Day 21: Ugnaughts

So we pick up where we left off and this is the 21st non-consecutive day I have been blogging. Hooray! I'm having a lot of fun. I really intended to include a short story or something besides just regular ol blog updates but things don't always go as planned.

That actually is what I want to talk about. Ugnaughts are these little ugly, pig-faced oompaloompa-looking mugs that are in charge of garbage disposal or something in Bespin Cloud City in the Empire Strikes Back. They are responsible for C3P0 getting disassembled and now I have officially talked too much about Star Wars.

Kids love these guys.

The reason I bring these guys up is that it's also a good name for the little things that go wrong over a day. I know at the end of the day, I lie awake and stare at the ceiling, tallying up all the things that go well and all the things that went wrong, swearing vengeance on all my enemies...well, maybe not that extreme. Some days, though, minor infractions against me eat away at me. Those are the ugnaughts, just working the flames of their thought-forges and making me concentrate on the wrong thing. Every night, before I sleep, instead of thinking of what went wrong, I should be thinking what went right. For starters, I'm still alive. I might not wake up that way but for the moment, if I'm still alive, that counts for a lot.

I'm trying to think of the counter for ugnaughts but I honestly can't, especially in the Star Wars universe. First of all, every single dwarf is a jerk. From the jawas that tased R2D2 to the stupid dingleberry ewoks, none of these little people are something I could say represents an entirely positive force. In fact, my favorite part of Star Wars is the lightsabers but I'm not going to say "Before I go to sleep, I like to ignite my lightsaber." so I guess I need to step out of the SW universe and figure out a good sort of slang for these sorts of things.

Seeing as we are also on "U" and there is something I like very much that starts with "U", I think I'll call my little end-of-the-day-positive-thoughts my "undeads". See, when I go to sleep, it's like that day is dead and over. If I keep the positive things in my head, it's like they are surviving again and so this happy thought zombie baby floats on and keeps me warm when I feel like the world is full of stupid, horrible ugnaughts that only want to dig little tunnels in my brain for more of their kind to take root. It's cheaper and healthier than what I used to do, which is drink until I pass out.