Get it together Congress

Politics make me crazy. I can't understand how 536 (congress plus the president) people can sit back in Washington and fight over tiny things, while real people are being impacted by the decisions or rather lack of decisions, they are making. 

Sure its fine if you shut down the government for 3 weeks because you're still getting paid. 

I have literally lost count how many times we have had "last minute" budget debates and deadlines and deals to make before the whole country is sent into a spiraling recession. 

Why can't they pass a budget that will last for a whole year? Why do they wait until the last minute to start negotiations? 

I get it, the nation is divided, if the nearly 50/50 split in the popular vote for president last year was any indication, but it is Congress's job to make decisions and choices that benefit the American people. 

Right now, no one in Congress or the president, is looking out for the actual people. They are fighting like children and embarrassing themselves in the process. How does this look to the rest of the world? Here is the U.S.A. getting involved in Syria and Afghanistan and Iraq, when we can't even solve our own problems at home. It is ridiculous. 

I don't know a lot about the budget specifics and what they are really arguing over (except Obamacare) but the fact of the matter is that what they are doing is hurting the general public. Going into to default won't benefit anyone, in fact it could hurt a lot of people, including many people I know who rely on their social security checks to live every month. Refusing to sign any bill that doesn't defund Obamacare isn't going to get the Tea Party Republicans anywhere! It has already been funded, let it go through and see what happens. It could fail catastrophically and end up killing itself off or it could be wildly successful but at this point, years after its passing, there is no point in continuing to fight something that is already going into effect! 

I think there should be a clause that if Congress allows the government to go into a shutdown or default or anything else that harms the majority of the population they should have to work unpaid until they figure it out. We wouldn't still be in a shutdown 3 weeks later if Congress wasn't getting paid, they would have never let it happen in the first place. 

I think its really too bad its not a major election year this year, because I imagine this whole situation would be playing out very differently if their jobs were at stake. If I refused to negotiate with my coworkers and my boss and was costing my company money every single day I would be fired in a heartbeat. 

Congress is failing at their jobs and in the meantime they are letting you and me down, I just hope the American people remember this next year when some of the people responsible are up for reelection. In the meantime here is my message for Congress: Put the bickering and finger-pointing and politics aside and for once make a decision that will benefit the people you were elected to represent! 

A case of the Mondays

For a while I thought today was going to be a good Monday, you know as far as Mondays go.
My CT scan this morning was quick, painless (except for the IV stick) and much shorter than expected, my coffee from Starbucks was tasty and I made it to work on time despite going to the doctor first.
Then I found out I still have an infection after more than 3 weeks of IV antibiotics, BUT the good news is it is susceptible to oral antibiotics this time and my fancy new (also expensive but supposedly amazing) cranberry pills arrived today so I feel confident this will get rid of it, finally.
I was able to move a few other doctors appointments to earlier dates and the internet provided all sorts of great entertainment for me today (see my facebook page for a few examples).
Then I had to wait at the pharmacy for more 20 minutes to pick up my prescription, which come to find out is only partially filled because insurance is stupid and won't give me all 14 pills at once. Then I come home to find Willy has shit all over the apartment. Not nice little turds either, gross little piles of poop, not in 1 or 2 places but 5, then of course he won't poop when I take him outside because he already did all over the place. I know I shouldn't get mad because he only poops on the floor when he is sick, I can literally count on one hand the number of times he's pooped while we've been at work. But to top it all off when I went to go get the paper towels out of the trunk of my car to clean up the poop I find I have locked my keys in my car, so no paper towels, instead I have to keep washing out the same rag, gross.
And my only pair of black dress pants now has a hole in the thigh from where my thighs rub together when I walk, thank you fat thighs.
Is it Friday yet?

Is it October? or December?

I woke up this morning needing to wear a coat outside to walk Willy, not a jacket, but a full on coat. My mom sent me a picture of her car showing the temperature as 29 degrees. It is October 4th! What happened to fall? I love fall so much! That chill (but not too chilly) in the air, the pumpkin treats everywhere, the pretty leaves but snow and freezing cold temperatures are too much.
I need fall!! I'm not ready for winter yet. After a super hot summer (which you will never hear me complain about by the way) I need a few weeks of nice 60 to 70 degree temperatures before it starts being wintery and cold. I need a few weeks where just a sweater or light jacket would be enough to keep me warm. I am so not ready for snow.
So Mother Nature what do you say you bring back those awesome fall temperatures and save winter for another day?