{"id":44420,"date":"2017-02-21T11:53:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T15:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44420"},"modified":"2020-07-30T11:53:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T15:53:36","slug":"its-funnier-when-its-not-applicable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44420","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s funnier when it\u2019s not applicable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1QBHO6ek2mU?controls=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I make a lot of references to the Jessie Spano caffeine pill freakout from <em>Saved by the Bell<\/em>.\u00a0 A lot of people make references to the Jessie Spano caffeine pill freakout from Saved by the Bell. It\u2019s a great pop-cultural reference for when one is super excited about something, almost <em>almost<\/em> to the point of it being scary, or maybe it actually is scary.\u00a0 Or maybe the part where she breaks down and talks about being scared is omitted, and it\u2019s just a reference to the part where she sings <em>I\u2019m So Excited<\/em>, all drugged out and addled that we all laugh at.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">But how many people remember the context of the rest of the episode?\u00a0 Why Jessie Spano was on \u201ccaffeine\u201d pills in the first place?\u00a0 I doubt nearly as many as the people who make references to the signing part actually do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Jessie was taking speed because she felt that there weren\u2019t enough hours in the day to study and cram for her lofty academic aspirations, and used the extra time not sleeping to hit the books.\u00a0 Sure, it created a mild addiction and an eventual crash that led to the iconic exciting moment, but the context of it revolved around the perceived feeling that there is not enough time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">That\u2019s kind of how I feel lately.\u00a0 Thankfully, I haven\u2019t resorted to becoming addicted to speed or sacrificing too much sleep to accomplish my goals, but I can relate to feeling that there isn\u2019t enough time, and that my daily stress levels are substantially higher than I\u2019d prefer them to be, as a result.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Work\u2019s been busy, but it\u2019s still the current place where I can actually relax a little bit, due to my obligation to be here for at least eight hours a day.\u00a0 I\u2019m thankful that I\u2019m able to compartmentalize my responsibilities and personal life to a degree where it doesn\u2019t impede my ability to do my job outside of my mind wandering to the things that ails me occasionally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">But it\u2019s when I\u2019m not at my job, I\u2019ve been working my ass off prepping my house for the eventual move, and what\u2019s causing me to feel like that like Jessie Spano, there aren\u2019t enough hours in the day.\u00a0 With a deadline in play to have my house emptied, cleaned and prepared for listing, it\u2019s been a frantic whirlwind of tasks and chores that need to be accomplished in a short window of time, in order to stay on schedule.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">In the last few days, Jen and I have been frantically cleaning the house, we\u2019ve loaded a truck full of our overflow belongings, driven said truck to a storage facility and unloaded all of them into its temporary home until we figure out where we\u2019ll end up in the future.\u00a0 I still have to repaint the majority of the walls in my home, and there are tons of small repairs and tasks yet and only days to do it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I\u2019ve been inquiring and hiring various services such as pressure washing, maid service, landscaping and (hopefully) carpet cleaners, and these are all things that I wish I didn\u2019t have to sink so much money into, especially since this is all essentially being done to <em>vacate<\/em> the home, and not really like, preparing a home for <em>entering.<\/em>\u00a0 I understand the essential nature of most of these things, but all it really looks like to me lately is spending money to salvage the curb appeal of a property that there is a very realistic chance that I will still owe money on, even if it sells.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">The process of moving has been draining on both a physical and emotional level.\u00a0 I know it\u2019s what I\u2019ve wanted for a while, to get away from the area of my house, but it\u2019s still depressing to know I\u2019m leaving behind my house, the home I\u2019ve lived in longer than anywhere, and my first attempt at living the American dream and owning property.\u00a0 Sinking as much time, effort and money into it, just to get out of it, seems like something I really don\u2019t want to do, but have to do anywhere, in order to have the best chances at getting away from it with as minimal loss as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Ultimately, this is just more qq-ing over the moving process.\u00a0 I dislike it immensely, and I\u2019m getting really tired of being sad all the time, and I want to get back to a point in life where it doesn\u2019t feel like life isn\u2019t just on hold, but on hold while being sad.\u00a0 I think I\u2019ve done enough treading water throughout the last decade or so, so I guess that if this is what\u2019s necessary in order to start pedaling forward ahead, I guess so be it.\u00a0 I just hope it ends sooner rather than later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I\u2019m not so excited about this so much as it\u2019s scarier.\u00a0 Jessie Spano\u2019s freakout isn\u2019t as funny when it\u2019s a little applicable; contextually and without the drugs.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I make a lot of references to the Jessie Spano caffeine pill freakout from Saved by the Bell.\u00a0 A lot of people make references to the Jessie Spano caffeine pill freakout from Saved by the Bell. It\u2019s a great pop-cultural reference for when one is super excited about something, almost almost to the point of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44420\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It\u2019s funnier when it\u2019s not applicable<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,79,121,37,77],"class_list":["post-44420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-angst","tag-cashmoney","tag-homeownership","tag-job","tag-ronery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44421,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44420\/revisions\/44421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}