Are you familiar with the phrase “are we having fun yet?” It originated with the cartoon Zippy, was featured in the TV show Party Down, and here’s an online explanation:
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I think “are we having fun yet?” applies to our current situation that “might need a little levity to get through.”
Are we having fun yet as we look at my images for today?
As a therapist, I try to help people get over it, where “it” is
loss,
old patterns of behaviors or thoughts that interfere with their moving forward,
past traumas, and/or
a belief in their own worthlessness.
However, I have never, ever said to anybody, “Get over it” because that never, ever helps.
So I wasn’t sure how to observe National Get Over It Day, especially in a world where people aren’t getting the opportunity to get over it, where “it” is
injustice,
war,
terrible people in power, and
COVID.
On National Get Over It Day, it also occurs to me that people in my nation (the USA) need to get over our unhealthy and self-centered nationalism.
Personally, I’ve been making progress on getting over it, where “it” is
a fear of machines breaking (because I’ve been dependent on cardiac pacemakers to stay alive since I was 10),
fears about doing or saying the wrong thing,
worries about putting myself out there on social media, and
an inaccurate sense of my own importance.
It’s time to get over myself and to move on to my images for National Get Over It Day.
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Do you see anything about getting over it in my other images for today?
I can’t get over the fact that in all the hundreds of Daily Bitch Calendar entries I’ve seen over the years, this is the first one where she isn’t bitchy.
Ever since we adopted Joan — our kitty who was found on the streets of Tennessee with her siblings and many kittens — my husband Michael has been “speaking” for Joan by saying, in a high Southern-accented voice, “I do what I want!”
Joan does what she wants by
chasing our other cat Harley around the house,
sitting where she wants to sit,
playing when she wants to play,
sleeping when and where she wants to sleep, and
generally, being cat.
Joan does what she wants within the confines of wearing a cone …
… as her skin infection heals. Actually, if she was really doing what she wants, she wouldn’t be wearing that damned cone, but she’s doing just fine.
“I do what I want” is also what many humans say as they get older and wiser. I discovered this, again, when I tweeted this yesterday:
Many people on Twitter agreed with me and shared how they do what they want, more and more, as they get older. Somebody actually responded with this:
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Here are some other responses:
I do what I want when I create this daily blog, so I want to share the photos I took yesterday at work and at home. You do what you want with these:
The Daily Bitch does what she wants. Do you?
I do what I want and I want to see what I find when I search YouTube for “I do what I want.”
I do what I want and I also want to include some music here. Here’s “Do What You Want” from OK Go.
I do what I want and I always want to end these posts with gratitude for all who visit this blog, including YOU!
