I choose not!

From Bridget Jones' Diary:

At times like this, continuing with one's life seems impossible ... and eating the entire contents of one's fridge seems inevitable. I have two choices: to give up and accept permanent state of spinsterhood and eventually be eaten by Alsatians ... or not, and this time i choose not. I will not be defeated by a bad man and an American stick insect! Instead, I choose vodka. And Chaka Khan.


The vodka and Chaka Khan bit always makes me laugh. I was turning a few things over in my mind tonight, contemplating this and that. I received one of the best compliments of my life today. I don't want to cheapen it by going into all the whys and wherefores but it was said to me by someone with nothing to gain-- just a purely sweet, wonderful thing to say and to hear. In the midst of this, there is another situation that makes me feel . . . well, I guess the best word I can conjure for it is unpretty. That's just no good. So I choose not to allow someone else's negativity to dampen my mood. No, no, no. I choose not. I choose chocolate and Gervais! I am going to watch the Extras special and laugh my happy ass off and that is that. I will not be eaten by Alsatians, nor will I feel unpretty. I will enjoy this fucking awesome piece of dark chocolate and Extras. And then I will look at the backs of my eyelids for a while. When I wake up, this issue will be out of my head because I will it so. If you can make your idol smile, what else do you need to worry about? *Deep, contented sigh*