A recent personal situation caused me such psychic pain and sadness that I turned to Ebay and collecting Byers Choice figures to keep from thinking about everything that was bothering me. Was this dysfunctional or healthy (considering I couldn't take off for our home in the Hampton's). It's sort of like the recent government Wall Street bailout. When people say, "well, that didn't work" the government's response is "well, you don't know how much worse off we would be if we hadn't done it." So, while I still have been sad, I think it distracted me to an extent. Who knows? If I hadn't spent a couple of weeks doing this, I might be in the looney bin by now. See, coulda been worse.
I will take the fifth on the number I bought, but I decided to stop before Bill got really perturbed. As it was, he was just annoyed. But, I've never been "tough" and when life gets "tough" I generally don't do well. So, what are those healthy and unhealthy coping mechanisms we learned about in college Pysch I? Eating too much. Drinking too much. Crying. Being irritable. Depressed. Wanting to commit homicide. And just how much would therapy have cost? Probably more than I spent on the Byers and I would have only been told what I already know: there isn't anything you can do about the curve balls life throws you, except one day at a time, one step at a time, one deep breath at a time. Whatever you can manage. So, I save on therapy and have the Byers figures to boot.
I do sort of get addicted to things on my computer. Like Napstering during its day, digital photography, this blog, a page on Facebook, some games, shopping, and Ebay from time to time. Not to mention just plain surfing, finding interesting tidbits here and there , looking up information for people (still the librarian in me). However, THAT being said, additionally, I am stimulating the MADE IN THE U.S.A. economy because the Byers Choice figures are actually hand-made in Pennsylvania. Isn't that amazing? So it's an American arts and craft product and some one must support it! Even if they don't need it and said they'd never buy any more tchotchkes (yiddish for knick knacks).
Anyway, they've been arriving every few days or so, thereby double stimulating the economy by making sure the U.S. postal service has lots of work too. So, how do you cope when the going gets rough? And/or how are you stimulating this down-in-the-mouth economy?
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