{"id":451,"date":"2005-07-07T01:55:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-07T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=451"},"modified":"2005-07-07T01:55:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-07T08:55:00","slug":"disinterested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":"Disinterested&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obnoxiousaries\/24095833\/\" title=\"*sigh*\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos18.flickr.com\/24095833_28f111adb7.jpg\" alt=\"\" height=\"233\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m blah. You&#8217;ve noticed. I&#8217;m trying really hard to get back on the bandwagon. I want to be happy, perky, fun and laughing, but it ebbs and flows.<\/p>\n<p>I swear I feel like i&#8217;m running from one thing or another all the time. It&#8217;s anxiety one week, back pain the next, depression glaring at me from the corner just waiting for something so it can pounce.<\/p>\n<p>I watched Dateline last week and it had the guy who had to cut off his arm to get out of the canyon. He was starting to see things&#8230;because he had no water. It came down to the amount of water he had left. His body couldn&#8217;t stabilize heat and cold if he didn&#8217;t have water. He kept talking about the need for water. I have water. I have running water in 3 rooms of my house. I even have access to water in the front yard and in the back. With all this water; why am I not okay?<br \/>\nNow i&#8217;m obsessed with drinking water.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m certain that if I drink enough I might be okay.<br \/>\nIf I ever get caught in a canyon in Utah I have enough water stored in my hips to keep me for at least a good 2 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>After that, send help.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hating Tom Cruise right now too. I feel guilty everytime I take a Xanax. I think, &#8220;Well, it&#8217;s not like i&#8217;ve even tried to take a vitamin and walk a little.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Is there such a thing as a &#8216;happy pill&#8217;? I want the &#8216;get your shit together so you&#8217;re not freaked out all the time&#8217; pill. I would totally buy those.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m feeling disinterested. <\/p>\n<p>A long time ago it seemed like I kept getting the question, &#8220;How you doing?&#8221; and I always said, &#8220;I&#8217;m hanging in there.&#8221;<br \/>\nI think that might have been code for, &#8220;I&#8217;m actually slipping into a deep depression and you might want to hide sharp objects.&#8221;<br \/>\nNo one heard me. They just heard, &#8220;i&#8217;m hanging in there.&#8221;<br \/>\nI swore after I got better that I would never say that again. I swore that if someone asked me how I was doing I would be honest. I would say, &#8220;FUCKING FANTABULOUS.&#8221; or &#8220;I&#8217;m not doing so well today.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>As of late&#8230;I&#8217;m just hanging in there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m blah. You&#8217;ve noticed. I&#8217;m trying really hard to get back on the bandwagon. I want to be happy, perky, fun and laughing, but it ebbs and flows. I swear I feel like i&#8217;m running from one thing or another all the time. It&#8217;s anxiety one week, back pain the next, depression glaring at me from the corner just waiting for something so it can pounce. I watched Dateline last week and it had the guy who had to cut off his arm to get out of the canyon. He was starting to see things&#8230;because he had no water. It came down to the amount of water he had left. His body couldn&#8217;t stabilize heat and cold if he didn&#8217;t have water. He kept talking about the need for water. I have water. I have running water in 3 rooms of my house. I even have access to water in the front yard and in the back. With all this water; why am I not okay? Now i&#8217;m obsessed with drinking water. I&#8217;m certain that if I drink enough I might be okay. If I ever get caught in a canyon in Utah I have enough water stored in my hips to keep me for at least a good 2 weeks. After that, send help. I&#8217;m hating Tom Cruise right now too. I feel guilty everytime I take a Xanax. I think, &#8220;Well, it&#8217;s not like i&#8217;ve even tried to take a vitamin and walk a little.&#8221; Is there such a thing as a &#8216;happy pill&#8217;? I want the &#8216;get your shit together so you&#8217;re not freaked out all the time&#8217; pill. I would totally buy those. I&#8217;m feeling disinterested. A long time ago it seemed like I kept getting the question, &#8220;How you doing?&#8221; and I always said, &#8220;I&#8217;m hanging in there.&#8221; I think that might have been code for, &#8220;I&#8217;m actually slipping into a deep depression and you might want to hide sharp objects.&#8221; No one heard me. They just heard, &#8220;i&#8217;m hanging in there.&#8221; I swore after I got better that I would never say that again. I swore that if someone asked me how I was doing I would be honest. I would say, &#8220;FUCKING FANTABULOUS.&#8221; or &#8220;I&#8217;m not doing so well today.&#8221; As of late&#8230;I&#8217;m just hanging in there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}