How happy are you, right now in your life?

[John DiFool]

Me, I'm pretty content-never been better actually. I just watched a wonderful sunset, with Venus and Mercury very close in the western sky, and got one of my ACT students to reach his score goal. But I've been like this more or less for 18 years now (you would never know I once suffered from severe depression). So I'll be a bit modest and peg myself as a "9".

Poll is private, with expiration date.

[BigT]

I went with 2, mostly because I get hit with these really low lows every once in a while, and they take out the moderate highs (I'm talking 5.5 at most.) I used to be a whole lot happier, but didn't realize it because I had never been this down.

[Not a Platypus]

Right now I'm pretty lousy. I'm finally getting back in shape, so that's good, but not having a job is really getting me down. My boyfriend and I are both stressed out about money and it's affecting my sleep and I just feel like I'm not good enough. I've been applying for multiple jobs every day and have had a whole 2 calls. It's so discouraging.

[even sven]

There is no way to say...

My life is amazing, and is unbelievably exciting and fulfilling. It's been like all my dreams keep coming true. On a grand scale, I am pretty happy.

Right now this second I'm pretty content, just wasting time before I have to get going for the day. I'm watching funny stuff on YouTube and drinking sweet coffee.

Week by week, though, I'm up and down. I'm at a point in my life now where I am just waiting for the next thing to happen. There is not that much that is immediately fulfilling me, and I'm not getting a lot of life's pleasures. I've gone through a tough couple of months, and that has weighed on me.

So I am all these different levels of happy and unhappy at once.

[Tristan]

My wife wants a divorce, after we moved 3000 miles away from all my friends and family, and has told me that she never really felt she loved me the way a wife should love a husband, but it was easier to get married and hope for the best than to tell me this 7 years ago.

I'm at a 2, and have been for a few months now.

[kelly5078]

My life's pretty good. I'm beginning to contemplate retirement, and this causes a whole lot of things to come up. Like, can I really afford it, if so when, and where will I go, and what will I do. So I'm evaluating a lot of things in a half-assed way, and that sort of eats into my general contentment at the moment. I expect to get past that, though.

[HazelNutCoffee]

Work is stressful at times, but overall I enjoy what I do. My boyfriend and I are at a good place in our relationship, but because of his father's recent illness it's been a rough time in general. I haven't seen him in over a month. So my life could be better, but it could also be a lot worse. I am more or less content.

[wolfman]

I am at a 5 holding pattern for a few more days.

My get in shape plan is proceeding on course, but a long way to go. But mostly I am waiting on a job interview decision after being out of work for 6 months. i thought the interview went well, and they are hiring 2 people. But there are hundreds of people out of working programming in the area, so I know they might get a couple who blow them away.

It's a job I'm a good fit for, and could do fairly contentedly all things considered. In other words I have my hopes up ;)
Will likely go to a 2 or 9 on Monday or Tuesday,

[Really Not All That Bright]

I'm getting married in a month and I'm finally going to law school in August after 5 years of dithering. I've won my weekly poker tournament twice in the last three weeks.

Life is gooooood. :)

[Drunky Smurf]

Sorry to all in the dumps. I hope things get better for yous.*

I chose 7 because objectingly my life is awesome. I have a good easy job, good family and friends and I'm single so I get to do whatever the hell I want whenever I want.

But I feel like my life has stalled and is stale even though I enjoy what I do for work and in my free time. I know I have it good compared to others but I still get the feeling that I'm fucking up, not doing enough, not doing what I should be doing and sometimes I get really lonely. During those feelings to cheer myself up I'll go out with friends or family but I'll think while I'm out that, "Fuck, I'm enjoying myself now but tomorrow it'll be back to the same old same old." and it won't ruin my current excursion but the next day the prophecy comes true.

I know I should change things and find hobbies and other stuff to do but I don't and I don't necessarily mind that I don't until those feelings return.

So I guess for TLDR:

I think my life is awesome but I don't feel that way.

*And what the hell is the plural of you? Yous? Yous guys? You people? Yo MTV Raps?

EDIT: Well hell dude, RNATB, Congratulations! Winning poker!, kick ass, well you are the stud aren't you. Oh and the marriage thing or something. :p

[olivesmarch4th]

I put ''moderately content.'' As a grad student, I don't think I can expect much more than that.

