Thundercloud

This is no commentary on the weather. But if you’d like an update, we are finally getting down out of the triple digits for the year…although not this weekend. The week has been in the 90’s but we are warming back up again today. Whatever. Honestly, you can feel a difference between 100 and 110 I assure you. And after 3+ months of it, 100 feels nice.

No, this is about my mood. For many reasons I seem to be walking around with a thundercloud over my head. I came out to the blog today and saw that my last entry was August 29. I scanned over the contents again and realized I had absolutely nothing new to write about and another entry would just resemble that one. Why not just copy and paste the stupid thing and call it a day? See? Thundercloud…..

What used to be a place to come and examine my thoughts has recently become a place to come and realize I have nothing new to say. Does my life have to be filled with adventure daily? No. Lord knows if it was I would just find ways to complain about that too.

I suppose part of the angst is that I can’t complain about work out here. No, I pretty much guaranteed that would be a bad idea. Still, I suppose it’s for the best for all of us that I don’t give myself an open platform to really whine. It must be my self-censorship that is chaffing me in bad places.

So now that I am sitting here thinking about bad moods, I am wondering realistically how long I can actually hold on to it? Have you ever really tried to hold on to one? I suppose if it is really focused on a person or situation it might be easier. But what about just a plain old bad mood? I know what you’re thinking…why would you want to hang on to it? I was just thinking that it might be an interesting experiment to see what’s possible. Unfortunately (for the experiment) I am already distracted and not nearly as cranky.

Here are the top 5 reasons now working against my bad mood today:

1. It’s Friday
2. It’s pay day.
3. I just made a fresh pot of coffee and am drinking it out of my “Cake or Death” mug.
4. Money was transferred into my Keane concert fund today.
5. My cherry pants/ hoodie combination actually matches today. Not that it matters, but it just happened so I can totally classify this outfit as “effortless.”
   

It feels very Seinfeld-esque to spend time talking about nothing, but since it makes me feel better, why not? And speaking of Jerry, have you seen the new commercials with him and Bill Gates? They are really kind of cute. Still, I would have to say my favorite commercials are still the eTrade talking baby and the Tide Stain stick talking stains. THOSE are hilarious. The job interview is my favorite.

Fine…I can’t even keep a bad mood going. I don’t know if I should be upset about it or not.