Change [NOT 23/12/23]

23/12/23 ManchuCandidate 19

What has changed for you in 2023?

For me, I had that thing with both parents suffering from dementia which was made worse when mom did a deep dive into crazy town. Exhibiting the classic behaviors of running away, rummaging and hoarding all within a several month span. Fortunately I had some good luck in terms of getting mom and dad into a long care facility with a dementia ward.

Other thing I realized. Despite the fact I do a job that is below my skills and education, I can’t complain as I wouldn’t have lasted if I worked in a job at my own level particularly at my employer. I would have been surrounded by people I can’t stand and been unhappy fighting pointless office politics wars with my own idiot bosses. Odds would be pretty good I would have been fired. Better for me till I land an opportunity that suits me as money, titles and perks aren’t everything.

How about you?

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  2. 2023 was pretty stable, but I’m well aware that 2024 may turn into a disaster and I’ll be scrambling this time of year to scrub my internet history and look for a new country. Let’s hope not.

  3. I have a very different sense of financial stability than I had last year or the year before. It’s not that my income has changed etc, but rather that I’ve had enough years now of not jumping from fire to fire to fire with money that my headspace has shifted in a good way.

  4. So here’s a Christmas miracle. I pulled ancient forgotten sourdough starter out of the back of the fridge for bread for Christmas, and it seems to have revived.

    I’ll crank it up tomorrow and may actually get something.

    Possibly an ugly infection, but since I’m baking it at 400 degrees, probably just bread.

  5. 2023 was not my year, to put it mildly, but there’s always hope for better days ahead. “The sunny uplands” that Boris Johnson, plagiarizing Winston Churchill, who I think was plagiarizing someone else, promised the British during the Brexit campaign.

    In that call to my sister she told me that her daughter was up for a promotion three levels above where she is now and that she and her boyfriend were finally going to be moving into their own apartment. So I guess my asshole nurse is out of the picture. Probably for the best. AND THEN I learned that my unlucky-in-love nephew found a girlfriend, online of course. I demanded a photo. She’s very pretty and very smart and accomplished, I won’t tell you the deets, but she’s Asian. “That will add a little diversity to this family!” “Um, Mattie, your Better Half…?”

    So, after a long dry spell, I may have some weddings in my near future. No “Macarena” or “Electric Slide” from me but I can cheer the others on. If people even still do that anymore.

    • I could teach you the Electric Slide or the Bus Stop if you’d like.  Also, you could learn to do some Chicago-style stepping and blow everyone at the wedding away.  I could teach you to step.  I’m not as good as the two brothers below, but I hold my own pretty good even at black weddings.  Seeing a white guy stepping must be like watching a dog do math.  It may not be very good, but it’s amazing that they can do it at all.

       

      • Oh, I know how to do the Macarena and The Electric Slide. Isn’t what those two men are doing The Shag?

        My freshman year college roommate taught that to me. We were so bored and so broke. Comes in handy, though, if you can find a woman (or another man) who knows how to do it with you.

        • The Shag and Chicago Stepping have similarities, but there are important differences.  In Stepping, there is a subtle lagging behind the beat and an element of command and control. Someone is definitely leading.  Also, the number of “step backs” in Stepping can be some odd numbers given the rhythm is almost always in a 4/4.

          The Shag is good though, don’t get me wrong. Every stepper can Shag, not every shagger can step.

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