“There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.”
You’ll get no cheery good mornings from me today. Already I hate today. When I went to get the papers, I tripped and fell. I cut the hand I used to cushion my fall and now the two last fingers of that hand are useless. It’s a good thing I only type with two fingers or I’d really be in trouble. When I got up off the ground, there was no one there to say comforting words and ask how I was. I walked slowly and a bit mournfully into the house and cleaned the now bleeding cut and put the swelling fingers under cold water. After I’d finished the first aid, I found holding my hand up made me look silly, but it made my hand hurt less. I’ll take silly over pain any time. Finally I got my coffee and carried the cup, papers and my pen outside to the deck hoping the morning would perk me a bit. I took a sip of the coffee, and it had grounds in it. Of course, it had grounds in it. On a morning like today, there had to be grounds. I decided I didn’t want to make another pot so I started reading the paper. Nothing in it was cheery, as usual. The Mid-East, the drought, the budget and Lord knows what else combined to make me feel even worse. Even the Red Sox had lost and Pedroia’s hitting streak had ended. I decided to read the comics and do the crossword puzzle. I couldn’t hold the pen right so my letters were all outside the lines and the words were barely readable. I had a bit of a cry for myself.
I never have days like today. Usually a fall doesn’t bother me at all, even when I break bones. It’s just something I do well. Coffee grounds-no big deal. I’d normally make another pot, but not today. I didn’t dare risk it. I had visions of pieces of glass all over the floor and me stepping in the tiny pieces I’d missed.
My friend Tony called about movie night. I said sure, but I know the tone of my voice belied my words. He’d said he’d barbecue, and I said okay with little enthusiasm then it all spilled out. I even added the part about my iPod, and how I can’t add music or delete it or how iTunes doesn’t even recognize I have an iPod, a really well-named iPod. He brightened my day by inviting me to dinner and drinks. I think I should capitalize the D in Drinks.
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July 30, 2011 at 1:06 pm
Sending quick-healing thoughts for your sore fingers and hugs for a sore soul. May you soon be channeling cheerier tunes!
July 30, 2011 at 1:10 pm
Thanks, Sprite,
I feel better already. My fingers are still swollen but they hurt less and my iPod is uploading my files. I think I just needed a few kind words, thanks for those, and a bit of venting!
I think the hug helped the most!
July 30, 2011 at 1:34 pm
Everybody needs a good cry now and then. Hope that by now you are feeling better and your fingers are on their way to healing.
July 30, 2011 at 4:31 pm
annulla,
I totally agree! I feel much better, but my hand will be purple on one side or a while. The good news is I have another side!
July 30, 2011 at 1:57 pm
I´m so sorry about Your bad morning! I fell out in the forest the other day but the ground was so nice and soft that I at least didn´t injure myself. I do hope the rest of Your day is better!
I´ve been waiting for rain all day but so far I think only one drop reached the ground. I want to continue to paint my cottage but I can´t if its going to rain but it never seems to do so. Well there are worse problems in the world after all 🙂
Have a great evening now when the morning wasn´t!
Christer.
July 30, 2011 at 4:32 pm
Christer,
I would have fallen and broken a bone somewhere!
The day is 85°, but I have the air going, and I’m quite comfortable. I have a book to read and will leave for dinner in an hour. Life is getting better!
You know if you paint your cottage it will rain!
July 30, 2011 at 2:07 pm
Hi Kat,
Sounds like breakfast and Drinks would have been an even better idea. 🙂
Rocky and I went for a walk down by the lake. I took tons of photos of dragonflies now that I know how to stalk them. I even saw a monarch butterfly. I never see them until October when they are heading to Mexico. It always makes me a bit sad when i see them then because I know that winter is coming.
I went to the farmers market, bought some nutritious fruits and veggies and some not-so-nutritious hard cider and I had chocolate hazelnut gelato for breakfast. An excellent start to the day. Since then I have accomplished absolutely nothing. Not bad.
Sometimes all our little frustrations gang up on us and a good cry is our only defense. Please accept my virtual hug and my wish that your aching fingers heal up quickly.
Enjoy your dinner and drinks. 🙂
July 30, 2011 at 4:36 pm
Hi Caryn,
If I had had some champagne, a mimosa would have been perfect!
How do you stalk dragonflies? I see them here, but, of course, not when I have my camera. Maybe I should start carrying it for those sorts of opportunities.
You had a great morning! I am glad that some one of us did. There is no law that says you have to accomplish anything. I have come to believe that accomplishing nothing and being guilt free is an accomplishment in itself!
I’m thanking you for the hug! Virtual or real, each hug helps!
I’m looking forward to an easy-going evening with my two best friends!
