When I'm not feeling all yuck, I often muse about the people I am surrounded by and let me tell you - WHAT A CAST OF CHARACTERS!

I'm nobody special, but I have imagined what it would be like to have a camera follow me around all day. I think it would be hilarious when it's not depressing. It's the type of thing that people would really believe is made up but I swear to you, the people I have listed are real, the quotes are actual, so that you might get an honest feeling for the people I'm describing.

I think my life would have bits and pieces of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," and "Seinfeld." Seinfeld has quite the cast of characters and it's a show about "nothing." Absolutely perfect. I'm going to think about a name for my show, but here's my cast of characters....Names have been changed to protect the innocent lol.

Calliope - Main character. Middle aged, ADHD, Bipolar rock star at work, and a train wreck at home. Mother of twenty-something son who lives at home and wife to a man doing a stint in prison. Native New Yorker relocated to Florida to get out of the city. Picked Florida to be near best friend Lisa. Champion for the underdog with an off beat sense of humor. Sees herself as completely helpless while other people see her as either needy or extremely strong for holding it together as well as she does despite her difficulties and circumstances.

Jonathan - Introverted, gregarious, handsome buff son of Calliope. Self proclaimed femininst who loves dinosaurs, robots, robot dinosaurs and superheros. A true nerd at heart who once a week is told that he looks like "Clark Kent." Quote from Jonathan: "One of the best Christmas gifts you ever got me Mom was those luxury underpants. I don't know where I'd be without them. Probably still wearing those Fruit of the Loom and Hanes with Mister Johnson and the Juice Crew flying all about during my workouts. Now they're locked down with the c__ck pouch like luggage on the roof of a traveling car. Not going anywhere."

(I'm thinking this is definitely an HBO show lol).

Lisa - Misanthropic best friend of Calliope for 30 years. Mother of two twenty-something girls and wife to a very affable man who makes clear that opposites attract. Lisa keeps a Louisville Slugger in her car "just in case" and is best known for her dry sense of humor and no filter way of dealing with the world. Quote: "So I'm at Wally World when this bean eating, no shoe wearing, no tooth having yip yaw decides to reach their arm over Freya's head to reach a candy bar. 'Do you not see the child in front of you? Were you raised in a barn? If you get that close to her again, I'll break that arm of yours, so I suggest you keep your distance."

Nadia - Younger sister of Calliope who she looks up to. Despite their tumultuous upbringing, Nadia has always managed to "do the right thing" and is the caregiver/rescuer of the family. She's an entrepreneur who after finding dissatisfaction with all 3 of the successful businesses she has started has decided to go back to school to learn about alternative learning styles in order to become a teacher. Her current role in the family is mentor and therapist as she is trading in her cape in favor of her own mental health. Her theme song is the Theme to and the mantra of her life, can be seen in the image below:



Arielle - MUCH younger sister to Calliope and Nadia. At about 2 years old, Arielle was bringing pitchers of beer to the kitchen during a keg party the sisters held while Mom was away. Arielle was a teenage "Hood Rat" who has been in a gang, did a short stint in jail and moved out of the city to be closer to family hero Nadia after jail. She has since rebranded herself into an extremely successful General Manager of a Retail Cosmetics store even though her dream job is to be a mortician so she doesn't have to deal with people. You can take the girl out of the hood, but you can't take the hood out of the girl. When describing an argument with another manager in the store who was waving her hand in her face her response was QUOTE: Calliope, I almost blacked out. I was about to fvck that b_tch up. I told her 'Leave my office. Get out my office right now. This is going nowhere real real fast and it's going to go left real quick.... I'm going to 100% honest with you. I'm about to lose my shyt, for lack of a better term because I'm trying to be nice to you, but I'm really about to break. So you need to get out my face and you need to take your @$$ on break and calm down because you're not going to take me out of character,' her character being the poised "get 'er done" manager that she has worked to become.

Jeannette: Calliope's sponsor from back in the day at her 12 Step program who is now a mentor and keeper of Calliope's sanity. Jeannette missed her calling as a therapist or a Buddhist monk. She's the picture of serenity because she works at it and has talked Calliope down during many of her meltdowns over the years. Her theme song is from Frozen.

David - Calliope's therapist. Also has that peaceful zen-like quality that Calliope likes to surround herself with to help quiet the constant noise and turmoil that consumes her on the daily basis. Calliope is right now dealing with a crush as she finds his nurturing and calming demeanor extremely attractive.

Carla - Calliope's friend in mental health issues as she deals with ADHD, OCD and relationship issues with her husband. She's a funny, creative, disorganized, get little done type which is the thing she and Calliope share. When Calliope was told by a couple of her friends that she never listens when they talk, she went to Carla to be the tie breaker. She asked Carla, "Do you ever feel like I don't listen when you talk?" Carla responded, "Totally! But that's OK because I do it to you too."

So anyway, this was just me musing out loud, and I thought I'd share it and I thought that THIS would be an excellent place to do it. I figured all of us here have issues some of which would make an interesting show. Mine would just happen to be a comedy a lot of the time. I hope some of you will share.