Adios, 2008, and Kiss My Ass

When 2007 had begun to wane, I was glad. It was a suck year, and I had high hopes for 2008. After all, I was hoping to start on my grad degree, we’d be getting orders for what we hoped would be a shore tour in Colorado, and there would be no more deployments for a long while.

 

Then the Effing Shrub and LT Happy stepped all up in our shit. We ended up with a follow-on surge deployment in January, the IA report date in June, and yet another year gone by living fully the single mom life plus –bonus- new graduate degree work and $150k loss in house value. 2008 sucked more balls than a M/M slash-fic character.

 

Let’s hope 2009, with all its promise (not to mention the sense that it would be hard to match much less surpass the suckage of 2008), brings us more reasons to be happy, stress-free, and thankful. I don’t know about y’all, but I was hard pressed to find a reason to smile last year.

 

Ahhhhhhh. That felt good. Last year. As in, the one that is no more. Glory be and pass the tofurkey.

 

Hey, 2008! Kiss my starfish. Buh-bye.

 

SW(*)AK

Some humor

Because I’m sure we can all use some. After all, Xmas is merely a week away, and there’s baking and wrapping and buying (gack) or purchasing awesome charity gift cards instead (yay) and family coming or travelling to do.

 

If you’re a nerd like me, and especially if you know anything about computer programming, you’ll probably find this hilarious.

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Go here. Read this. Lament with me.

You know you're in the South when...

TV’s on in the background while I get stuff done on the computer. Suddenly there’s the frenetic Morse code music that comes with a local TV station news interruption.

 

“Breaking news coming to you now! We have multiple sources confirming-”

 

And I think, oh no, there’s been another terrorist attack.

 

“At Auburn University-“

 

Oh no, another school shooting.

 

“Coach Tommy Tuberville* has been fired!”

 

*blink* Oh yeah. We’re in Alabammy now. I wonder if this has anything to do with the stunning loss to Alabama this weekend. Oi, how the hell do I know that factoid???

 

*or whatever his name is