{"id":128,"date":"2006-09-11T20:13:01","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T01:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funchilde.com\/blog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2006-09-11T20:13:01","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T01:13:01","slug":"my-philosophy-or-why-i-dont-btch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"My Philosophy (or Why I Don&#8217;t B*tch)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><style>\n.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }<br \/>\n.flickr-yourcomment { }<br \/>\n.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }<br \/>\n.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }<br \/>\n<\/style>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42088597@N00\/241053280\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-photo\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/92\/241053280_527cf84360.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This photo is a result of an internet app that lets you customize the things that are currently on your &#8220;poop list&#8221; as my Mom would say, as presented by everybody&#8217;s favorite political\u00c2\u00a0genius <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/shows\/the_colbert_report\/index.jhtml\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Colbert<\/a>. So those things are the things that make me want to rant as of right now.<\/div>\n<p>Karen over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chookooloonks.com\/chookooloonks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chookooloonks<\/a> blogs about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chookooloonks.com\/chookooloonks\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Why I Don&#8217;t B*tch&#8221;<\/a> and I have been thinking about this topic alot lately. The last several months as I moved into the reality of my dream, I received e-mail from people all over the world asking me how I did\/do it, what&#8217;s my secret for living a seemingly perfect life, how do I stay so positive?, etc. I was at once flattered and alarmed. In general what you see on my blog is really how I am (all the commenters who know me in real life (irl) please feel free to confirm or contradict that), and I&#8217;ve said for years that I&#8217;m one of the happiest people that I know. And its true. Not because I have the magic bullet to a perfect life, but because a) I believe that a certain amount of your outlook is predetermined by genetics and my parents might not have passed on the &#8220;skinny&#8221; gene, but they sure did make up for it with the &#8220;optimist&#8221; gene. b) I believe even more of your outlook is pure decision. I am determined to be happy and live my life as fully as I can. c) I&#8217;ve been THROUGH some things (mother&#8217;s critical illness, divorce) and I realized that I will always be going through something(s) but as long as I&#8217;m alive and in control of my mind and body, history bodes well that I&#8217;m not the first person to experience X and that even if Y happens I&#8217;ll be okay.<\/p>\n<p>Another reason I decided to join the 12 million + bloggers out here in the blogosphere is not because I felt like I had something to say that hasn&#8217;t been said before, but I hope that the WAY I say it brings a smile to your face, inspires you to pursue YOUR big dreams and gets me a couple of points with the Big Guy upstairs, so that when I slide into my grave: sideways, giggling and thoroughly exhausted from living a full life,\u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;ll have a shot at some wings, a halo and the chance to be a guardian angel for some poor sap who is breathing their first breath with a lifetime of joy and pain\u00c2\u00a0ahead of them.<\/p>\n<p>I think this topic is especially appropriate in light of the 5th anniversary of 9\/11. Anyone who knows me will tell you that since that day, my philosophy &#8211; which alternately drives people crazy and makes them smile at the same time is:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If this is the worst thing that happens to me today\/this month\/this year (depending on the scale), then that&#8217;s alright with me!&#8221; Even in the hardest situations I find myself saying this with a smile on my face or at the least in my voice &#8211; and it changes EVERYTHING. But mostly it changes ME. So here is to you dear reader, for all that you are and all that you will be, I wish for you the sun, moon and stars on a platter, and the knowledge that if you&#8217;re going through Hell, the best thing to do is to just.keep.going.\u00c2\u00a0 Trouble don&#8217;t last always.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 This photo is a result of an internet app that lets you customize the things that are currently on your &#8220;poop list&#8221; as my Mom would say, as presented by everybody&#8217;s favorite political\u00c2\u00a0genius Stephen Colbert. So those things are the things that make me want to rant as of right now. Karen over at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/?p=128\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Philosophy (or Why I Don&#8217;t B*tch)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funchilde-isms","category-lifelovelaughs","category-lists","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}