By Eleanor's standards I was being small-minded in yesterday's post about the Best Man and his shitty wedding toast. So I've decided that today I will elevate myself to average-minded status by discussing an event instead.
Let's talk about how I just lost my job. Ah look at me, I'm feeling average already! Technically, I was "indefinitely furloughed" yesterday wtf?! Basically, they're still leaving the door open to bring me back should they actually start to make money and be able to pay the light bill again. Of course, if I wait around indefinitely for their circumstances to change, my lights will get shut off. So uh, sorry dudes but I've gotta follow the cash. If that means becoming a drug mule for the local Brazilian mob, so be it. A Flamingo's gotta put shrimp on the table somehow.
Feeling a bit deflated upon hearing the "we-hate-to-have-to-do-this" speech, I went in search of some inspirational words of wisdom. And Internet, I had no idea that Eleanor Roosevelt was so prolific in her wisdom! Seriously, that woman must have talked non-stop. oops, small mind alert! So today, let us take a look at unemployment through the eyes of one of our greatest First Ladies*.
*with comments by one of our smallest minds
"A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water."
At first this sounded great and I was all "I am woman, hear me roar" but then I got skeeved out by the idea that Eleanor Roosevelt said tea bag....
"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."
Even if that experience is cat food?
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."
Just what I always wanted to be, a bag lady with character.
"I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on."
Gee Eleanor, when you put it like that, I guess unemployment isn't gonna be so bad after all. That fireside looks great. Pass the chianti...
This makes our conversation four days prior seem quite ironic, no?
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