Seriously...

...nearly 5 months since the last blog? Pathetic. One would think some major incident occurred of some sort which would have caused the lengthy sabbatical.

I have an announcement: The world is coming to an end.

Pack your bags. Head for the hills, (or Missouri if your theological beliefs suggest).

Hell has most certainly frozen over. Be looking for that big tidal wave to come from that doomsday movie from a few years ago. It's REALLY going to happen!!!

Why? I'll tell you why...

...Oprah is fat...

...again!

Not to mention:

Gas is at $1.25 a gallon, (and quickly going back up even though the price of oil continues to fall...hmm)

A black man is president. Which I hope the best, but expect the worst. (Two words: Pan - etta?)

The Yankees did NOT make the playoffs.

The stock market is crashing... ...or is it?

Gays still can't marry in California.

and an undefeated college football team, who crushed a historically perennial powerhouse, will not be the national champion.

What is this world coming to? Seriously! It is just me or does it seem that everywhere you look these days things that should be in a certain place seem to have been turned upside down, on it's head, or so half bass-akward that it's hard to even tell which end was supposed to be up in the first place?

I'm not a doomsday theorist, nor am I really that pessimistic. Cautiously concerned? Absolutely! But I just can't seem to understand why people are panicking in virtually every facet of life. Many panic and don't even realize it. Example, the shopping carts barreling at you three abreast down the aisle at Costco. Not one willing to give an inch to on-coming traffic. And it's not even the Christmas shopping season. NOTE: We drive on the RIGHT-SIDE of the road in America people, even in supermarkets!

I still have yet to understand the 'mosey' method down the middle of the aisle when all the person is really is doing is staring blankly into space not quite knowing what exactly they are looking for. (It's a metaphor which could be used to illustrate many other facets of their lives.)

Seriously though. Life ain't that bad. Sure your team may have lost the election and your home value has dropped 20% in the last six months. Maybe you've lost your retirement savings in a ponzi scheme and now you'd like to take Madoff's headoff!

But the fact of the matter remains, we're all in this together. No sense freaking out. It isn't going to help anything. Fear is such a powerful entity. It controls the lives of so many people. What happens in life, happens. Love it or hate it, it comes. Do we really lack the self-confidence as individuals and a nation to not remember the basic laws of physics? What goes up, must come down; and what goes down must come up.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Unfortunately it seems that the actions have become so outrageous that people tend to react with equal outrageousness. (I don't think that really is a word, but you get the point.)

I think it's high time to stop for a moment, breathe, smell the roses or what's left of them, and find time to enjoy the simple things in life.

After all, do you really want to end up like this guy?