the shitty day
6 May 2009 - 11:00pm — creativevoyage
I'm admiring my cat who is asleep on my desk on a pile of books. I know she has bad days - days when other cats sit on her windowsill or walk across her garden and she sits and shouts at them loudly enough to wake me if sleeping. Anyway Waitrose food, ear rubs and a nap seem to make her all better.
Today I've had to share a desk with a colleage at work, discovered I've been underpaid for April, had dental treatment and the news that my boyfriend has married some floozy in Italy. An All Around Shitty Day.
To countact this I have:-
got the lodger to buy me emergency green & blacks Almond Chocolate
drunk coffee
twittered
made dinner
I was going to back cupcakes and knit but somehow the evening is gone.
I'd be interested in other peoples shitty day rescue plans
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shitty days
..when I'm having a bad day, I try to remember that it is temporary - that this too shall pass - and that life is a mixture of good, middling and bad days! not sure that it will help, but also that manure is put on a garden to make it grow, and something beautiful in a Tao sort of way can come from crap. Hope you wake up to a better day tomorrow. Caireen x
tempoary shitty days
Yes I think remembering that this too will pass is a help. I actually invited two people to dinner and find that being in company I like puts a lid on shittyness - its able to fester mcuh more on my own. Thinking back on my shitty day I wonder if I'd done something like knitting something simple sort of soothingly creative that would have been better for my spirit.
I'm not very good at shitty
I'm not very good at shitty day rescue plans. Mainly I rely on the fact that I know I'll feel much better when I wake up in the morning.
A soak in a hot bath, or a brisk walk sometimes do it for me. Another thing I do, but shouldn't, is play mindless games on the computer - it occupies me for a while, but then I go to bed realising I have not only had a shitty day but also haven't accomplished anything.