July 30, 2011 at 4:26 pm
Yeah, get smashed. That is the usual cure all for a crappy day when nothing goes right. I finally got a really difficult commercial lease done, check in hand, all year debating between lawyers mostly on the side of the Israeli Lobby. But it got done and they move in today and it saved my summer financially. So while you’re having a bad day, I slept in, played with Zoey and made a huge breakfast of steak and eggs. It just depends on the whether the God’s are with you or not. Be careful. Things unfortunately come in threes.
July 30, 2011 at 4:38 pm
Z&Me,
The neighbor across from my friends’ house has a pool. I figure to imbibe enough alcohol to make sneaking into that pool inviting!
I already had number three bad thing. When I went to make my bed, I found that Fern had thrown up on it twice.
I’m glad all went well for you!
July 30, 2011 at 4:53 pm
It’s a few hours past when you wrote this and I hope the day has improved for you and you’re feeling better. Here’s my contribution:
(how have others been able to imbed videos?)
July 30, 2011 at 4:54 pm
Oh! It automatically imbeds. Fancy.
July 30, 2011 at 4:58 pm
im6,
I just answered that and posted it when this one popped into my mailbox.
July 30, 2011 at 4:57 pm
im6,
This is a perfect choice. I am a Judy fan. I still remember sitting in the tiniest lobby of the hotel in Philadelphia where we had staging, the pre-fly to your country part of Peace Corps training, and reading that Judy had died.
I think WordPress does it automatically.
July 30, 2011 at 6:18 pm
Everything’s Coming Up Roses!!!
Things WILL get better, Kat.
July 30, 2011 at 10:55 pm
Thanks, Rick!
Right now the right side of my hand is turning purple and swollen almost beyond recognition, but I feel just fine. Dinner and drinks with friends did the track. Thanks for the encouragement from Ethel!
July 30, 2011 at 7:10 pm
Kat
Hope hand and fingers are ok, falling down really suc
July 30, 2011 at 10:55 pm
My Dear Hedley,
One would think I should be used to it by now!@
July 30, 2011 at 7:12 pm
Oh dear, the iPad sometimes has a will of it’s own. I was saying that I hope that the hand and fingers are ok, our movie night involves Foyles Law
Two weeks until the old country, very excited to be heading for Dartmouth and the Peak District
July 30, 2011 at 10:57 pm
My Dear Hedley,
One side of my hand is so swollen out of shape it could be a prop in a 50’s horror movie. I can see it now prowling the halls of a spooky, dark mansion just looking for ts next victim!
July 30, 2011 at 11:26 pm
OMG! Wilder’s Hand!
Purple and swollen out of shape is not a good sign. The last time any body parts of mine were in that condition, they were broken.
July 30, 2011 at 7:53 pm
Kat,
Sorry about your dreadful morning. I know those mornings…and I when I fall I want comforting words also. Glad your friend called and you were able to spill everything out and and by now you are probably having your 3rd drink. Glad Fern threw up, so you could get three things over in one morning. That’s quite a feat! Here is a virtual hug… and a wave.
Lori
July 30, 2011 at 10:58 pm
Lori,
Thanks for the hug-it helped, and I’m waving right back at you!
Things are better, and I’m just about tired enough for bed. Falling can be exhausting!
July 30, 2011 at 11:10 pm
There are good days and there are bad day and some should be rained out.
Sounds like this one should have been rained out!
MT C
July 30, 2011 at 11:29 pm
Carl,
The day got better I’m happy to say. It is close to ending says I with a sigh of relief!
July 30, 2011 at 11:30 pm
Caryn,
Everything moves, just not well, and I can’t carry anything with those two fingers. The thumb and the other two work just fine!
July 31, 2011 at 12:04 am
Cheers
July 31, 2011 at 8:26 am
Minicapt.
When I was a senior in high school, I took speech and debate as an elective. She had us read aloud in parts the entire Mikado. I loved the words but didn’t know the music for a long while It became a favorite of mine thanks to that teacher.
July 31, 2011 at 6:19 pm
When my aunt was 81 she tripped & fell while walking home from the grocery store, breaking her arm. She got up, went home, put her groceries in the refrigerator, fed her cat, changed her blouse, then walked a block to the hospital emergency room, her right arm dangling uselessly by her side.
My aunt is one tough old bird.
Hope you’re feeling much, much better now.
July 31, 2011 at 8:36 pm
buzz,
I love your aunt, and she and I have much in common!
I was on a ladder washing the outside of the window. Next thing I knew I was waking up on the ground, my head just a few inches from the concrete wall. I wondered what the wonderful smell and reached back into my herb garden and pulled out the wonderful smelling lemon verbena. I got up, couldn’t use my arm, but went inside and used only my right to move the table back so I could finish the window. I didn’t go to work the next day as I couldn’t get dressed. I went the next day but kept my arm bent at the elbow against my waist. My boss sent me for x-rays. I had fractured my shoulder.