No, seriously, I've done a lot of work on myself... sometimes I forget how much. Yesterday I was cleaning out the closet and I found an old letter from my therapist to the director of Services for Students with Disabilities describing this psychologically crippled person who was missing weeks of class at a time, often forced to withdraw, and should be provided all these extra accommodations... I had no fewer than four clinical diagnoses... chronic PTSD, recurrent major depressive disorder, anxiety disorder NOS and dysthymic disorder.

That letter was written seven years ago. When I read it yesterday, I had just come home from a full week of graduate school classes and 24 hours of internship work, spent some time working on a paper and then stopped by the local book store. You know, like a normal person.

It's so easy for me to forget that there was a time in my life when my husband had to drag me out of bed and enter into extensive negotiations just to get me to get dressed and walk with him to the corner store.

I felt like I was reading about someone else, in some other life, so far away.

So yeah, I might have some anxiety and depression here and there, but I have a life. Can't complain.

[gwendee]

Right this very moment I'm miserable. I voted a little higher than I actually feel today (just a little) because I'm conscious that as bad as things are for me today, my house hasn't been destroyed by an earthquake or a flood, I'm reasonably healthy, and all my basic needs are amply met.

If I saw myself as the lowest level the universe might respond by finding a way to prove me wrong.

[badbadrubberpiggy]

Things are pretty awesome right now. We're having our first baby in August, moving to MA in September where my husband got a job (his first choice, and his second choice also offered him a position!).

[lieu]

Pretty damn content. Wonderful wife, beautiful and loving child, challenging career I enjoy, have done a good job of planning and saving and now am enjoying those efforts, have tried to surround myself with the things I enjoy and limit my exposure to those things I don't. There'll be a few hiccups from time to time but they're easy to ignore now because everything else is so durn good.

[Annie-Xmas]

Well, let's see: I'm unemployed, living on savings, and have had a cast on my left arm since March 1st--a full plaster cast that went halfway up my upper arm for 25 days and now a lightweight fiberglass one that stops near my elbow.

How happy am I expected to be?

[jjimm]

Positives:

Amazingly well-paid job
Not much debt
Healthy
Roof over my head
Enough to eat

Negatives:

Divorced and childless, wanting to find love again but instead being messed around by various women
Job is stressful and boring
Mortgage is pre-recession, so can't afford to leave the pre-recession salaried job
Don't care much about myself really
Undergoing forms of mood-related inertia

I gave myself a 3. I have been at a 0 occasionally in the past couple of years, so it's an infinite improvement.

[Crafter_Man]

I'm an 8/9.

Positives:

Healthy, for the most part.
Wife with three healthy children.
Good paying job.
Home in the country with lots of land.
Love my job.
No debt.
Advanced college degree.

Negatives:

Chronic fatigue/lightheadedness.
Wife has stress and anxiety issues.

[Anaamika]

I put an 8. I could be more happy with my career - really, my pay scale, since work is relatively unimportant to me - but my home life is happier than it's ever been in my life.

[Eliahna]

I voted 8 - I'm happy :)

I'm coming out of a decade of misery and now I'm content with who I am, where I am and where I'm going. There are "details" in my life that need work, but they aren't getting between me and feeling happy.

[lezlers]

I put myself at a 9 (there was no 8.5, where I'd really put myself), I'm pretty damn happy.

Positives:

Just moved into an awesome house with my boyfriend, who I'm madly in love with
Happy at my somewhat well paid job
Training for a half marathon which makes me feel physically and emotionally happy
Lost over 30 pounds last year and have kept it off


Negatives (or, could be better)

32 years old, never married and childless (something I'm hoping to remedy)
Still a bit awkward at work, socially (never date people you work with. Especially when they're social director of the office)
In a bit of a holding pattern at work (which should go more in the nuetral category than "could be better.)

[Lissla Lissar]

7- moderately content, occasionally ecstatically happy, and sometimes going nuts. I have a less than 2 week old baby and a diabetic toddler. It's a little crazy and sleepless. If I were getting more sleep, it'd be more like 8. I have two beautiful children and a wonderful husband, and very good friends.

On the con side I have the stress of trying to juggle our older kid's medical condition and not having much money.

