This post has nothing whatsoever to do with public relations or media, even social media (well, peripherally social media).
That’s why I’m calling it the “everything in between” post, since that is mentioned loud and clear in the tag line of this blog.
I think most days are good days.
As someone said to me on Twitter a while back (can’t remember who it was, sorry), “Every day you wake up is a good day.”
True.
But today was a crap day.
It should have been a day I was resting, after minor surgery I had on Thursday (I’m fine); minor, but “surgery” enough to necessitate general anesthesia, which left me a bit loopy the rest of Thursday and even yesterday.
I prepared for this by taking care of all my pending work in advance, letting my clients know, etc.
So I should have been resting on the couch, perhaps with a fire going, devouring books on my Kindle (a birthday gift from My Lovely Husband).
Instead
even though it was the first day since Wednesday night that we woke up to a warm house – our area had a tremendous winter storm on Wednesday that saw our power go out that night and not return, like an errant child, until last evening – I spent most of it in the ER and then “Express Care.”
MLH slipped on an icy porch and hurt his back so badly that I had to take him to the ER.
And you can imagine what that was like.
After about 3.5 hours there, they moved us to “Express Care,” probably because I harassed them so much about when he’d be seen that they wanted to get rid of me. Then we spent another few hours in EC.
Fortunately he should be ok; the X-ray didn’t show any damage but mightily bruised ribs – but as the day wore on, I started to feel as if I had beetles crawling around in my brain and it was all I could do to not scream at the top of my voice.
When you’re in a situation you have absolutely no control over, you start to think mean thoughts.
Like, “Why is ‘Queen Latifah’ pretending she can knit when she doesn’t even know how to hold knitting needles?’ ”
And, “If that child screams ONE MORE TIME…”
I know there are people much worse off than us.
I know we are relatively safe and, after all, we do have a roof over our head, the lights back on (did I tell you it was so cold in the house yesterday, before the power came back, that we could see our breath inside the house?), and my husband was finally seen to and is back home, after about six hours – he could have been in a much worse state, but he isn’t.
And I am grateful for all that.
As I am grateful for the messages of goodwill that flowed to us both over Twitter and Facebook, many from folks who have never met my husband.
Truly, you guys kept us going.
But for all that, it was a crap day.
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Ah Shonali, sorry about your crappy day! We all have them from time to time.
I hope this is not insensitive, but your post is bringing to mind a joke my oldest friend used to tell:
“That’s Life”
“What’s life”
“A magazine”
“What does it cost?”
“A quarter” (very old joke)
“I only have fifteen cents!”
“That’s life.”
She also used to say this to me:
“Cheer up, things could be worse.
And sure enough I cheered up and things got worse!”
You gotta laugh sometimes. It helps.
@Lori That made me laugh, Lori. Thank you! I particularly like the “cheer up” bit.
I have a tendency to say “Good morning!” on Twitter and Facebook. The other day, alexandrafunfit asked why on earth I was so chipper, or words to that effect. I was just glad she didn’t call me “perky.” No offence to any perk-meisters. But when I had the crappy day, I thought, here we go, ONE day when I’m NOT “chirpy.” :)
@Shonali alexandrafunfit I’m with you – I think it’s cool to say good morning on Twitter! I’m going to start doing that! (It’s all rather new).
Yes, my friends jokes never fail to uplift. I think of the second one whenever someone says, “Cheer up!”
@Lori alexandrafunfit You know what is fun about the GMs on Twitter, is that you can often bring together completely different people, some of whose circles might not cross otherwise. @hackmanj will vouch for that.
I’m sorry. I know you’ve had a crap week and this isn’t funny. BUT…Queen Lattifah and knitting?! Beetles in your brain?! OMG! We would be terrible together…people watching at its finest and with beetles in your brain, we’d be really mean. On that note…what are you reading today?
@ginidietrich You should have seen her. This is probably going to sound completely snarky, but I learned to knit when I was… oh, I don’t know, probably 6 or something (my mom’s crafty like that, and thanks to her I can mend clothes pretty decently as well). So when I saw her, I was like, Girl. You do NOT know how to knit. Why are you pretending?
Of course, all that helps when you’re trying to take your mind off the disaster that the ER is!
I’d love to people watch with you, Gini-gin-gin. Date?
Kindle: I think that day I finished reading “One Amazing Thing” by Chitra Banerji Divakaruni. It’s awesome. Have you read her? Great writing.
Ditto. Sunday can’t get any worse right? Hope you get your Kindle on today and get lots and lots of rest. Big Love tonight…woot!
@ericaholt So… what is going ON with Big Love?! I mean, I know it’s winding down and all, but do they really have to make it so dire? IMHO, Bill is a complete disaster. And don’t get me started on Nikki…!
Rest up you two! Hoping your Sunday brings you lots of peace and quiet.
@hackmanj Belated thanks, Joe! It was actually very tiring, as was yesterday – 2 days of catching up, cleaning up… but today’s better. Fingers crossed it will continue like this.