Don't you hate it when you are around someone who has so obviously chosen to just have a bad time? It really brings everyone down. And it's so much work to bring the mood back up. Even when I tried, it just took all of my effort and energy.

Gah.

and now it's fall, the elections are over and we are hurtling toward the holiday season.

I just hang on, hoping that the rest of the world will soon wake up to the fact that we don't NEED more STUFF. (maybe just Season 2 of Northern Exposure)

I will be gloriously away from my family and out of the country for Christmas. Can't recall the last Christmas vacation I had.

yay, fall. It's dark and gray and wet. All the time.

I am bound and determined to snap out of this, though. yep. I am.