Comments on: Four reasons why thinking you have problems actually just means you’re a pussy

By: Johnny

Johnny — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:33:12 +0000

Yeah, excuses suck. We have what we have, and we should be thankful for it.

Thanks for the comment!

By: Deanna Thompson

Deanna Thompson — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:14:23 +0000

Can I get in on the reward club as a contributor even though I’m a broke single mother who’s currently being sucked into the black whole of business building?

Seriously, nothing irks me more then watching someone who has “everything”(meaning the basic needs plus 1) go on about how their life sucks so bad. Yet I’m SURROUNDED by people like that in my everyday life. This email could get really long if I wanted to go on about all the times I was wronged and all the times I have to hear female famliy members complain about their loving,support/ive, “I’d prostitue myself if i had to to support my family and you” husbands, and how I’m already short for next months bills AND rent, and how I have to worry everyday that Asthma will take away a life I worked for the last 9 years to save and how my “sperm donor” will blatently tell his kids he can’t take them anywhere in the 5% of their life he spends with them, or how he will tell me this week doesn’t have his two late child support payments..despite the fact he spent the last two weeks in Jamaica(think I’m joking? THINK AGAIN)

I’m not sure me and the kids can spend $15 a night for 5 nights at a local campground because I don’t have the gas money or the tent money to get us there. (there’s more but his is long enough)

Am I bitter? Sure, but do I think my life sucks? NO!

My beautiful, deathly asthmatic,multi-challenged ADD son is still with me, I have a beautiful daughter who will be plagued by man issues thanks to her dad but she wants to go to Haiti and Africa to help, start her own charity, and cries when she gets only 80% on her exam… and for that I am THANKFUL. We don’t have cancer victims in the family and I’m well enough to go to my shitty accounting job to support them, then get up at 5am to write articles for peanuts(hey it’s camping money!) and for that I am THANKFUL!

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I’m relaxing my kung-fu grip | Johnny B. Truant — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:25:51 +0000

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By: Put Your Pity Party Week in Review | Website In A Weekend

Put Your Pity Party Week in Review | Website In A Weekend — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:49:57 +0000

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By: Johnny

Johnny — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:42:30 +0000

@Casey – Yeah, I tried to pretend I didn’t see that.

By: Anne

Anne — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:46:30 +0000

BTW, I love your description of your son at the pool. Ahh, kids. If you’re not a parent you can’t understand the incredible feeling of relief you get when your kids finally learn how to swim well enough so that you don’t have to watch them every minute prepared to fly into the pool (fully-clothed if necessary) to save them when they have decided to be a little too adventurous. I still remember that feeling that I had when my youngest of three kids (at the time) got to that point of being able to really swim. (I can feel that exhilaration even now as I sit here…)

Then…when my youngest (at the time) was eight and my oldest seventeen, I got pregnant again. So…we are doing the swimming lessons again and the pool anxiety (mine not his) again…I will be SO glad when this kid can finally really swim.

You know how “they” say enjoy the moments when they’re young? Those moments by the pool are NOT the moments “they” are talking about.

Anne @alivenkickin

By: Casey

Casey — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:35:16 +0000

Damn – super bummer to watch the blind kid on YouTube and the follow-up video announces his death in January 2009. But, hey, I’m sitting here with two broken ribs and feeling significantly less sorry for myself than before, so well done, sir! (Did that sound sarcastic? It it did, it wasn’t meant to – the meds I’m on are making things a little fuzzy around the edges.

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:55:49 +0000

I learned that most of what people think is “tragic” is just majorly inconvenient. In fact, I get pretty ticked off when I hear people calling something like filing for bankruptcy a “tragedy” when it’s really just a major setback that can be overcome. Lots of people have done it. How did I learn this? Learned it the hard way when my brother was killed by a drunk driver 12 years ago. Kind of has a way of putting things in perspective.

Anne @alivenkickin

By: Sandi Abbott

Sandi Abbott — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:47:27 +0000

You totally made my day with this post! I was laughing so loud my daughter thought I wasn’t industriously working on my computer! I was feeling overwhelmed, stressed and about to pop a gasket trying to me a mom, wife, daughter, biz owner, blah, blah, blah. Now I’m ready to try again. BTW, when I’m rich and famous, you can count on a big contribution to your awesomeness award. Thanks, Johnny.

By: I quit. : Johnny B. Truant

I quit. : Johnny B. Truant — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:34:40 +0000

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