Pre-work mind clearing.

[el_gumbino]

I'm mildly pleased with myself after having done all the laundry I've been putting off for the past few weeks. It felt good to pack all the dirty clothes into a collapsable hamper, grab a book, and brave the local laundromat once more. After a spirited round of washing machine roulette, I sat down to reacquaint myself with Kurt Vonnegut's Timequake

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[lucky_mcgee]

heh...why do I feel so defensive all of the sudden??? ;o)

After a recent interaction on 152nd Avenue, I can't help but feel a little guilty, and like you're trying to tell me to STFU. =oD

Sometimes I say things, and then afterwards I think, "Ugh, that totally sounded like bragging!" when I didn't really mean to.

But then other times, I just out-n-out "brag" I suppose. I don't do it to say I'm better than anybody, especially in light of the fact that I feel quite the opposite most of the time. - I think it has more to do with my (pretend) cocky-ice-princess demeanor, and has a deeper reasoning behind it than "I'm so cool." - Though I have no clue what it REALLY means....just a guess really.

However, after growing up so freaking poor, yeah, I tend to enjoy having a few nice things these days. *shrug* (Feel free to read my "poor post" if you'd like - You might understand WHY I enjoy having nicer things these days. ;o)

Now now, no need for defensiveness.

[el_gumbino]

Only after departing for work did I think you might take this one the wrong way. Chalk it up to no time for editing, nor for writing in the subtext that should've been there, but wasn't. I don't liken you to the Barber of Perryville in the least. You've never cornered me and held me as a captive audience to tales of your extravagance. The time I spend with you is spent far more willingly, and is far more rewarding.

Here's what I would liked to have written in there, but didn't:

A comparison between his sense of accomplishment at his life's work and my own at doing my laundry. The comparison/contrast would have been quite hilarious, let me tell you.

The point of view that I had, which he lacked. Namely that not only does all of it "not matter in the end," but that it doesn't even matter right now. No one can truly "own" anything other one's self, as that is the only thing that can not be taken from us (through sickness, eminent domain, or natural disaster, etc.) provided we tend to it properly.

I would never tell you to "STFU."

Re: Now now, no need for defensiveness.

[lucky_mcgee]

Only after departing for work did I think you might take this one the wrong way.

To think that it dawned on you away from the computer, and to think you thought of me personally like that made me go all squishy. ♥

And you're right...it doesn't matter in the end. But after living so long with nothing, pawning this and that to buy food for babies, etc., you know, it's pretty damned nice to NOT have to do those things anymore. Though if I had to do it again, I'd already know the ropes. ;o)

Re: Now now, no need for defensiveness.

[el_gumbino]

And you're right...it doesn't matter in the end. But after living so long with nothing, pawning this and that to buy food for babies, etc., you know, it's pretty damned nice to NOT have to do those things anymore. Though if I had to do it again, I'd already know the ropes. ;o)

Minus the babies, been there, done that. My music collection has thinned during times I felt it should've grown. You've met me on the up-swing, I think. I've KNOWN poverty, and I know that the life I live right now ain't it.

Enjoy what you've got, and don't let anyone make you feel badly for it. Certainly don't take anything >I< might say as resentment or envy, at any rate.