[pbbth]

I voted 8. Everything is great except my apartment. We are trying to get out of the lease because it has become an unliveable environment but the landlord is hemming and hawing about whether or not he will let us out of the lease despite the fact that the ceiling came crashing down on my head 2 days ago. Other than that I have a wonderful fiance that I am marrying in 4 months, a great job, and kitties who sleep in the bed with me. That would make me a 10 except for that whole apartment thing.

[MeanJoe]

I voted "8" and I am pretty content and happy right now.

Pros:

Great job - I get to work from home, travel for work about 1-2 times a month, and I make (IMHO) a pretty darn good salary. I'm valued and respected by my peers and senior/exec management. My manager is very hands-off with me and trusts that I'm doing my job every day and does not micro-manage me. I honestly love what I do right now.

Home - I own a house that I love and am getting many of the large projects/improvements completed.

Friends - I have a great core group of friends, some I've known for 25+ years.

Finances - I've not been in the paycheck-to-paycheck grind for quite awhile and my current income affords me the extra income to indulge my Want Monkey. Being single with no kids helps too! Haha

Relationship - Dating a great woman for about a year now. She is affectionate, loving, funny, and brilliant. It helps that she is also tall, blonde, and has great ta-ta's. :D

Cons (or the things that worry me):

Home - My place was built in 1890 and boy can it be a money pit. Additionally, due to the house market getting crushed and already owning in a neighborhood that was building momentum and gentrifying but has lost a lot of the gentrification momentum and property values have tanked, I'm now underwater and owe more than the house is worth. Although I had no plans to sell anytime soon, I know I won't live here forever. It worries me that should an opportunity arise, I'm kind of stuck with this house unless I want to take a substantial (to me) loss.

Finances - I just don't know how to save and invest for retirement properly. I'm woefully unprepared for retirement. I've recently significantly bumped up my 401K contribution amount but that is probably too little/too late. I know I need to significantly curb the discretionary spending and redirect that income into retirement/investment funds. I'm the literally "grasshopper" in the childs story! Haha*sob*haha!

Self-Image - This is the single biggest thing that causes me to be unhappy right now. Definitely not my single biggest issue (see finances above) but the one that hits me in the face every day. I've put on to much weight the last year or so and I'm very unhappy with my weight. (5'9", 215lbs) I was just looking at pics from St. Patrick's Day and I was really embarrassed to see how big I've really become. I guess my image in my head of myself was that perhaps I'm carrying a few extra pounds but I'm still a pretty fit guy... Crash-Boom-Pow collision with reality right there!

Relationship: I'm 40 and no kids. My girlfriend is fantastic and I can see this has the potential for long term, i.e. marriage. The biggest problem is she does not want kids - ever. Now, I can't exactly say I can see myself as a father right now. I enjoy my life as it is and the freedom I have to do all the things I do. On the other hand, I am feeling a bit of that "Oh crap dude... you are 40!" and I have had moments of envy when seeing some of my friends start a family. I guess how I feel right now is... although I'm not pushing to have a kid right now, I can't honestly say I'm ready to take it off the table. This gives me pause about my current relationship. :(

So... A few changes here and there, some minor and some fairly significant, and I'd probably peg myself as a 10.

[An Gadaí]

0 :(

[Ludy]

I voted 8

Pros

Beautiful healthy baby girl who has started to sleep through the night!
Great husband
Cute little puppy (well at 6 years old not really a puppy, but she will always be my puppy)
Fantastic friends
My boss gave me an extension on my Mat leave so my husband and I can go to Peru while baby stays with her grandparents
I love my job and the shows we will be doing next year should be great, and very challenging
I have a secondary career as a set designer and my last design got rave reviews
Its spring and the return of the sun always helps :)


Cons

I have been super busy so the house is a disaster and looking at the mess without having time to deal with it is a bit stressful
The show I am designing now is a gong show and I have had to step in to do more than I had anticipated so the show will be done in time.
There has been issues with booking the Peru trip, so I can only hope we will get the tour we want.
Even though I have lost the weight I gained from pregnancy I need to lose more, and that has been slow going.


But I might just have rose coloured glasses on from my full nights sleep :)

[Nametag]

I voted "2"; I'm jobless, broke, can't get an interview, fear that I won't get an unemployment insurance extension, fear that I'll lose my apartment in June if I can't, my roommate's leaving so there goes that money, I'm taking increasingly poor care of myself, I'm a rotten father, can't afford to date or get involved, and my energy is dropping. But I'm not homeless yet, and I felt pretty good at the moment, so I put "2."

