Life is Kick-Ass through Peaks and Valleys

Depending on what our outlook is on life across the board it has some major peaks and some major valleys.  However, if you reflect on the two, I’ll bet you’ll find far more peaks than valleys.

Kick-ass. 

There’s a word that’ll frost you! (Look up “frost you” and see what you find!  It’s a 60s slang expression.)

Makes good sense to me because the valleys do just that; kick-ass right where it hurts the most, and it takes a long time to get over them.  Some people bounce back on the outside, but are they really bouncing back on the inside?

I absolutely abhor listening to someone gripe all of the time.  If they need to gripe, write it down.  I can listen many times and then I slowly back off until I rarely see them.  I do not need nor wish to have those kinds of valleys in my life. 

 I want a kick-ass life in the up sense of the word. 

 This is what my Roget’s Super Thesaurus has to say about kick:

 n. Thrill, *bang, *charge, *rush, enjoyment.  2.  Thrust, jolt, recoil.  3.  Complaint, gripe, objection, *bitch.  4. Stimulation, zing, bite, punch, snap, potency, power, sharpness.

The verb portion of kick:

Boot, punt, drop-kick.  2.  object, complain, *gripe, protest, remonstrate, grumble.  3.  QUIT give up; *go cold-turkey, stop.

 Now – let’s hit the ass part and see what we can dig up in Roget’s…  Ya’wanna?  I do!

 Ass.  N. 1.  DONKEY, burro, jackass, jenny, jack, beast of burden.  2.  BUTTOCKS, rear, rump, *buns, *butt,  behind, *caboose, *cheeks, derriere, *duff, *keester, *kazoo, *seat, *stern, *tush, *tokus, gluteus maximus.  3. Fool, idiot, *boob, jerk, clown, nincompoop, *dolt. 

This is from the Oxford Dictionary.  (I love snooping around and digging up trivia so you can be filled with trivial stuff and I’ll be fulfilled knowing I plain ass made your day!)

kick-ass

Adjective N. Amer. informal forceful, vigorous, and aggressive.

I’m not kick-ass I guess.  Dang it all!

I can be forceful only in given situations, however, I’m for sure vigorous.  I’m learning aggressiveness. Well, the possibility exists that I am more aggressive that I think.

Would that be kick-ass or what?

Now then, in an effort to further our joint education in “kick-ass” I went in search of a quotation or two for the hyphenated word.

“You’re EngSci students:  when it comes to science and math, you kick ass!”     Quotation by Professor Edward Ted Sargent

I guess I am a kind of kick-ass girl! 

Whoo ha! Time to kick-ass!  Write that kick-ass book!  Sing that kick-ass song!  Follow that kick-ass pair of Levi’s and look at the kick-ass fella’s buns in them. This works!

AND I do have some kick-ass red lipstick! 

Think I’ll listen to Maya Angelou, who most likely said it best: “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.  Life’s a bitch.  You’ve got to go out and kick ass.”

You have been given permission to go out and have a kick-ass day!