Dancing

I read a wonderful expression today. "With one tuchus you can't dance at two weddings!" Tuchus is Yiddish slang for butt, behind, caboose, keister, you get it.

There are a lot of ways I can interpete the saying. The quote was from a business article about setting priorities about what needs to be accomplished in what order, but it applies to many other aspects of my life and I am betting yours too.

I may have mentioned a time or a thousand that I am tired of my job. One of my chief complaints about it is that our resources are spread so thin that difficult to do any one thing well, because we are asked to do five things at once. I tell my coworker all the time that I am not spending most of my life at the job to cover up the mistakes of poor management. I can't be a slave to my job because I only have one tuchus and many weddings to attend. And as astonishing as it may seem, most of them aren't held on company property.

I was thinking about other ways I try, or have tried, to dance at two weddings. Sometimes it is tough to be a responsible parent and have the kids like you too, but we try. Or maybe to tell a friend about an annoying habit of theirs, without hurting their feelings. Can't have it both ways.

I blogged about disgraced Pastor Ted Haggard. He found out that he couldn't be pious most of the time and immoral (at least by the proscriptions of his religion), the rest. Most of us are not all that bothered by the hypocrite label, but when you've hung you hat on that peg of holiness, you can't just take it off every now and then and expect everyone to overlook the empty hatrack.

In a financial sense, you can't make every guy-type money and spend like a rich guy. Well, actually you can for a while, but sooner or later you get dragged out of that rich guy wedding and back in with us chumps. American Express will not be impressed by who you impressed during your Donald Trump Reality Tour.

Anyway, it comes back to doing what we can with what we got, not doing what we can't because we don't got and the wisdom to know the difference (with apologies to Bill W.). No one should expect more than that of us, but of course, that won't keep them from asking.

In the words of the philospher Popeye the Sailor Man, "I yam what I yam." And that is good enough for me.










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