I told you to be patient, I told you to be fine

Hoo boy.

I'll be getting on my soap box for just a minute, but then, I promise, I'll get down.

The last five years has been pretty complicated, filled with obstacles, and even at times downright crappy. There have been accidents, illness, financial woes, job loss, and the general feeling of our lives on "treadmill" mode - working really hard but never really going anywhere, no forward motion. But we've had ups with the downs.

We accept the hits we take knowing that good stuff will come with it too. Sure enough, we've recovered from a lot, and reaped rewards - We got married this year, after 10 of being together. But then I lost my job last month because a jealous coworker sabotaged me for the two months following my promotion, and Josh got in a car accident earlier this week. Life sucks right now. Like, really and truly. Not only am I worried about finding a new job with a termination on my record, but I suffer daily from the traumatizing experience of being royally screwed over by people you thought you could trust (at the very least to be a decent human being if not at least acting like an adult and not a petty 13 year old girl). We're geographically isolated from our families up North, and the political climate during an election season in the South pretty much means crazy people get even crazier. I swear, I can't go to the grocery store without coming back to my car to see my Darwin bumper sticker getting even further scratched up, or my HRC magnet getting stolen. I didn't realize nutjob tea partyers had the right to violate personal property. In public.

But I have good days amidst the hard ones. And I know there will be more good days. And I know that my positive attitude will take me a long way. I know that this too, shall pass. I will  be a better person, and I will still be happy and have good people in my life. I was reminded of a quote today, that sums up things right now:

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

It's not okay yet...so this gives me hope of something to look forward to.
::off soapbox::