Today

Well, mark it down. February 12, 2008 is the day I officially have had it up to here with winter. The cold, the slush, the ice, the lack of sun, the filth on the car, the layers and layers of clothes. Ugh!

Suck It, Happy People

From Slate:

A study suggests extreme happiness may be bad for you. Findings: 1) "The highest levels of income, education and political participation were reported not by the most satisfied individuals, but by moderately satisfied individuals." 2) Extremely happy people "earned significantly less money" and earned lower school grades than moderately happy people. 3) They "may not live as long," either.

Want to Vent Your Spleen . . .

. . . but need help getting started?

The (so-called) Positivity Blog offers “9 Great Ways to Make Yourself Absolutely Miserable.”

1. Compare everything you do to the lives and accomplishments of other people.
   
2. Go along with what everyone else tells you. And try to please everyone.
   
3. Live in a sea of negative voices.
   
4. Never mix things up or try something new.
   
5. Spend too much of your time in the past and/or the future.
   
6. Focus on what you don’t want.
   
7. Spend your time looking for magic pills.
   
8. Always be looking for and relying on external validation.
   
9. Take things too seriously.
   

Then focus that misery into a good spleen vent!

On Venting

So I realize the last post is getting less and less funny. At 8:23 am on December 31 . . . pretty funny. January 1 and 2 . . . still humorous. January 12 . . . well, not so much.

So if I had anything to vent about at all, it would be that I haven't had anything to vent about. And, of course, that's certainly nothing to vent about. That's something to be thankful for.

And I truly am.