And It's not even Monday

[Back2Jake]

Ever have "One of Those Days?"

It might go something like this....

Get up earlier than you need to because your cat is insistantly talking outside the bedroom door telling you to. Start work a little earlier and mistakenly delete something you worked hard on the day before. Due to a lack of sleep, or the cat sitting beside you at the computer no doubt.

Get the kids off to school and realize you forgot to give them their milk orders, so you KNOW you are not going to have happy kids that have to drink from those nasty fruit boxes for the next month.

Get into the shop and get spray adhesive on your glasses.... again. Start cutting plywood which you haven't cut in ages. Learning that you haven't changed the blade or the speed you use for 1 1/2 thick wood is a sudden shock on the 1/4" plywood as it dances across the table and you have visions of cutting butter with a chainsaw!

Go to the gym and admit you really don't want to be there, but hey it isn't obvious to anyone cause they are looking at the toilet paper stuck to your shoe... wondering how long it will be before that treadmill shreds it off the sole of your shoe. Shoes are a problem for you today because you later trip off a thigh machine right in front of the men's change room. Apparently no one told you you were the entertainment at the gym today.

You come home and do a little housework. Decide to change that lightbulb in the floor lamp and inadvertedly shake and drop the lightbulb on the floor. The sudden ****POP*** of the bulb shatters it across the floor. After cleaning up the crystals of glass... you try again to put a bulb in only to somehow manage to feel the electrical current make you wonder if you will see your children grow up. Apparently not a good day for electronics.... more later.

Your daughter makes supper and it smells yummy. You finally feel like the day will end better but no.... you're wrong!!!!! The yummy smell is a banana burrito smoothered in chocolate. The kids love it but not much of an adult supper.... and then you know you need to go to the gym again tomorrow. More sweat.... and lets hope your left hand and arm have feeling by then....

So you sit back and check the forums. You are in the midst of writing a letter and put the laptop on your lap as you sit in your recliner.... tough day.... swing open the footstool and here a crash behind you because you didn't remove the printer cable from the USB port. Yep ... crappy day for the electronics.... looking around your recliner you see the printer smashed on the ceramic tile. Well atleast you know what to ask Santa for this Christmas.

Sigh...... its a quiet evening now. Going to watch Hardcore (Canadian version of UFC) and hope tomorrow is better. Giggle.

Ever have one of those days?????

Take care
Toni

[minowevie]

too funny, hope tomarrow will be a safer day for you. leave the cat outside.
your friend Evie

[Kevin12]

LOL, Toni. Not at you, but WITH you. Yes, I've had days like that. (I swear I've had WEEKS like that.)

I suggest the Serenity Prayer. Over and over and over and over and ...

1. That thing you worked hard on -- there was something wrong with it -- you may never know what it was, but you get a second shot at it.
2. It's good for kids to see their Mom have to handle stuff.
3. Think of all the things people have brushed their teeth with!
And my cut from the SS blade is still healing.
4. You were indeed entertaining and maybe even made some new friends.
5. Okay - this is the scary one, but at least you didn't get cut.
6. The chocolate banana burrito: Ya think you were being told to be good to yourself and enjoy a bit of decadence? Adult? Pshaw!
7. Printers are cheap - some people buy a new one when the ink runs out.

I always read your signatures. They're spiritual and inspirational. I think you'll make it.

I really did LOL.
Thanks for the post.

[Back2Jake]

LOL, ya... yesterday was funny.... NOW!

I think the Serenity Prayer is simply the best... and don't believe there is a day that it isn't remembered in some part of the day.

Take care
Toni

[JohnB]

G'day Toni,
The best part about all of this is, it can only improve from now on.

[Wood Dog]

We can just be glad we are around to enjoy the day. One of my favorites is from the Reader's Digest.....years ago.
"Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, savor you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it will not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky, and want more than all the world your return."
(Mary Jean Irion, Yes,World: A Mosaic of Meditation)

[JohnB]

G'day WD
This is one of my favourites.
“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.”

Buy the Duke

[Plaquerd]

Just remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday and the yesterday you will reflect on tomorrow. Take it one day at a time, the way it's meant to be.
Dave