Mama Said There'd Be Days Like This

I am rarely in a bad mood, but today I woke up ready to bite everyone’s head off. On the way to work I was rehearsing any of a number of arguments I could have.

This was to be a half day of work, followed by a lunch for volunteers at Temple Micah, and then I planned to take the afternoon off to hang out with my husband who just came back from a trip out of town. So it was supposed to be a day of leisure from noon on.

Instead I got a message at work reminding me about a 6:30 meeting at Temple Micah for something I got coerced into doing. I had never heard about this meeting before today. What nerve, I said. Argh!

I’m anxious at work about something my staff completely botched earlier in the week and which is now overdue.

I sat in an hour-long meeting at work where they didn’t talk about a single thing of interest to me. What a waste of my time and the government’s money.

The afternoon plans that started out in my head as a trip to visit museums turned into taking in a movie, which then turned into just coming home.

I usually have competing ideas for something to write about, but I was hard pressed to come up with this drivel. There are some days when the glass is simply half empty.

Maybe I need to take a happy pill. Or maybe I just need a swift kick in the ass to remind me how good my life really is.