TwitterApr 14 2010
Four broken nails, a tiff, and globs of sticky honey . . .
Started off the day early, early by taking Zac to a doctor’s appointment with his urologist. In my truck there was a travel mug leaking milk on my car mat. The first clue was the odor that hit my nostrils when I opened the door. Took the mat out and a chipped nail.
The result of the doctor appointment was, he was a little nervous with the test results so he increased the dosage of one of Zac’s meds. But it wasn’t anything that was unnerving, thankfully. Then I took Zac home, made him lunch, chipped another nail, and went to work till 4.
At work I broke two more nails in two hours. Each nail throughout the day chipped off in big chunks off as effortlessly as cracking the corner off a saltine cracker…
You’d think this would have alerted me…
Then from work to a meeting. From meeting to a conversation with a friend…
which was when I became convinced…
there are times when two people should just agree to not talk anymore for the day. One way to detect that this is one of those times is when you and the other person gets into a bit of a tiff. The tiff evens itself out. Only for the tiff to be resurrected within the half hour.
You hear yourself saying things that you really have no idea why you just said them. Which makes matters worse. Then the other person points it out, you become both annoyed, and then surprised at what they just pointed out…so you try to fix it with a measure of, oh honesty and then the other person responds with verbiage that confuses you and you can’t seem to get them to hear what you’re saying. Then it all ends abruptly.
This is the clue… stop talking today…right now…Tomorrow is a new day. Shoot for tomorrow.
This was the case with me and my friend today…
Then I come home, go into my kitchen slide a bag that’s on the floor out of my way and there’s a thick puddle of honey under it and my slipper is now covered in a sticky goo that only Winnie-the-sucking honey off his paw-Pooh could appreciate. I took the slipper off dropped it in the trash, because washing it seems like too much… I put my now bare foot down and it lands in a another glob of the goo that I didn’t realize was there…I didn’t even try want to investigate the bag. That just would have taken too much energy. It was too much to even consider…I took my foot out of my other slipper, abandoning it in the middle of my kitchen…I’ll clean it tomorrow… turned off the light, went into my living room, picked up my TV controller, selected a funny movie from on Demand Channels and began watching it while I picked at my nails that needed fixing and the others that now need to be cut back because the broken ones are throwing everything off.
During the movie I decided I knew how and what I wanted to tell you about today…you just read it…
Now back to my movie…
Night, love ya,
Theresa Jane
-whose going to even up her nails once back on my couch and I can’t leave before saying, I’m grateful things were as good as they were with Zac’s tests, for the work I had today, for the terrific meeting we had for our business, for the food I was able to buy, for the super size Kit Kat bar I bought and ate after my fall out with my friend, and for the movie that is making me laugh, oh… and for the electricity that lights my home, boots up my computer, and runs the TV, that plays the movie that allows me to laugh. Life is Good.
WOW! That seems like a crawl back in bed pull the covers over your head kind of day. I am impressed that you didn’t do that.
A red flag for me is your nails. Are you taking care of yourself and getting what you need to stay healthy? That could be a sign that something is missing.
Yea to Zach and I hope he continues to stay on this improvement track.
You tiff, if it is a true friend it will be worked out, if not a true friend and it takes lots of work to repair it is not worth your energy. That energy is needed in a better place, for you.
The honey mess, at that point I would have curled up on the floor(hopefully not in some honey) and just start sobbing. Just thinking about cleaning that up scares me. I hope it wasn’t to hard of a job.
Now I have to give a huge shout out to Kit Kat and funny movies!!! We girls love our chocolate and I find it amazing how much it can make us feel better. I find Martin Short, Robin Williams and others to be better than any Antidepressant medicine.
My hope is that you don’t have another bad day like that. I know things go wrong in life, but so many in one day is just wrong.
I am sending you love and hugs and wishes for great to come your way. Kellie
Thank you so much for your reply. I enjoyed reading it.
You were right on my pulse and it just was nice to come here and read it.
I too love Robin Williams and Martin Short. Recently watched Birdcage and I laughed till it hurt. Got to watch it again.
Today my friend and I talked and things are much better. I figured they would be, but when you go through it it’s distressing.
Theresa Jane