Reality Check

"I've gotten away with not shaving all week. I am not sure if I am going to break the cycle or stick to what's working," I said.

"You haven't gotten away with it all week. It's not working," she told me sternly.

Illusions shattered, I glanced down at my legs. Of course I could see the hair there, but do other people really pay that close attention when I am out and about?

Apparently, yes.

Incontinence Sunday

I paused, unsure what to do, as I made eye contact with the black and white beast.

A snake.

A snake in the stairwell of my apartment building.

What the fuck?!

As I have been an apartment dweller for nearly a year now, dog and I have a daily routine of going for walks so that he is able to evacuate his bladder and bowels in a location that is not my floor. This is why I found myself to be in that particular stairwell, at approximately 11 pm on a Sunday night, face-to-scaly-face with a two foot long snake that was very clearly not indigenous to the area.

The dog seemed confused. The snake seemed angry and frightened. I seemed questionably in keep control over my own bowels.

"Come on, Dog," I said, slowly backing away, "I like the other set of stairs better anyway."

Later, I would post a warm-hearted, cleverly composed (in sparkly pen no less!) note to the mailroom door, in the hopes that whoever owned the snake would keep better tabs on it in the future and I would not have to worry about needing an underwear change upon returning from walks with my own beast.

Don't worry.. even though this post is reflective, I'll probably bring up poop in my next post

I am an incredibly lucky person.

I choose to believe that this is all because of karma. I am an incredibly lucky person because I am an incredibly good person. Or at least I try to be.

I have experienced heart break, heart ache and hard times, but everyone has at least a run in or two with these things at some point in time in their lives. When something does not go my way or when I feel particularly hard done by, I try not to say, "Why me?" Instead, I say, "Why not me?"

Just because I try to be a good person and try to do good things does not mean that I should never have to face any hardships. Life would be boring without twists and turns and bumps. I would never truly be able to appreciate the luxury of happiness if I did not have a run in with discontent every once in a while.