I am fed up to the teeth with so much acrimony going on these days. Summer seems to bring out the worst in people anymore. Tempers flare and nobody seems to be able to listen to anybody. Maybe it's because it's just so damned hot anymore in the summer that it causes people to be less patient with each other or something. I don't know. I feel caught up in forces beyond my control and I am feeling squeezed from every direction and I am bone weary of it all. It feels as if my life is no longer in my control and that forces around me are deciding everything from my free time to my finances. I am feeling stressed, tired, angry, frustrated and ready to just escape from here and go someplace else for a while where I can relax and feel like nobody is pressuring me about anything. I'm struggling to balance my life between so many things anymore that I am feeling unbalanced and exhausted and temperamental about so many things. Some days I just want to stay home, lock the door, disconnect the phone and be left alone to do as I please. Either that or get in the car and drive as far as a tank of gas will get me and stay there. I need some serious time away from here to clear my head and de-stress for a while.
Speaking of the phone, it rings non-stop all day long. I'm about ready to throw the thing out the window and permanently disconnect my phone number. The phone is almost always ringing as I walk in the door from work and doesn't stop some nights until well after 9:00 p.m. Anymore, I am refusing to answer and I just sit there and yell at it to go away and leave me alone. I am seriously giving thought to disconnecting it and using only my cell phone from now on. Most people are doing that these days anyway and I don't really need a land line anymore as it is. It would bring me relief and return my house to the peace and quiet I crave. It would also allow me to remove my phone number from the phone book and public records. I don't give out my cell phone number and only a handful of people know it, so it would return me to the privacy I want as well. As I hardly ever turn on my cell phone, I wouldn't have to listen to that thing jangling all day and night as well. That's just one thing driving me nuts these days, among many other things. So a heads up to people: don't even
think of calling me. Seriously. I won't answer it. I'm sick and tired of the telephone ringing all day and all night and it's high time that I reclaim some privacy and peace and quiet. Telephone be gone with you! Your day is done, I am quit of you.
Well, I can't end without wishing everyone a safe and happy 4th of July. I've actually never understood fully why we celebrate this day when in point of fact we were not fully free of Britain until after the War of 1812, which forever sealed our freedom, at least that is what I am hearing. But I am also hearing that it was the first among many series of attempted land grabs by the United States of lands owned by other countries. I heard from a Canadian that the US was attempting to annex its neighbor to the north and we fought a war over it which we lost since Canadians owe their allegiance to the British crown. Like anything else in American history, there are viewpoints and then there are viewpoints. Histories are always written by the victors and I suppose that the US likes to think that it won this war with the British because they failed to retake the United States as a British colony, thereby forever sealing our fate as an independent nation. But if you ask the Canadians, they will tell you that the War of 1812 was an attempted land grab by the United States that was put down by the British, so who knows what the real truth is. I suspect that the Canadians are probably more correct in their assessment of that war than we are since we always seem to like to paint things in terms of wars we've won and so forth. So for what it is worth, a Happy and safe 4th of July, even if it really isn't the date of our true independence. I will take a paid day off in mid-summer any day of the week!
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