How Can It Be A Bad Day When...

How Can It Be A Bad Day When...

• it is warm enough to have laundry dancing on the line?
• the illness pervading our home for the last few days seems to have exited stage left?
• every window and door in our home remains open, breeze gently blowing, wind chimes chanting?
• the books I ordered from the library Living More with Less and one thousand gifts have arrived in time to be cracked on my day off?  (Wait: did I say "cracked"?  Best I change that to "gently fanned open" lest a librarian reads this entry!)
• my parents are taking our kids overnight; even if I have two meetings this evening meaning that no date night ensues, I relish it...if only benefiting my brainpower rather than our marriage: we may just get to sleep through an entire night!  Yeehaw...(Wait: apparently "yahoo" is in the dictionary but not "yeehaw" so best I change that "yeehaw" to "Yahoo!" lest a grammatically fiendish wordsmith reads this entry!)?
• a tiny purple and yellow violet pokes its head up through the brightly-coloured leaves on our front lawn?
• our 1/4 of a cattlebeast (yes, that's A LOT of red meat, folks) was ready and not only did the white-coated, lanky, smirking butcher carry out the most massive of boxes right to our vehicle, but I managed to, once home, find just enough room to squeeze it all in amongst the mennonite-made breads donated to our monthly Father's Table free community meal?
• a ladybug, the most ruby-hued one I have seen in a long time, landed on the clothespeg holder just long enough to be admired before darting off to another venue?
• I scrounged up enough coins to treat myself to a large coffee?  Mmmm...I have heard that hockey teams wearing dark coloured jerseys tend to be viewed as more aggressive and in fact have better overall game scores.  Could the same be said for coffee mugs?  Somehow the very dark one beside me seems so much more imposing and exotic and delicious than normal.  (Wait: urbandictionary.com defines "normal" as "A word made up by this corrupt society so they could single out and attack those who are different" so best I change that "normal" to "than usual" lest a bully lexicographer reads this entry!)