him.
- Frank Rich.
- Gail Collins.
- Good stories you can repeat ad nauseum at cocktail parties.
- That one time, at band camp?
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
- People magazine.
- Uhm, sports! (I'm not into 'em, but I hear that others are.)
- Watching the sun rise.
- Watching the sun set.
- Fiddler on the Roof. ;)
- Recycling.
- Hybrid and electric cars.
- Wind farms!
- Volunteering.
- Helping someone, just for the sake of helping someone.
- Your very favorite memory of all time. (Conjure it up now!)
- Being able to vote and make your voice heard.
- Being able to imagine a better tomorrow.
- Tomorrow.
* This list is subject to change at any time, for any reason, with or without explanation. :P