three mornings after (a flashback)

Author: sean M Published: November 8, 2024 0 comments

this one is interesting…

…it was clearly written while drunk and sad, which even though that relationship ending was ultimately for the best for both parties involved, and even though it briefly re-sparked only for common sense to squash it, i’ve had this phrase uttered to me way too much lately, and with the events of this week’s election (i’m just assuming – i’m actually writing this intro at 8am on election day) it’s probably been said WAY too much this week.

06/03/2007: “it is what it is”

today’s title brought to you by alex, who uttered it while taking more of her stuff out of the house, this time knowing it was never coming back…

…she was not, however, talking about our former relationship, or anything having to do with it, at the time.

but others have used the phrase in that sense, which kinda bugs and baffles me at the same time.

’cause most of the others have no other. which are always the ones giving the advice, right?

(at this point i’d like to interject that i am two glasses of hundred proof bourbon and a cigar into sunday evening, but in my defense it’s been an emotional day AND i just got done watching ron white, which requires dark liquor and a cigar, doesn’t it? or is that just me? as we were…)

it is what it is…

what philosophical genius came up with this bullshit? i’ve had at least three people say this in conjunction with my recent dismissal from my relationship. if it wasn’t what it is, what would it be? i mean, that is straight up political / corporate speak, isn’t it? it IS depressing. it IS my d.a.m. life (d.a.m. = drunk, alone, and miserable, for all taking notes). but it IS what it IS? fuck every last one of you who said that to me, or anybody else on the cusp of an emotional crisis, damn it…

(i just realized none of the three people who said it have this url – but at least that little bit of ventilation made me feel better, so it works…)

back to the drinking…self-medication, courtesy of the great state of kentucky.

2024 note – in a weird twist, yesterday was alex’s tenth wedding anniversary. now, what makes this “weird” is that when nik & i announced our “save the date” in may 2014 alex announced hers a week or two later but set the wedding date one week, to the day, before mine, which i thought was an odd coincidence. they’d been together four years longer than us, i’ll grant you, but announcing your date a week before us so soon after our announcement was just odd to me at the time.

three mornings after (a flashback)

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