Interlude: Attitude Adjustment
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Jennifer Crusie is the New York Times, USA Today, and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling author of twenty-one novels, one book of literary criticism, miscellaneous articles, essays, novellas, and short stories, and the editor of three essay anthologies. She lives on the Ohio River where she often stares at the ceiling and counts her blessings.
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29 Comments to 'Interlude: Attitude Adjustment'
On June 13, 2010 at 9:30 am Deborah Blake said...
This was wonderful! Just the thing for a gloomy Sunday morning. I always thought that The Life of Brian was highly underrated. I especially love the grafitti correction scene
Hope Lavender is flowing more smoothly for you.
On June 13, 2010 at 9:41 am doris in munich said...
Thank you, thank you!! My little ones were hopping with joy and dancing to the music (a change from re-enacting every football-match in the Soccer-Championship so far…),
all the best from munich,
doris * Bavarian Cherry
On June 13, 2010 at 9:53 am Gina Black said...
Thanks. That always helps.
On June 13, 2010 at 10:48 am robena grant said...
Lovely. Left me smiling, it did.
On June 13, 2010 at 11:35 am Bonnie C said...
I love the smell of Python in the morning.
On June 13, 2010 at 11:36 am naked under my clothes said...
…AND bagpipes. It just doesn’t get any better.
That’s what Liz needs. Bagpipes.
On June 13, 2010 at 11:37 am Jennifer said...
I was just listening to this on my MP3 player yesterday. I had been watching the Beaker video the day before you put it up, too. Glad to know I’m not the only strange one here.
On June 13, 2010 at 11:49 am Sheryl said...
That song has been my mantra for the last couple of weeks. A friend of mine is in Afghanistan and posted it as his FB status. It’s been my favourite earworm ever since. It’s funny how things like that really can adjust your attitude. Thanks for sharing this version. Bagpipes :swoon:
On June 13, 2010 at 12:52 pm Meggrs said...
THANK you, Jenny. Absolutely fabulous.
On June 13, 2010 at 12:56 pm Kara said...
Thanks!
After a week of righteous indignation about the unfairness of the world sometimes, and sadness for other people, I am happier.
I needed some Python. I might even need more Python today.
On June 13, 2010 at 2:27 pm Dee said...
Yay! Eric is my favorite. And Life of Brian is my favorite Python. “Is this HIS gourd?” Love it.
On June 13, 2010 at 2:28 pm KellyJ said...
Great fun on a hot, humid, muggy Sunday.
On June 13, 2010 at 2:30 pm Clever Cherry aka Judy Long said...
That was a nice distraction! I needed that. I can always use a little Monty Python or any of it’s cast solo…
On June 13, 2010 at 2:30 pm Brussel Sprout said...
Oh, thank you. That was fabulous.
On June 13, 2010 at 2:33 pm NancyF said...
When I was downsized at work last year I was determined to go out with a positive attitude. I downloaded this as my cell phone ring tone. Impossible to feel sorry for yourself when you hear that song. Thanks jenny!
On June 13, 2010 at 3:18 pm Barbara said...
What a nice surprise. Thank you. I was contemplating doing some cleaning in the garage and this perked me up. It also reminded me of the times another woman and I would go for what we called an “attitude adjustment” lunch at a law office I worked at briefly. We didn’t even need alcohol — just saying attitude adjustment lunch and eating at a nearby sandwich shop did the trick.
On June 13, 2010 at 4:33 pm SueG said...
Monty Python is always appropriate, makes any day better!
On June 13, 2010 at 5:51 pm Cathy said...
That left a big cheesy grin on my face. Thanks.
On June 13, 2010 at 6:16 pm Carol Anne said...
I love Monty Python and bagpipes!
On June 13, 2010 at 6:37 pm Office Wench Cherry said...
Oh, I so needed an attitude adjustment. I’m the one with the bad attitude.
My husband has a chance at a job in his company that will have him home every night (he currently is away for 8 days and then home for 6) but we will have to move if he gets it. I used to work for that same company and I have my issues with the people in the office he will be working in however it will get him out from underneath the direct supervision of a man I don’t trust. I will have to give up my job but since my DH makes three or more times what I do I have no financial leg to stand on in the pro/con argument there. We have just spent a ton of money and time fixing up our house and I have huge flower gardens that I don’t want to leave, especially since I’ve looked on MLS and all the houses in this other little town are, well, crap. I live in northern Canada and my definition of little town is 3000 people. I don’t want to move and leave everyone I know to move to a town where the only people I know, well, I don’t like and I won’t have a job. I’ve become Queen of the Yeah, But People. Yeah, I want him home more but I don’t want to give up our good life for an unknown.
