i had one of those days today…

you know, the ones where nothing seems to go right.  i just wanted 15 minutes more sleep this morning - which turned into 30…

…and i think i’ve been trying, all day, to get that time back.

then, even racing down the 408 didn’t get me to my appointment on time - good thing i’m kind of like a race car driver! - once i hit I-4, it was all downhill….actually, more like a parking lot…

since our refrigerator broke just before we left town - and, of course, we didn’t realize it wasn’t working until everything in it was room temp….

anyway, so i had to make another marathon trip to wal-mart.

i think half the known continent did too…..

then, i chose very unwisely when picking out a basket….of course, i didn’t realize how unwisely until the basket was piled so high that things were toppling out.  it didn’t want to go in a straight line…or to the right…or forward.

so, i was relegated to pulling the basket down the aisle and saying, “excuse me” and “i’m so sorry”…A LOT!

and, of course, the one thing that i desperately needed was on the opposite side of the store from where i was wrestling my basket….and then the other thing that i desperately needed was on the other side…again - i played this game for a while until i lost the desire to live much less my desperate need for whatever it was i desperately needed when i pulled into the parking lot….

then, at the check-out, i decided to resort to the 2 for $1.00 “hot” peanuts next to the register since i hadn’t eaten in….well, yet….and it was 2:00 pm.  of course, when i wondered to myself what that thunderous noise was and realized it was a repeat of the DELUGE, i decided to buy 2 cheeseburgers at the wal-mart mcdonalds and wait out the rain….

but, my basket didn’t want to go into the mcdonalds….so, i just gave up and dragged the cart through the parking lot and the torrential downpour…at which point i still had to unload said basket…in the torrential downpour - whilst an SUV with it’s blinker on metaphorically tapped it’s foot at me while i unloaded said broken basket in said torrential downpour…

and while they did have “hot” peanuts at the check-out, they did not have an umbrella…not that i could’ve held it anyway….

so….

but, my day did make me thankful:

• thankful for LARGE sunglasses
• thankful for starbucks
• thankful for friends that call
• thankful that i didn’t wear any hairspray
• thankful for ponytails
• thankful for husbands who recognize “certain expressions” and unload said trunk - quickly….without saying, “wow! what happened to you?!”
• thankful that my boys act like it’s christmas morning over getting a book called “dairy of a wimpy kid”
• thankful that, for all my dramatics, the rain did stop - and nothing really suffered except for my pride…and maybe my yellow box flip-flops with the cool fake diamonds on top
• thankful for flip-flops with cool fake diamonds on top…..even if they Rest in Peace….
• thankful for pork chops…bought in bulk: 25min. - BBQ sauce - yummy.
• thankful for that 25 minutes….

So, it was just one of those days, but I can still choose to be thankful…

…oh yeah, and if you happened to be a said Wal-mart today:

Your welcome…for the comic relief! 

Peace to the out!