Samurai Stress Reliever

So I've been a bit stressed out of late. Not nearly as bad as at the "job from hell," but stressed enough. Stressed enough to make me feel on edge. Blech. I hate that feeling. At least it hasn't brought back the insomnia, though. Nothing was worse than stress AND insomnia as a package.

Anyway, I've been a bit stressed because work is just piling up. I have a HUGE pile of crap to do at work, and now we're sitting in a four-week freeze on anything that requires new power. ALL of my stuff ultimately is predicated on new power. CRAP. So now I have even MORE work that I can't do for the next month. Blah.

Add to that tax season and I'm ready to blow. Fucking taxes piss me off. There is absolutely ZERO fucking reason for taxes to be so complex, except to confuse you and make you pay more than you owe. On top of that, my taxes have been getting more and more complex over the last four years. Now, oddly, that is a blessing, since it means more money in more investments and maybe having a faint whiff of hope for retirement. But it FUCKING STRESSES ME OUT, even with the amazing software wonder, TurboTax. FUCKING TAXES! I FUCKING HATE THEM!

But I filed the taxes last night. And after the absolute MONDAY I had at work that day, and taxes right after, I decided it was time for a little stress relief.

Cue: Lone Wolf And Cub. Fuck yeah that was EXACTLY what I needed. I've been netflixing the entire series, and last night I watched the fifth and sixth films. Talk about stress relief...there's simply something cathartic about watching three hours of Japanese melodrama about a wandering ronin assassin and his son. After three or four hundred bad guys had been chopped into bits of varying sizes, I felt a LOT less stressed.

If you like samurai movies, then you need to see Lone Wolf And Cub. All six of them. Now. Do it! RELIEVE SOME STRESS!