Now that I've read your 8-9-10 -- I would like to make that a 0.5, and I hate you all very much.

[MLS]

I was going to say 9, but modified it to 8. I have a new granddaughter and it's spring.

Downgraded it because there are a number of things that are in my life that are chronic difficulties (mostly health issues for family members and me), and it would be nicer if all those were magically fixed.

[MeanJoe]

You know, as I've read some of these responses I want to add something...

To those of you who have voted lower numbers, I feel empathy for your situations. I've been down there in the 1 to 3 range a few times in my life. Sometimes for years. I don't want to sound patronizing or cliched but persevere, push on, and keep going.

MeanJoe

[cmyk]

I'm at about an 8 (bordering on 7).

I love my job... and it might be changing into a dream job very soon (we shall see).

I love my family, and we're all healthy for the most part.

I see my friends often, and we have a good time when I do.

I get to have and do plenty of things I love.

I only wish I had more free time and could vacation more. Other than that... what else is there?

[cmyk]

You know, as I've read some of these responses I want to add something...

To those of you who have voted lower numbers, I feel empathy for your situations. I've been down there in the 1 to 3 range a few times in my life. Sometimes for years. I don't want to sound patronizing or cliched but persevere, push on, and keep going.

MeanJoe

No doubt. If this poll would've happened when I first became a member (2001), I would've voted a 1 or 2.

[mnemosyne]

I went with moderately content. It's a beautiful day outside, and a four day weekend, and I'm generally feeling pretty good, but...

I have a ton of homework which will force me to stay indoors quite a bit. I have a ton of housekeeping to do, since I've been so ridiculously overwhelmed with school lately. My husband has been away on business for 3 weeks, won't be back for another week, and even then, it will just be for a couple of days before another 2 week trip (although I'll be joining him for part of that one - yay!) My best friend is moving to the UK and I'm really happy for her and yet already missing her, even though she's not gone yet. My cat has been sick, and I keep worrying about her.

So many little things like that dragging me down, but over all, as I said, I'm feeling pretty good. Life has been a lot worse, and as much as I can hate school sometimes, I do not regret for one instant my decision to return.

And did I mention it's a nice day out? Well into the 20s (that would be Celsius) and sunny for the next couple of days!

[Sleeps With Butterflies]

I went with 9 because I really can't think of too much in my life that I would change. The health of a couple of people I know, and that's it.

[maladroit]

You know, as I've read some of these responses I want to add something...

To those of you who have voted lower numbers, I feel empathy for your situations. I've been down there in the 1 to 3 range a few times in my life. Sometimes for years. I don't want to sound patronizing or cliched but persevere, push on, and keep going.

MeanJoe

worst username/post combo ever

[Onomatopoeia]

I voted 8 because I always think things could/should be better, but I'm pretty happy, and have been riding this wave for quite a few years now.

Pros
- Wonderful, supportive, and devoted wife
- 20 year marriage anniversary coming up this year
- Well paid for what I do
- Nice home in NJ
- Small beach/vacation house in FL
- All the requisite mid-life crisis toys
- Good health and fitness
- Zero debt (except for my mortgage)

Cons
- The quickening cessation of follicular activity and increasing chroming of my dome :)
- I'm too content as an employee to make the jump into full control of my destiny as an employer
- It's alarmingly more difficult, and not much fun, to maintain my level of fitness than it was just 5 years ago
- The realization that my parents have reached a point where assisted living decisions will probably be necessary within the next year or so

[FoieGrasIsEvil]

Wife has stress and anxiety issues.

I voted a 2 for this very reason. My wife has no emotional control, and it negatively impacts my marriage, my children and my sex life. And my job is boring.

[Really Not All That Bright]

EDIT: Well hell dude, RNATB, Congratulations! Winning poker!, kick ass, well you are the stud aren't you. Oh and the marriage thing or something. :p
I would have gone with "10" but I'm concerned about my inability to correctly set my priorities. ;)

[Perciful]

Life is sweet! :D

[Voyager]

I put down a 9. Both kids are out of the house and doing great. Financially we're in great shape (knock on wood) and just sent in our last tuition payment. Married life cruising along at a great level. Work is fine. Health is good.

Only reason I didn't put down a 10 is that I'm not retired yet, and so can't spend all the time I want to on home fun stuff, not that the stuff I do at work isn't fun.

