Just One Of Those Days…

by The Mayor!

Yeah, that was definitely a really sh**ty day. To begin with, I did NOT need the frying pan to the face in the form of The Dad innocently commenting that he couldn’t believe next week was March Break already….that, of course, means that it’s also my 40^th birthday already…& yes, I honestly had not realized it was coming up THAT soon….for some reason I still had myself thinking it was, “two or three weeks away”. Gotta love that denial…& you gotta hate it when it’s so rudely smacked right out of you…which is when HE got the frying pan to the face! I used to think I was the only one who had those days….you know, when you just hate everyone, & everything….then The Best Friend came in to my life. It’s such a shame to finally find your soul mate (teehee!) & have them be a chick, when that’s not the way you swing. But I love her as much as it’s possible for me to love someone that I didn‘t give birth to…maybe because she is the only person I never, EVER, fight with…about anything. So when I DO have those days, she gets the phone call, since almost inevitably, she’s having the same day….& even if she’s not, she will happily lie to me & say she is! And despite what people may think about a friendship that is based on mutual, jet black hate (teehee!), we actually do each other a world of good. Nothing makes ME feel better than being able to vent & bitch & commiserate…but not with someone who feels a need to “fix it” or lift my spirits, rather with someone who is just happy to curse out the world, & all the idiots living in it, right along with me. Our personalities are such that the very act of letting it all out on someone who “gets it” is all we need to be able to end the call an hour later, laughing our butts off & “lookin’ for fun & feelin’ groovy”. Thus it was that, thanks to The Best Friend, I was able to get myself back on track after a particularly crappy day yesterday.

There But For The Grace Of God….

That was a day that had me grieving for a family’s loss of their precious 2 year old baby girl, Layla Grace, to cancer, after following her journey on Twitter & the family blog for weeks now, a story that garnered world wide attention as her parents sought out support & the chance to raise awareness through social media….Layla’s legacy. I chose to drop everything & willingly took my own kids to the park again, thinking “There but for the grace of God….”, just grateful I HAD the chance to be with them. In the midst of this arose some bad news & an extremely stressful situation, that on top of everything, I was really struggling to deal with. And of course, there is always that hovering nightmare of The Dad & our uncertain future since he was packaged out, with time passing quickly, & the pressure building. Overwhelmed with frustration & despair, I was so muddled & befuddled, I actually put my Expedition in DRIVE to back out of the driveway, with kids in the backseat, & narrowly avoided plowing this giant truck right through our garage….& that’s just ONE of the bone headed things I did in my fog yesterday! Frustrating for someone who is very used to maintaining control over my world!! So you all got Wordless Wednesday, & The Best Friend got the phone call! And another one this morning….

Keeping The Tooth Fairy In Business!

And then I was okay again! Being that “control” is so very important to my particular mental illness, I’m well aware that focusing on that which I CAN control will ease my stress over that which I CANNOT control….as will the passage of time…(done, 24 hrs. often suffices for me)….& cursing out those who have wronged me with The Best Friend….(definitely done, TWICE)….so to ease the last of the lingering stress & frustration, I set to work on controlling my environment. And dove in to the day to day of Crazy Town that I had chosen to walk away from the previous day! The piggie cage got cleaned, AND the piggie had his very first bath, which the ankle biters thought was much fun, given that any pet, especially a long haired one, looks like a drowned rat when wet! Toys & clutter were tidied, dishes & kitty litter done, dusting & vacuuming were done, (even though vacuuming totally sucks!), & the mound of homework was fought over, cried about, thrown at the wall, & finally completed! And despite the annoyance at being the only one to ever tackle these chores, the good (bathing the piggie!), the bad, (vacuuming & dusting!), & the ugly, (the pig cage & the kitty litter!), I was actually grateful to find myself annoyed at the usual things again….& besides, the day held one more, rather pleasant surprise. The Diva, who has had her very first wiggly tooth for WEEKS now, came home from school proudly clutching it in a baggie…it had finally come out! And The Tooth Fairy gets to make yet another visit to Crazy Town, which you can read all about under my Mommy-ing tab….her visits are always quite a treat for the whole household…even Mommy, now that I’m feelin’ groovy again!!