At least that is what I am telling myself tonight. Today was\u2026well\u2026.not the best day.\u00a0 I was over at our new home construction site meeting with plumbers, electricians, framers, etc doing a walk through when I turned right smack into a huge wood beam that was setup to temporarily hold up one of the walls.\u00a0 It wacked me right in the forehead, eye, and cut my nose.\u00a0 I thought I was going to pass out at first, but I was able to regain my balance and my husband got me back home where I could lay down and get ice packs on my forehead to try and help stop the major goose-egg that was quickly growing and turning purple\u2026.no such luck\u2026it looks like a mother goose went to town laying a few major eggs on my forehead and nose\u2026.ouch!<\/p>\n
As I laid here with ice on my head and the room spinning in circles I thought to myself, \u201cwhat a bad day this turned out to be.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s amazing how we can wake up and have everything going just great and then in a matter of seconds something bad happens and turns our good day upside down.\u00a0 It happens to all of us and sometimes it happens a lot and all in a row, thus the old saying \u201cwhen it rains it pours\u201d.\u00a0 But all I can do is to remind myself that it was a bad day\u2026but that doesn\u2019t make it a bad life\u2026.<\/p>\n
My life is blessed in so many ways.\u00a0 Sure, my face is going to be all jacked up as I wait for the goose-eggs to go away and the bruises to fade, and that really sucks!\u00a0 No way around it!\u00a0 But even as bummed out as I am about it tonight, I still can\u2019t deny that I have so much to be grateful for in my life.\u00a0 And I am just going to try and stay focused on that, because when bad days hit that is the only way to get through them\u2026focus on the positive.<\/p>\n
And, when possible, try to have a little laugh.\u00a0 My daughter found a bad day card at Hallmark once that she used to bring humor to a bad day her brother was having.\u00a0 It read:<\/p>\n
(on the front of the card)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cHang in there\u2026<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Sometimes life hands you lemons, but then you can make lemonade.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n (inside of card)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cOf course, sometimes life pulls down your pants, runs a power sander across your naked butt, then pours lemon juice on your raw abraded buttocks.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n In that case, a cool citrus drink wouldn\u2019t really help but, darn it\u2026you\u2019ve got to hang in there anyway!\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Oh how humor can help put everything back into perspective for us! Nothing heals the saddened soul like a good dose of laughter will!<\/p>\n When you find yourself feeling discouraged, find something to make you laugh. A funny quote, a good joke, a silly picture, a good comedy on TV or a funny movie. And then LAUGH!<\/p>\n \u201cWhen life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.\u201d<\/span><\/strong> ~Author Unknown<\/p>\n If things seem rough in your life right now or if you have been feeling discouraged\u2026.HANG IN THERE! And then find a reason to LAUGH! Oh, and don\u2019t forget to make some lemonade<\/p>\n Here is praying for a better, injury free day tomorrow!<\/p>\n ~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At least that is what I am telling myself tonight. Today was\u2026well\u2026.not the best day.\u00a0 I was over at our new home construction site meeting with plumbers, electricians, framers, etc doing a walk through when I turned right smack into a huge wood beam that was setup to temporarily hold up one of the walls.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[691,168,500,46,1677,1667,2003,550,2005,1673,1735,571,132,13,2004,2001,244,65,463,285,1110,2009,181,87,2006,64,2007,2008,153,1520,355,81,2002],"class_list":["post-3760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-accident","tag-adversity","tag-appreciation","tag-attitude","tag-bad","tag-bad-day","tag-bad-life","tag-blessed","tag-bruise","tag-construction","tag-cry","tag-focus","tag-fun","tag-funny","tag-good-life","tag-goose-egg","tag-grateful","tag-gratitude","tag-home","tag-humor","tag-injury","tag-joke","tag-laugh","tag-laughter","tag-lemonade","tag-life","tag-life-gives-you-lemons","tag-life-hands-you-lemons","tag-positive","tag-rain","tag-silly","tag-smile","tag-upside-down"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3760"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3763,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760\/revisions\/3763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}