[Vihaga]

I put 8. Husband's fine, everyone in my life is healthy and reasonably happy, I've kept off the weight I lost this fall (though I haven't lost any more, but baby steps), I've started going to the gym, I love our house, I am starting a new, better job in a month, and financially things are looking good.


I only have two complaints right now, one of which is that my husband and I don't seem to have as much free time lately, and another is that he doesn't seem very happy in the suburbs, though he loves the house itself. The big one is that my husband started a new job recently and was specifically told that there would be "no to minimal travel" during the interview, or he wouldn't have taken it. In the seven weeks he's worked there, he's been out of town for three weeks in a row, and he'll be gone for two weeks more, at least. This has been surprisingly stressful, not so much the travel itself (though that is annoying), but that he left a secure, decent job for this one. Plus, if they'll lie about something as crucial to a job decision as travel, what other surprises do they have in store? He's been really depressed about it, which has been a downer for both of us.

[pravnik]

8 or 9. Wonderful wife, great friends, exciting, interesting, and fulfilling job.

[Skammer]

I said 8. My wife and kids are great; I just got a raise and a big bonus at work. I don't totally love my job but I don't hate it and I'm thankful to have one. We have 38 friends and family members coming over on Sunday after church to celebrate Easter with us. So pretty good.

[Fair Rarity]

I'm at a 1. I'd put a zero, but it seems that every time I think things can't get worse, the gods or FSM or whatever says "Hahahaha, but of course it can!"

So it's not zero because it could be worse, I suppose.

(No job, can't get interviews, car is a piece of crap, no money, no friends nearby, am chopping of entire dysfunctional limbs off my family tree, recent nasty divorce, ongoing nasty custody fights, the absence of my child for too much time to a dangerous situation, am about to move into a homeless shelter, and have been sicker than almost any other time in my life for the last three weeks. yay)

[PandaBear77]

I'm at a 6. Most of my life is pretty cool but the stuff in it that needs improvement Really Bothers Me(tm).

[Rushgeekgirl]

2. I know many people have it so much worse, but I'm really not very happy at all most of the time. I can't say more or people might start offering me mental health advice and someone will end up banned.

[CPomeroy]

I went with seven because I really do love my job although sometimes I have to remind myself of that, I am pretty well paid for what I do and I own a wonderful piece of land in northern Minnesota with basically unlimited potential. I still need to work on that lack of significant other thing and other issues before I can move up, but I am happy with where I am right now.

[Earl E. Bird]

1.

Negatives:
No job, no income.
No significant other, I feel lonely all the time.
Haven't gotten laid in several years.
Severe anxiety panic, can't get out of the house without meds.
Crushing seasonal depressions, despite meds.
Gained 23 kilos (50 pounds) the last 9 years, all fat.
No sense of self-worth at all.

Positives:
Great health, I'll probably live forever. Whoop de doo. :p

[gravitycrash]

I voted 8. I'm in a good place right now in my life. A relatively stable job helps a lot and I just found out that I was approved for refinancing on my house which is a huge relief. My daughter is doing well in college and the family in general is healthy.
I can't really complain about much right now.

I would have voted 9 or 10 if I could get laid more often but we can't have everything, right?

[EvilTOJ]

Life itself is actually good. I got my kids from their crazy slacker mother, I have a steady job and a house of my own. It's the crippling depression that keeps me from enjoying it.

[salinqmind]

I see I'm not alone with MY anxiety and depression. If I didn't have THAT, my life would be a 7 or 8. As it is, I try desperately not to give in to the middle of the night what-ifs and breathe deep and take things one thing at a time. ... I often feel, though with good reason, that I am overdue for a looming crisis just around the corner. I've had it fairly good for a long time, and an anvil just HAS to fall out of the sky onto my head.

[Unintentionally Blank]

I voted 8....We weathered the last 5 years with less money, but got things restructured so we can still 'do things' with the money we have (electronics projects, wife does DAR, we're restoring her car)

The kids are growing up awesome so far and turning into neat people.

My work has never been less fulfilling. The state is consolidating. The only expectation is more 'doing more with less' (like that was different from the last 12 years?) So I choose to not include work in my assessment. It keeps the mortgage paid and I'm confident I have a place in the New World Order. That's enough.

