Hi, Cathletes! I am feeling fat, depressed, down, and in despair today. So I am going to something my friend Kim does when she's feeling less-than-stellar - she makes a list of all the things that make her happy as a way of combating her sad feelings.

Here's my list:

I have a wonderful husband
I have a super fun, supportive, close family
I have three cuddly, cute, albeit crazy, cats
I have great friends who don't judge me, don't enable my disorder...

Actually, it's Friday afternoon. And actually, I have direct deposit, so it never really feels like I just got paid.

Whatever happened to Johnny Kemp? Was he a one-hit wonder? I once referred to the band Kansas a one-hit wonder. ("Dust In The Wind" was the only song of theirs I thought I knew.) My husband ran and got his Kansas Greatest Hits CD and proceeded to read me the track list. If memory serves, I knew every one of the songs featured on that album. I guess...

Has anybody seen the movie "Man On Wire"? It's a documentary recounting Philippe Petit's 1974 walk across a wire strung between the Twin Towers. After the events of 9/11, The New Yorker did two fabulous covers combining Petit's walk with the loss of the Towers.
[Image]
[Image]

Okay, every Wednesday I get "Humpty Dance" stuck in my head. And my favorite line from that song is "Samoans, do the Humpty Hump." I laugh every time I hear it or think of it.

(Every Tuesday I get "Tuesday Afternoon" by the Moody Blues stuck in my head. Fridays it's "Friday I'm In Love" by The Cure. Saturdays it's Elton's "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting." Sunday it's "Sunday Bloody Sunday." Mondays it's "Manic...

Good things (because I don't want this thing to just be a bunch of negativity!)
-My husband found an old magazine yesterday (he was cleaning!!!), and asked me if I wanted to browse through it before he tossed it. I did, and found two ‘new’ pictures of Montgomery Clift taken by Richard Avedon in 1958. I love little surprises like that!
-Season four of “The Office” came out last week and I bought it (not that I should be buying myself stuff, but now's not the time to complain about...