My Stand Against The Blues
Well, if it isn’t Wednesday morning!
Here I sit in my cubicle, staring at power generation statistics while Nelly Furtado’s “ManEater” revolves around my head. I look at the wind stats, which always make me think of going to Waterton and passing those beautiful wind farms by Lethbridge. I don’t know why, but I think wind farms are “just elegant”, in the words of Marilyn Monroe in “The Seven Year Itch”. At any rate, I really feel like going to Waterton now! Heehee. Ooooh, maybe I could go to Great Falls, Montana and stock up on Excedrin and Galoshes! Oh my GOSH, that’d be so much fun!!! K, I totally want to go now. I’m not sure how Homeland Security feels about day trips like that. Maybe if the car was really clean and I had my passport? Does anyone know?
I’ve been fighting a big old case of the blues for about a month now, and I’m getting awfully tired of being a misery, so I’ve decided this week to take a stand against the blues. I’ve ordered self-help books, made changes to a few things that are getting me down, and am going to do meal planning and budgeting and make LISTS! Life lists, people. I know an awful lot of women who are having the blues right now too, so maybe we should all take a stand against the blues?
Ready for a rant? Here goes:
One of the things that drives me nuts about Eurocentrism (I’m apprehensive about saying “American Exceptionalism”, because I think that this is one of those “direct results of the industrial revolution” things) is our lack of community. I think about Native North American cultures, the sense of community for women, the concept of the village raising the child, of women convening to celebrate the things they have in common. I feel like that’s missing in our culture. I have women that I’m close to, like my mum and a few girlfriends, so I’m not saying that I’m completely without a support network. But at times I do feel alienated and alone, like I missed a huge memo about growing up, or like I did something that set me ten years behind everyone else. There’s love between us, but there’s not always understanding. I love that blogging has created new communities of women, like BlogHer and MommyBloggers, and I think that women are so grateful to start re-building these connections. Competition runs so high with women these days, and we’re always trying to BE more, DO more, and create more meaning in ourselves. It’s hard. It alienates us. I work with a lot of strong women whom I respect, but I’ve only been able to forge a friendship with one of them. Sometimes I just want to sit down with someone and say “I’m not here to challenge you” and see what happens.
Well, I’m not even sure if I know what I’m getting at, but I’m wondering if there’s a common thread between all of us blue women? How can we take a stand about this? Are we all just being too hard on ourselves? Do we just need some positive reinforcement and to be a little nicer to ourselves?
If you have any thoughts, let me know. If I come up with anything brilliant, I’ll sure share.
~g~
P.S. This isn’t meant to trivialize any of you guys out there who are feeling blue! I just haven’t witnesses a rash of unhappy men lately ;)
Here I sit in my cubicle, staring at power generation statistics while Nelly Furtado’s “ManEater” revolves around my head. I look at the wind stats, which always make me think of going to Waterton and passing those beautiful wind farms by Lethbridge. I don’t know why, but I think wind farms are “just elegant”, in the words of Marilyn Monroe in “The Seven Year Itch”. At any rate, I really feel like going to Waterton now! Heehee. Ooooh, maybe I could go to Great Falls, Montana and stock up on Excedrin and Galoshes! Oh my GOSH, that’d be so much fun!!! K, I totally want to go now. I’m not sure how Homeland Security feels about day trips like that. Maybe if the car was really clean and I had my passport? Does anyone know?
I’ve been fighting a big old case of the blues for about a month now, and I’m getting awfully tired of being a misery, so I’ve decided this week to take a stand against the blues. I’ve ordered self-help books, made changes to a few things that are getting me down, and am going to do meal planning and budgeting and make LISTS! Life lists, people. I know an awful lot of women who are having the blues right now too, so maybe we should all take a stand against the blues?
Ready for a rant? Here goes:
One of the things that drives me nuts about Eurocentrism (I’m apprehensive about saying “American Exceptionalism”, because I think that this is one of those “direct results of the industrial revolution” things) is our lack of community. I think about Native North American cultures, the sense of community for women, the concept of the village raising the child, of women convening to celebrate the things they have in common. I feel like that’s missing in our culture. I have women that I’m close to, like my mum and a few girlfriends, so I’m not saying that I’m completely without a support network. But at times I do feel alienated and alone, like I missed a huge memo about growing up, or like I did something that set me ten years behind everyone else. There’s love between us, but there’s not always understanding. I love that blogging has created new communities of women, like BlogHer and MommyBloggers, and I think that women are so grateful to start re-building these connections. Competition runs so high with women these days, and we’re always trying to BE more, DO more, and create more meaning in ourselves. It’s hard. It alienates us. I work with a lot of strong women whom I respect, but I’ve only been able to forge a friendship with one of them. Sometimes I just want to sit down with someone and say “I’m not here to challenge you” and see what happens.
Well, I’m not even sure if I know what I’m getting at, but I’m wondering if there’s a common thread between all of us blue women? How can we take a stand about this? Are we all just being too hard on ourselves? Do we just need some positive reinforcement and to be a little nicer to ourselves?
If you have any thoughts, let me know. If I come up with anything brilliant, I’ll sure share.
~g~
P.S. This isn’t meant to trivialize any of you guys out there who are feeling blue! I just haven’t witnesses a rash of unhappy men lately ;)
posted by Apartment Girl at 12:07 PM
1 Comments:
Have a site and book that you may want to check out (if you have not done so already).
http://quirkyalone.net/qa/
The book sounds like it could be helpful.
Plus the authour is now working on a project about lists, which is what reminded me to post this (your talk about life lists).
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