It’ll Be a Five Star Monday Night with @Schmutzie as My Guest

Very excited about tonight’s show. Well, I’m always excited about my show (because my friends/guests rock) but tonight is sure to be another exceptional episode.

My guest is Schmutzie, goddess of the blogosphere, innovator, artist, and creator of sites like Five Star Friday and Grace In Small Things.

Schmutzie likes to appreciate the small pleasures in everyday life. I prefer to appreciate the small pains-in-the-ass in everyday life. Still, I think we’ll get along just fine tonight.

I had the pleasure of hanging with her and Mr. Schmutzie (aka Palinsomething) in July, and if I had the damn Star Trek transporter (when are those supposed to be invented, anyway?) I’d be zapping myself over to hers and Palinode’s place regularly. They make me laugh.

Every one of you is welcome to call in and talk with us. The phone number is 724-444-7444, Call ID 23738. You can call in just to say hi to Schmutzie, or ask her a question, or maybe even say something to me.

I highly recommend that you go to my SecondHand Radio info page, register at Talkshoe.com and download the Talkshoe client (though not required, I think it’s a superior chatroom experience).

Tell all your friends. And if you have trouble getting into the show for some reason, feel free to call in (using the phone number below) and you can listen on the phone that way. I can leave you on mute, if you prefer.

Showtime: 10PM EST, 9PM CST, 8PM Mountain, 7PM Pacific

Show Link:

http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/23738

Call-in Number: (724) 444-7444, Call ID 23738

2HRadio Info (including complete list of upcoming guests)

NO SHOW THURSDAY BECAUSE OF THANKSGIVING.

Thanksgiving is just a few days away. I really should take a page from Schmutzie’s life and try to be thankful for the stuff I have in my life. I think I’ll make a couple of lists, in fact. These are in no significant order or ranking.

Things I’m NOT Thankful For

1. Depression/Anxiety/Stress. Enough, already.
2. Diabetes. Thanks to #1, even the smallest details seem ginormous to tackle. Adding more meds, plus multiple daily blood sugar checks, plus at least two injections a day? Not helping.
3. Cancer. Enough of this shit, too. Took the life of a friend earlier this year. Infecting family members. Has plagued other friends. IS plaguing other friends.
4. Illness. My stepmother is in the hospital. My friend is struggling to overcome the stroke she had last week. I’m done with it, for real. It’s another thing contributing to #1.
5. Stalkers. Not just because of my whole recent thing, but other friends, as well. I’ll include trolls here because they’re of the same ilk. Both are ugly, vile cowards that can choke on my vomit. Oh, and I’ll eat a lot of corn soup before the vomiting.
6. No iPod connection in rental car stereos. I’ll be in a rental for the next 9 days while my car is in the shop. It’s odd because my car is a piece of shit that has bad rust on the roof and an only-slightly-better paint job elsewhere. Now I’ll have a brand new (mostly) front end, including a new paint job. And yes, there’s still The Swamp in the back floorboard.
7. Passive-Aggressiveosity. Yeah, still. I said it yesterday on Twitter, but I’ll say it again. I want to punch passive-aggressive people in the junk. These are typically the same people who have absolutely no fucking boundaries (and refuse to honor any of mine).
8. The Edge Network. Sucks. Why can’t there be wifi EVERYWHERE? For free?
9. Being broke. Yeah, I know a lot of that is my fault, since I haven’t worked in a long time. Need to get on that. It’s crimping my luxurious lifestyle. *cough* I mean, if I ever want to get that team of maids and butlers, I have to get off my ass and play the lottery. A lot.
10. Self sabotage. The negative self-talk, the ignoring of my gut/intuition, the not taking my meds…yeah, even the nail-biting. What the bloody fuck is wrong with me? See, that right there is a little self sabotage. (Can you tell I just got back from the Matrix Therapist?)

Things I AM Thankful For

1. My friends. Not a day goes by that I’m not thankful for these people in my life. Everyone I interact with on Twitter. On blogs. In person. On the phone. Email. Chat. Particularly, my “inner circle” of people, who all have the ability to make me cry or laugh out loud. You fuckers rock.
2. The Internet. I seriously think I’d die without it. It’s like…oxygen. Or porn. Without the Net, I’d be fucked as far as socializing goes. I’m enough of a hermit as it is.
3. iPhone. As jacked into the Matrix as I am, I’d be suffering from Internet withdrawals any time I left the house – if not for my beloved iPhone.
4. Family. Mostly.
5. Music. I’d probably lose what little sanity I have left if not for music. It’s such an important part of my life, so visceral, so much an emotional and spiritual necessity…I’d be hosed without it.
6. Books. Ditto #5. Books are another part of my life’s blood. I’ve relied on them my entire life to escape the utter shit of my life, to learn anything and everything I need to know, to bring my imagination to a frothy head.
7. Television/Movies. Ditto #5. I grew up a TV kid. I remain one to this day. I’m an artist, a creative, a storyteller. So yeah, I dig great storytelling…great writing, great acting. Comedy? Drama? Stupid? Deep and heavy? No matter. If it’s truly engaging, I dig it. My favorite TV show at the moment is the brilliant HBO series, “In Treatment,” but I’m also enjoying “Curb Your Enthusiasm” a great deal. But my fall-back is always going to be sci-fi and fantasy. Supernatural? Lost? Heroes? Mmm.
8. My writing. I don’t post like I’d like to here, true. Or professionally, for that matter. Those aside, I am thankful for my writing. Not only do I love writing (most of the time), but it is one of the very few things I’ll admit to being good at. It’s a critical vent in my emotional system, it’s great fun to tell an amusing anecdote – and to make people laugh. And it affords me the ability to make a living without even leaving my house. (Which I need to begin doing again, stat.) On top of all that, it’s because of my writing that I have most of the the friends I have.
9. My daughters. I can honestly say that they’ve grown into women that I’d be proud to know even if I weren’t related to them.
10. Guinness. Ah, sweet darkness, sweet medication of the self!