Remedies
Recommended cures for unexplained sadness:
1.) Garlic chicken pizza from a new pizza place in town where they make your pizza when you order it and then send it home with you for baking. It's really fresh and fabulous.
2.) Habitat for Humanity -- I did NOT want to get up at the crack of dawn and do this again, but it was awesome for the 3rd year in a row. I always show up feeling inept and incompetent, but this year I used a nail gun to install hip trusses along the corners of the house to support the roof, used a giant spinning electric saw to cut 2x4s and then showed other people how to do it, and stood on ladders and nailed brackets into support the ceiling beams! It was very empowering and totally sadness curing! The great thing about Habitat for Humanity, as I've said before, is that they show you something once and trust you to show the next person and everyone learns from each other. I screwed up when nailing a bracket and a very old, very tough lady named climbed up on my ladder and wrenched the nails out using her hammer and God knows what kind of super human strength. It was awesome to behold.
3.) Our team winning the game on Saturday afternoon, not because I care so much but because my loved ones do and it makes them all extremely happy. Hearing my little brother announce all of his Very Strong Opinions about the game at dinner last night was highly, highly amusing. Also, he told a story about a very Buddy Garrity-like man near him at the game being totally drunk -- he was wearing a ring that indicated he's probably kind of a big shot from our school -- and turning around and screaming very ridiculously to the masses of the other team's fans behind them in the stadium -- "GO TO HELL, YOU INBRED MOTHERFUCKERS!" and my brother and his friends were all like, oh dear, we are all going to get killed. (Turns out their fans are nicer than our fans, though.) And then the man got so drunk that someone put a Bear Bryant hat on his head and he did not even notice. Things like this make me laugh and laugh when my brother tells them.
4.) The parish fair yesterday + my mom's homemade trout almandine for dinner last night, which was pretty delicious. (We loved the fair growing up. LOVED IT. My parents ran a very popular booth and good times were had by all. Then the fair added rides and carnies and lost some of its magic because the moms these days all seem to dress like Jessica Simpson. I swear someone was in line for the ferris wheel wearing purple suede wedge pumps. It's just wrong. But still, a good time was had.)
5.) A boyfriend who is nice to me no matter how inexplicably grumpy and sad I am.
6.) Stephen Colbert's Americone Dream.
1.) Garlic chicken pizza from a new pizza place in town where they make your pizza when you order it and then send it home with you for baking. It's really fresh and fabulous.
2.) Habitat for Humanity -- I did NOT want to get up at the crack of dawn and do this again, but it was awesome for the 3rd year in a row. I always show up feeling inept and incompetent, but this year I used a nail gun to install hip trusses along the corners of the house to support the roof, used a giant spinning electric saw to cut 2x4s and then showed other people how to do it, and stood on ladders and nailed brackets into support the ceiling beams! It was very empowering and totally sadness curing! The great thing about Habitat for Humanity, as I've said before, is that they show you something once and trust you to show the next person and everyone learns from each other. I screwed up when nailing a bracket and a very old, very tough lady named climbed up on my ladder and wrenched the nails out using her hammer and God knows what kind of super human strength. It was awesome to behold.
3.) Our team winning the game on Saturday afternoon, not because I care so much but because my loved ones do and it makes them all extremely happy. Hearing my little brother announce all of his Very Strong Opinions about the game at dinner last night was highly, highly amusing. Also, he told a story about a very Buddy Garrity-like man near him at the game being totally drunk -- he was wearing a ring that indicated he's probably kind of a big shot from our school -- and turning around and screaming very ridiculously to the masses of the other team's fans behind them in the stadium -- "GO TO HELL, YOU INBRED MOTHERFUCKERS!" and my brother and his friends were all like, oh dear, we are all going to get killed. (Turns out their fans are nicer than our fans, though.) And then the man got so drunk that someone put a Bear Bryant hat on his head and he did not even notice. Things like this make me laugh and laugh when my brother tells them.
4.) The parish fair yesterday + my mom's homemade trout almandine for dinner last night, which was pretty delicious. (We loved the fair growing up. LOVED IT. My parents ran a very popular booth and good times were had by all. Then the fair added rides and carnies and lost some of its magic because the moms these days all seem to dress like Jessica Simpson. I swear someone was in line for the ferris wheel wearing purple suede wedge pumps. It's just wrong. But still, a good time was had.)
5.) A boyfriend who is nice to me no matter how inexplicably grumpy and sad I am.
6.) Stephen Colbert's Americone Dream.
posted by eliza @ 7:52 PM
6 Comments:
I, too, was VERY pleased with your team's triumph Saturday. Although your team would have to lose for my team to have a shot at the conference championship, I could not, in good conscience, root for those people :)
Given the number of fans here in Tuscaloosa to cheer on LSU (WOW there was so much purple!), things were surprisingly civil. There were massive rumblings of discontent bordering on hysteria when the LSU folks started "defacing" the Bear Bryant hats. Those of us who work in the crowds were a bit leery - but I found every fan I talked to totally pleasant and didn't see any nastiness from either side where I was - right in the thick of it all at our vending stand on The Strip (where all the bars & drunk fans with no tickets hang out!). It was an awesome game! Congrats!
Ok, seriously - I'm sure the Ben and Jerry's flavor is good and all, but you need to try the newest Haagen Dazs flavor - Caramelized Pear & Toasted Pecan. It's pear ice cream with bits of caramelized pears and toasted pecans. Your world will be rocked. Mine was.
Isn't Americone Dream the greatest? I tried the Haagen Dazs version not too long ago, and was summarily disappointed.
Oh man, I also loved my parish fair growing up AND my parents ran a very popular booth as well. The confetti egg booth. It was awesome. My dad was also the mascot. I'm sure I'd be disappointed by the changes there if I went back too.
I had a husband rooting for the red team, and an office full of people rooting for the purple team. And me? I was Canada - The Land Where College Football Does Not Exist.
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