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Five Things I Am Grateful For Today
Maybe Monday isn’t so bad after all.
Hey! I’m Spyder Darling and you might know me from The Tao of Spyder and The Tao of Spyder: Part Deux, or maybe from my movie reviews of M3GAN or Babylon, or perhaps from one of my recent helpful hints pieces like How To Not Be A Crap Cook or Top 10 Secrets To Medium Success.
Or, maybe you don’t no me at all. In which case, Hi, I’m Spyder. Nice to meet ya. And maybe just like you I had to get up and face today and wonder how I’m going to get through what I have to do until tonight when it’s time to have some food, plop down in front of the TV, have a few drinks and hopefully by midnight be sleepy enough to go hit the silk, dream of Jeannie and start the whole shit show again, when the 6:30 alarm bell rings
Indeed, how does one get through the day and not step in front of a fast moving vehicle along the way, just to avoid having to go through the same routine tomorrow? The answer is a three syllable, as opposed to a four letter word: gratitude. That said, here’s some good stuff that happened this morning that kinda takes the chill out of pushing the rock back up the hill. For today anyway.
- Waking up not hung over, after watching two NFL playoff games yesterday and losing wagers on both of them. One was over almost as soon as it began due to quarterback injury. The other…
