Thank you for bickering, grandstanding, politicking, and defaulting on your promise to govern our nation responsibly, all so that thousands of federal workers and contractors could have a few extra days off this year. It really was extremely considerate of you, forcing us all to stay home for a week...or three or four. After all, we keep the nation's vital services running, keep you safe, even help the economy by staffing and maintaining our national parks, monuments, and museums where tourists spend lots of money. You obviously wanted to pay us back for that--especially those government workers whose salaries have been frozen for the past three years (I notice your salary goes up every year) and who had to take a significant pay hit this past summer when you couldn't stop arguing long enough to prevent sequestration. I think I speak for everyone who's now home instead of at work when I say, you really shouldn't have.
I'm sure you'll be glad to know that I have been using this forced stay-cation to catch up on a number of projects around the house and get in some extra bike rides. At least the shut-down happened when the weather is fine, rather than in, say, January. That was considerate of you. Here are a few things I've been doing to stay productive while waiting for you to get your act together.
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1. Sorting and throwing out old photos. I had stack upon stack of photos of people whose names I no longer remember and hazy vacation shots I haven't looked at in 20 years, not to mention all the duplicate prints. I don't think I'll miss them.
2. Reorganizing all my books and book shelves. I was able to clear two whole shelves and found space for all the childhood and college journals I recently brought back from my mom's house. Room for new books! Yay!
3. Catching up on superhero movies. Today I watched Thor and earlier in the week I watched Captain America. What's next? Maybe the Green Lantern?
4. Turning old shirts into cleaning rags. I now have enough rags to dust everyone's house (but don't ask me to).
5. Dusting, laundry, errands, and generally checking every small thing off my To Do list.
6. Meeting with furloughed friends for frozen yogurt. (We can't afford to actually meet for lunch or dinner since who knows when we'll next get paid!)
7. Bike rides and more glorious bike rides! It's so nice to ride during the day, when I have the trail practically to myself.
With no way of knowing how long this shutdown will last, I have no idea whether I should spread out all of my projects or accomplish them as quickly as I can. It would be much easier to plan if only we could count on you, Congress, to move with any degree of alacrity to end this shutdown. However, since you've demonstrated repeatedly they you are entirely incapable of that, we all must content ourselves with superhero movies and long To Do lists. Oh, and bike rides.
Yours Sincerely (and with lots of free time on my hands),
M
2 comments:
now THAT'S the attitude-if politicians had the same attitude the world would be a much better place-did you think of going out on a bike ride?
You can come visit me in Ohio!
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