Every Goddamn Day.

Today I have discovered what will likely be the biggest obstacle in the life of this blog. Posting something new every single day. That means every. Single. Day. Rain, snow, sleet or hail...like a mailman, except at least mailmen get vacations, sick days and Sundays off. This means I'm getting the message out EVERY DAY and am, therefore, more badass than a mailman (plus I don't wear those shorts and socks, so thusly the badass points grow). Unfortunately the weather isn't the biggest problem. It's dealing with all the things that come in the Living packaged deal--and writing a blog EVERY. GODDAMN. DAY. No matter what happens. No matter which raincloud hates my parade.

It's part of the experience that I really wanted to get from this, though. As an author with deadlines, I wouldn't be allowed to let my personal life affect my work, unless it influences it and makes the emotionality of it stronger...but I digress (I've always wanted to say "I digress" in something! Goal #3,737 out of the way!). The point is, every, every, every, every day is a day to get work done, and with goals, one must be single-minded to do so. I still will do anything for the ones I love and calamities always happen, so sick days must be allotted, but work needs to be worked.

Anyway, "Every Goddamn Day" is so much more than my little self-involved blog. It's a way of life. We have to be on, we have to be lucid, we have to work, love, eat, clean, fight and live every goddamn day, unfortunate though it may seem at times. There is never a true day off. A disservice that a childhood with a Gameboy did me was cause me to wax quixotic about life with a pause button. I am not alone in wishing one could just hold up one's arms and say, "Okay, everything stop! I need a time-out!" How fervently we wish we could pause the game. Who hasn't prayed to the Coach to bench us for just a little while so we could at least take a breather?

Let everybody else play for a little while, I'm tired.

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That was going to be the end of this post. But in the interest of keeping my chin up, let's end this differently.

This doesn't have to be all about how frustrating the days are. It can be an exuberant, "Every goddamn day I get to do what I need and want to do!"

I use it in terms of amazement of my loved ones still putting up with me: "These people are here with me...every goddamn day. Holy wow."

My favorite, though, is when one changes the inflection to that of a battle cry, a stubborn insistence to accept happily all the good stuff and make the bad stuff get the hell out of the way: "THIS IS MY LIFE!! EVERY GODDAMN DAY!!!"

That's the go-getter attitude. Cue the troops. Let's do battle.