Judith Viorst is the author of the wonderful picture book, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. (The click feature on this photo does not work because I copied it off the Amazon site. If you clink on the link, it will take you directly to the correct site where you can get a better look at the book.) I used to read this book to my class to explain to children that sometimes we all have those terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days.Today we had one of those days.
Early this morning, Art found a large bag of boiled peanuts at the back of the fridge. "Whose peanuts are these?" he yelled from the other room.
"Oh nuts!" I meant to give those to my brother, but I forgot! No wonder he didn't thank me for them. (We decided to just eat them ourselves since they were now a week old. If I get a stomach ache, it'll be my fault. I'm hoping the light salt in it will keep us safe.)
We went shopping and found a great 20% off sale. The cashier at check out said only one of the items was on sale, but the others weren't. We left the store. However, it bothered me enough that we went back in and I checked all the sales signs again. Yup! There it was! It was all supposed to be on sale. Went to the customer service line and had to wait and wait and wait to get it corrected. I felt badly for the people behind us.
Arrived home at around 1:30 having missed lunch. My mother met us at the door, all upset and miserable. "The toilet broke!" she said. "I took off the tank cover to see what was wrong and the water shot out at me and got on everything. And where did you put my Fosamax pills? I can't find them anywhere."
"Hunh?" I never touch her Fosamax pills.
We bought these 2.5 gallon Nestle plastic bottles of water (for our disaster kit) before and one of them leaked and damaged the laminate flooring in the closet. I could not believe it, but we thought it was a fluke.
NOPE! When I checked the three we bought today after bringing the groceries in, I saw that two of the three containers had leaks!!! AGAIN! Doggone it! (I blame Art. I wanted to buy the smaller bottles, but he didn't want to pay the deposits on each bottle.)
Well... we did manage to quickly fix the toilet. The chain was broken and the hose had popped out of the thingamagig.
Art found the Fosamax. Mom had thrown it in the garbage can. She must have been distracted and threw it away instead of storing it back in the cupboard.
Tonight, I got on the scale and discovered I gained four pounds. Arrrrghhhh!
It's the yin and yang of things. The leak happened before we put it in the closet this time so it's taught us to store it in a plastic storage container from now on. The toilet is fixed, the medicine is found, I'd better exercise and I think I'll go to bed early tonight... ummm....after Hawaii 5-0 that is. It better not be a rerun again.
You really did have one of those awful days. Wonder why it is that everything seems to happen all at once like that. It happens to me too. I hope today is much better for you.
ReplyDeleteKay - you are a genuine telepathic home health nurse. I would have never thought to look for meds in the trash.
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Your title really scared me. I was relieved to get to the end of the post with all of you still alive and well.
ReplyDeleteBut isn't ingrate to get all of the terrible, horrible stuff over with in one day? That's better than dribbling it out over a full week.
ReplyDeleteI once threw my paycheck into the faculty room's waste basket. Guess I was so used to finding junk mail in my mail box that I assumed that was junk, too.
Our gallon emergency water containers leaked, too. Ken says the plastic isn't capable of holding together for years, so I guess periodically replacing them is a good idea.
That's "isn't it great." My iPad changes spellings without telling me!
ReplyDeleteIf we knew ahead of time, we could stay in bed on those days. Today may be one of those days for me as my water will be off the better part of the day. gggrrr
ReplyDeleteI should have stayed in bed !!!!!
Sure hope 5-0 wasn't a rerun. Now that everything is corrected or fixed, surely it will be a new show. You are on an upswing now.
ReplyDeleteSorry but I did get a chuckle out of your miseries knowing they were behind you. The same way I would laugh at a sitcom. Your day would have made a great episode.
I don't know that book, but it sounds like I should have had it in my 'teacher's tool bag'. It sounds like one of those days when you wanted to shout 'Stop the world I want to get off'. I hope tomorrow is better.
ReplyDeleteI hope you got all the "bad" for the week out of the way in that one day and that the rest of you week is smooth sailing.
ReplyDeleteI see where the day progressively got worse then started to improve! I hate days like that though.
ReplyDeleteHey, after a day like that you should have a terrific week ahead!! I'll never understand why it always seems that all the bad things have to happen at one time! You deal with things so well though, Kay, and I do think it helps to blog about it and get it all out of your head at one time and move on! Sending good wishes for a great rest of the week!!
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Wow, that's a whole lot of stuff packed together into one day. I agree it was better to get it all behind you in one fell swoop, though. Now you can go on to have the OTHER kind of day: a really great one! :-)
ReplyDeletetoo funny but your problems are all little ones compared to what they could be...like your new header-you are getting good at photoshop! smile tomorrow's another new day.
ReplyDeleteI love that story!
ReplyDeleteSorry you had a bad day. Today has to be better!
Here's hoping you have a better day today.
ReplyDelete:( I hope things are better tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteP.S. I bet the weight gain was from the peanuts. You will probably lose the four pounds very quickly.
I prefer to buy Kirkland bottled water. You should do that instead. It' cleaner.
ReplyDeleteIf you use jugs and pour TAP water into them, you will need to add bleach to disinfect the water. Will that affect the taste of the water?
It is this kind of everyday aggravation that drives me crazy,too.
ReplyDeleteMy husband cracked a rib and needs looking after now, but none of this gets on my nerves.
I think we're all rattled by recent events, and it is affecting our daily lives.
Oh, I hate days like that when nothing seems to go right. But, it sounds like you made it through okay and all is well. Thank goodness! Tomorrow is another day.
ReplyDelete"Momma said there'd be days like this, days like this, Momma said".
ReplyDeleteBut at least there was no permanent damage to any thing or any one.
Hope today was better.
I have had days like that Kay. Strange how that happens isn't it? Here's hoping for a better day for you tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteStrange how we all have those kinds of days sometimes. And your last blog post was full of good things! Like you said, yin and yang.
ReplyDeleteI hope everything is fine by now .Sorry Kay ,i have been too busy with home,work and the kids -so i tend to be irregular in blogger.I am trying my best to be back in few days as i miss it terribly .
ReplyDeleteThat's certainly a day to remember! Hopefully the week ends better than it began. You are very resilient people and brave too. Kay from Alberta told me, when we met near the windmills, that she enjoyed meeting you and your family. I can believe it! Have a great weekend.
ReplyDeleteWe have bad days occasionally to remind us that the good days are to be treasured;-)
ReplyDeleteI'm glad it all worked out well in the end. Four pounds? Nothing!!
Kay, I guess your day fits the title of the book. Don't you just hate days like this.
ReplyDeleteI understand after reading your post, Viorst is changing "Alexander's" to "Kay's"!!
ReplyDeleteSome days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed.
BTW, we're expecting snow tonight. UGH!!
My goodness what a day. I've had some of those days.
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