Life does happen sometimes you know.
I often get perturbed when I have a crazy bad day and someone will throw at me, "could be worse." Of course it could be freaking worse! I know those are good words to live by and yes life "could be worse" but darn it sometimes I may have a blue day and it's not the end of the world. Life isn't always sunshine and roses (even at Christmas time). However, again if I get down in the dumpsy I'd appreciate people just acknowledging it and letting me move on instead of the whole "appreciate what you do have."
This week the stupid couch wouldn't go down the basement. I have beautiful new furniture upstairs that I'm thrilled with. Downstairs I was planning on sending down our ratty 10 year old plaid set down and I bought two feasible lazy boy chairs that aren't the trendiest of items but match said plaid set nicely. We now have 2 ugly yet extremely comfortable chairs and I hath been given permission to buy new furniture; a real wife would be thrilled right? We ended up at a clearance center for another loveseat as we know they'll fit. So we have a power reclining loveseat waiting to be picked up. We'll see how lovely it looks. I keep telling myself it's just a basement. The whole couch deal really flipped my lid. I just didn't want to spend another $800 for a piece of furniture that I didn't want or really need in the first place. But that's life.
2nd piece of crap deal - Tommy has the flu fierce. He's been puking all morning. So now on Christmas Eve's Eve we have to worry about everyone getting sick. Could be worse right?
Joe and I were supposed to go out today and finish our shopping. He took the day off, I signed the kids up for childcare. It was going to be great. The whole day together. Once Tommy puked a second time I just saw the life sucked out of Joe. He was so depressed. Somehow Joe and I will get back in sync either both depressed together or so happy together and hopefully by some miracle no one will be sick the next few days. It's not looking too good though is it?
I guess maybe all I can do is cry...but I won't because it's not worth crying over because truly it "could be worse."
9 comments:
No one wants to be around people that are perpetually happy. Sometimes life just isn't fun to put it in polite words. So you complain about it and move on. May your tomorrow be a better day.
Sending you a cyber hug! We're in the same boat here, Chuck is the one with the stomach bug here so we're doing the "wait and see" thing too! We decided to cancel our Christmas dinner with my family because there's no sense in ruining everyone's day if one of us is sick. At least this way they have time to make a Plan B. Bah Humbug! And yes, it always could be worse but sometimes we just don't need to hear that!
Thanks Julie - It's already looking like today is going to be a better day. Glad I don't have to be perpetually happy around you either. ;)
Sheila - Ugh, I hope Chuck is doing better. Bummer you had to cancel dinner. I hope everyone else stays healthy and Miss Malayna and family have a very Merry Christmas.
Hi Dawn - well, how did it go? Malayna and I are still healthy (knock on wood). I'm so glad we got through the day and she was able to enjoy it and so were we. It was actually pretty nice having no plans and made for a very relaxing day. Merry Christmas!
We also made it knock on wood. No sickies except for Tommy. I imagine a day of just being home at Christmas could be nice in it's own way. Glad you and Malayna have been spared the flu.
I hope that things ended up OK. It is hard when you have plans for a whole day of Mommy/Daddy time and it ends up being canceled. Hang in there!
Kiera - Thanks, all ended up well and no one else got sick. A week later I think we're in the clear! Yay!
I'm actually going to blog about this (someday anyway). It drives me crazy when people say "it could be worse". I too appreciate when people can just acknowlege that sometimes things are sucky - we all know it can be worse - and you, like me and like most people are so grateful for what we have. But sometimes things are crappy.
I'm glad that everything seems to be going better!
I can't wait to see the basement!
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