[Asimovian]

My wife wants a divorce, after we moved 3000 miles away from all my friends and family, and has told me that she never really felt she loved me the way a wife should love a husband, but it was easier to get married and hope for the best than to tell me this 7 years ago.

I'm at a 2, and have been for a few months now.Wow. I am going through a very similar situation right now. Same feelings on my wife's behalf, except we'd just bought a house together rather than having moved 3,000 miles away. But otherwise, just about the same situation. I say this to tell you that things *will* get better for you. And you have my utmost sympathy. I look forward to a happier future for you. If you ever need an ear, feel free to PM me.

[jsgoddess]

If I typed out the pros and cons, the cons should win. That's what a rational person would say.

But I'm happy. 8.

[even sven]

If you want some unsolicited advice, check out my thread on my project to make myself happy (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=556264&highlight=meditation).

I looked up the science on what activities make people happy, and then set out to do them. It's actually pretty simple- just a few simple activities have been proven to make a big difference.

The change has been nothing short of breath-taking. I'm only a month into this experiment, but my outlook on life has changed completely. A month ago I was pretty much crying every day. Now it's entirely different. I am more confident, energetic, social, productive and content than I can remember being in a long, long time. The changes started happening after just a week, and my cycles of negative thoughts started petering out after only two weeks. If you are serious about getting out of rut, I really encourage you to check it out.

[Chefguy]

Retired, no debt, loving wife, sleeping cat, fun place to live. What's not to like?

[Gleena]

I dithered between and 8 and a 9, then went 8.

Fab husband, almost done with his MBA, great kid, many positive life changes in the last year, it's all really freaking good!

[Gyrate]

None of the above.

Objectively my life is okay - a lot of debts and problems but nothing we can't handle, a healthy marriage and a decent job. Subjectively, I am a perpetually miserable person but I have a little daughter who brings me great joy even in those moments where she exhausts and exasperates me.

So 0, 5 and 10 in different ways.

[gks1]

Voted 0. Rarely a day goes by where I didn't wish I was dead.

[dre2xl]

Voted a 8

Good stuff -- great career, great husband. I'm well blessed and I would like to believe I have been a good steward of these blessings. particularly looking forward to paying off our mortgage in a few short weeks.

Bad stuff -- DH's in the military and we made the decision to live apart. We're also delaying kids until goodness knows when. I don't know if the logistics are ever going to work out.

[CrazyCatLady]

Positives:
Great health, I'll probably live forever. Whoop de doo. :p

Well, you still have your sense of humor, at least. That's gotta be worth at least another half point, right? :)

I'm an 8. I'm married to a good man who loves me, we're financially stable enough that I can work part-time, nothing major has gone wrong with the house for a few months in a row, and we and our loved ones are as healthy as one can reasonably expect. Besides, it's April in Kentucky--dogwoods, redbuds, Keeneland, Makers Mark Ambassador weekend, and weenie roasts over the firepit on the patio.

Aside from having poison ivy pretty much everywhere but my ass and crotch, most of my bad stuff is long-term issues that I cannot change and so choose not to dwell on. Things like my grandma having what appears to be the early stages of senility, my other grandparents being of variable but slowly declining health, and my dad being a fatal vascular event waiting to happen. I can't improve these situations, or even make them go downhill less slowly. All I can do is accept them for what they are and not let the specter of tomorrow taint what is good about today.

[Tamryne]

I voted an 8.

Good: Steady job, about to begin grad school, engaged to a wonderful man, dog is growing up and calming down, living in a great area, and its gorgeous outside right now.

Bad: Fiance is in his first year of law school with associated stressors, really unsure whether this job is something I want to do in the future (librarian) and not much in the way of money each month after supporting myself and fiance on my salary. Plus, facing the decision to either spend every penny of our savings to pay for my MLS and his JD or find student loans.

Overall life is moving forward and things are well. I just keep looking at the big picture and am very thankful for having friends and family nearby.

[Rysdad]

8

The only thing holding me back is that retirement is a little more than fours years away, and I hate waiting.

Other than that, things are pretty darn good.

Also, you happened to ask this on a nice, sunny, unseasonably warm spring day. Ask me again in January when it's minus 20 and my answer might be different.

[blondebear]

My personal life is a solid 9, but my work situation drags the score down to a 7 overall.

[Trepa Mayfield]

I'm content pretty much all the time. So 7.