The bright side? My husband is at work and I just got the DVD of season 2 of Burn Notice. My problems always seem small compared to Michael’s. And Jeffrey Donovan’s pretty easy on the eyes.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to dump my crap here but I can’t talk about this with my RL friends, they all have one tie or another to my work and my work doesn’t know anything yet.
On June 14, 2010 at 1:15 am Jenny said...
I don’t have much here since it looks like you’re damned if you and damned if you don’t. Or alternately, good things if you do and good things if you don’t. I will say don’t trust MLS to give you an idea of what’s out there. Get a good realtor and tell him/her what you want and to send you pics and info. They do that all the time. They’re supposed to matchmake between people and houses. And maybe he won’t have the same issues with the people that you did. Plus what Bethany said; this could be a chance to do what you’ve always wanted to do but couldn’t: get a landscape degree, plant a labyrinth, rehab an old Victorian, volunteer for something that fills you soul, start an online consulting business . . . You’re wide open there.
Basically, I’d close my eyes and trust my instincts.
On June 13, 2010 at 7:12 pm wendy said...
I woke in the middle of the night and thought that Crusie might have a blog about dealing with anger.
On June 13, 2010 at 7:37 pm marly said...
This and a Fan Fave Top 30 Countdown of Buffy on LOGO channel. There is much fun here, except that I think someone is still enjoying the girl kiss a little too much. I just don’t get it. Or maybe I do and I’m choosing to ignore it.
On June 13, 2010 at 7:49 pm marly said...
Oh, I forgot. Has anyone seen the commercials for the “G-Spout”? Major hilarity.
On June 14, 2010 at 5:29 am Kira said...
“Find your G-Spout on the Internet”? YEAH
On June 13, 2010 at 11:09 pm Bethany said...
Hugs and cherry vibes to Office Wench. Restraining from providing assvice since I’m assuming you wanted vent space not assvice.
I will say that giving up work isn’t always about finances, one of the benefits is the good feeling that a good job can give us. I know I’d go crazy just being “supported” unless I had some awesome project (novel writing? social media for my shelter?) I could then devote my energies toward.
On June 14, 2010 at 1:48 am marly said...
Office Wench Cherry – I finally got a chance to read all the comments. That’s a rough dilemma you have there. Leaving the job and friends and home and just the comfort of familiarity is so hard. If you have to go, though, it sounds like you know how to take a not so great house, even a crap house, and make it wonderful. That’s a talent you can take anywhere.
On June 14, 2010 at 7:59 am Sure thing said...
Finally had the time to watch this and it turned out to be just what I needed today. I’m starting to see things clearly and this was a nice reward.
Must go review my old birthday list because I’d forgot to put Monty Python. Life of Brian’s the only one I own to date.
On June 14, 2010 at 5:11 pm Office Wench Cherry said...
Thanks everyone. Your thoughts really helped.
I’ve spent the day out in my garden planting and thinking. Honestly, and this is going to make me sound like either an idiot or a jackass, it never occurred to me that my husband wouldn’t have the same – or at least the same type – of problems with the people in that office. Just because I was always getting calls from head office asking me to correct their mistakes because HO couldn’t get any response out of them doesn’t mean he’s going to find that same kind of incompetence. Just because I didn’t like them doesn’t mean he won’t. Just because I’m worried he won’t be able to get along with the other staff and won’t like his job doesn’t mean that’s what’s going to happen. It’s not as if he’s changing companies and everyone is a stranger to him. While he works another step removed from them than I did he has still worked with them.
I don’t have the right to force my opinions on him, he needs to form his own.
I had a rose in my front garden that I thought was winter-killed and I was very upset about it. A couple of weeks ago one of the big canes started to leaf out and today when I was pruning out the genuinely dead wood I noticed that not only is it not dead, it’s suckering shoots out all over the place. I was wrong about the plant and I might be wrong about this. I’ve been so focused on worrying about what could go wrong that I haven’t taken the time to consider what might go right. It would be nice to have some time other than November to write.
I’m going to stop seeing this as a damned if we do, damned if we don’t situation and, like Jenny suggested, see it as good things if we do and good things if we don’t.
And if you will permit me a little Cherry/Cherry Bomb humour:
Nothing but good times ahead.
We’re doomed.