getting stripped searched and other bad things

Well I just got off the phone with one of my girls, and I'm still laughing, because prior to our conversation I thought I was having a bad day...not so much.

I'll start with mine...so I decide to got to the gym this morning, and after yesterdays melancholy I needed it, upon getting inside, signing the Pea into daycare and claiming an elliptical machine for myself (those grey haired ladies can be vicious), I realize I have forgotten my ipod..damn...ok no biggie, I'll watch 'SportsCenter' with NO SOUND...now normally this wouldn't be a crime against humanity but apparently the closed caption typist was on vacation and had his/her pet monkey take over because you could barely understand anything that was written. There were spaces when there shouldn't have been, no spaces where there should have been and every other word was spelled wrong. I finally got so fed up I just watched the little timer on the machine.

Ok, fast forward awhile, I have a good workout I'm feelin' pretty good, I go get the Pea and head out, I'm gonna head across the street and get a cup of coffee. Coffee...coffee will make it all better.

I'm standing in line, ready to order, the Pea is pissed because I promised her we would go to the pool immediately upon leaving the gym and we didn't, and I realize I don't have my wallet...I purposely left it locked in the car when I went in the gym...shit, shit, shit...well by the time I get back to the car the Pea is out of control so I forgo the coffee and head straight to the club so we can go to the pool.

We get to the pool, and is my usual routine I pull a lounge chair into the baby pool area so I can get some sun while she plays, and OF COURSE, I misjudge the opening of the gate and jam my toe...OMG, it hurt so bad I went to my knees...so there I am cussing and writhing on the concrete, the Pea looking on perplexed and I think "oh boy, it's gonna be one of those days."

I manage to get settled and the Pea wants an ice pop...no problem, snack bar just opened, lets go. We get to the snack bar and wait the 15 MINUTES (which for her is like eternity) for the 2 people in front of us to order their pizzas, sandwiches, burgers, hot dogs and ice cream...The Pea could not have been more patient, she stood there like a little angel just waiting...finally it was our turn and I picked her up so she could see over the counter.

"Ice pop peez" she says
"I'm sorry, we don't have any...do you want an ice cream sandwich?"

You would have thought I ripped off her arm and dangled it in front of her...SCREAMS, not just crying, literally SCREAMS,

"ME WANT ICE POP, ICE POP PEEEEEEEZ!"
"Baby, they don't have any today, do you want something else?"
Of course not.
OMG, kill me now...all the "perfect mommies" are looking at me, what do I do? f*ck, f*ck, f*ck...

yeah, one of those days...

Well about an hour ago my girlfriend calls...she's in bum f*ck Washington after getting up at 3am and taking 3 different planes, and GUESS WHAT...she's a security breach! I was laughing out loud...she starts telling me this story about how she was trying to make her 3rd connection of the day, and they printed the wrong boarding pass and of course she didn't look at it and when she tried to board the airplane with it they denied her, and called TSA, and practically stripped searched her AT THE GATE, with all the people she was hoping to be flying with, and didn't believe her when she said it wasn't her fault and on and on and on...

Isn't it funny how someone else's misery can snap you right out of a funk? Sounds awful right? "Well at least I didn't get stripped searched in an airport!"

I have spent enough time overseas, in places most people wouldn't want to go, to realize my life is pretty f-ing great...I have seen war torn areas, places where women have NO rights, and places where the poverty I grew up in would be heaven...and yet I get in these funks where I'm feelin' sorry for myself...UCK, YUCK...knock it off!

So anyway, feeling better now (might have something to do with the 2 glasses of wine, I dunno) and I've decided that even if they don't have ice pops at the pool tomorrow, as long as I don't have to get up at 3am to get strip searched in an airport it will be a good day.