It is another Monday. It starts as you crawl out of bed at 6 to get ready for work. When 8:00 rolls around the school day is well underway and you are already sick of screeching recorders. It is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
After school you head off to another school on the other side of town for a meeting that is a complete waste of time. Afterwards, you realize you forgot your horn so you rush home to grab it and head off to start the evenings private lessons. Then you push your way through a quick 30-minute practice session. You find yourself disappointed as you discover how out of shape your chops are. It is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
On the drive home you realize you are almost out of gas so you head to the gas station and spend half your paycheck filling the tank. Then it is off to the ATM to deposit your check from lessons so you can go buy groceries, because when you went to pack your lunch today you found out there was no food in the apartment. It is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
By now it is 7PM and you head home to an apartment that is completely trashed and must be cleaned. And because you are slightly OCD you won’t do anything until that is fixed. You start a load of dishes and remember you need to eat because you haven’t all day. You warm up a left over hamburger from the weekend and stare at it because you have no energy to actually eat it. It is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
By now it is almost 8 and all you want to do is crawl up in your bed and sleep until June, but the reality of that happening is nonexistent. So you reach into your backpack to pull out the stack of paperwork that is due tomorrow. You start to brainstorm how to redo all of your lesson plans because you use your iPod in all of your classes and it died this weekend. It is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
Before you dig into that, you write a ridiculous story for the two people that read your blog because you have to let the frustration out somehow. And all this time you keep thinking about Cold Tangerines, one of the books you are currently reading. Shauna Niequist reminded you of one of the areas you have been trying to focus on as she talked about living in the present instead of the future, living now instead of waiting for that big moment. And all you want to know is how you find the energy to do that when it is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
NOTE: The author couldn't care less about the verb tense, spelling or sentence structure of this story, so don't comment about it!
RYC -- I was a part of those wake up shows...in fact the first time I heard that song was at camp with Garrett. Small world.
ReplyDeleteI love the original - Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day! IN FACT - we wrote our own version of the story when I was in 2nd grade b/c it was our class favorite! I still have it!
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ReplyDeletethat was seriously one of my favorite books as a kid! but i'm sorry it was the reality for you. i hope things are looking up :)
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Wow, I've had so many days like this. I hate them. Thank God for the other moments that balance this out in the long run. Still, I know how much it sucks in the moment. Seriously, we are WAY too much alike! It's scary! Shauna did a great job last night. I may have to add her book to my ginorous "to read" pile . . .
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