a silver lining

so in an effort to try to find the bright spots in my miserable life, i thought i'd come up with a list:

• the apartment is so small and we have so much furniture that we only have to vaccuum selected paths
• we bang into the furniture so often that we all have bruises ... saves on those costly tattoos, and they are not quite as permanent
• the hot water in the apartment is so hot that we don't have to sterilize Peanut's bottles
• Jenny goes for a walk a couple times a day
• with two offices plus working from home, i'm never looking at the same four walls for very long
• i haven't gotten lost yet
• i'm building upper body strength by hauling around the pump and my important bag of shit
• premium gasoline is almost below $3.00 a gallon
• with the kids in two different daycares, we get to experience a variety of caregiving styles ... and the kids are building immunities from all sorts of different bugs
• i'll probably max out my FSA this year because i'm going to have to find a shrink

seriously, we both are gainfully employed, and although we are living pay check-to-pay check supporting two homes, we haven't gone broke yet. everyone is healthy. but i am down, and lonely, and can't find anything to look forward to.