Your mama warned you there'd be days like these

I don't know about you folks, but it sure has been one of those days for me.

Not the fun, nostalgic "those were the days" type, or even the blase, indifferent "meh, just one of those days" kind of day.

No my friends. It was one of THOSE days.

One of those days in which a person is hard-pressed to keep hold of their sanity-- let alone their sense of humor.

Someone experiencing one of these days also may or may not lose sight of the fact that the world is probably not devoting all of its energy to the sole task of ruining one’s life just for kicks and giggles.

(Clearly, there’s a reason the world is out to get you. Murder. Tax evasion. Failure to return a chain letter in 4th grade. Things of that nature, I’m sure).

What contributes to one of THOSE days, you ask? Here are a few examples that are, of course, completely fictional and certainly did not happen to me today:

• Mondays. Fairly self-explanatory.
• Also, the Word of the Day email was totally lame today. Strike 2.
• Facing an extra-long workday. On a Monday.
• Granted, it’s because you have to make up hours for the days you’ll be on vacation, but let’s not split hairs here people. Focus.

• Sitting through an hour-long meeting where the main item on the agenda is to inform you and your boss that you’re doing pretty much everything wrong.
• Tragically, everyone in the room appears to be suffering from amnesia, as they all forget that they're the ones who taught you how to complete the project.
• Having to stop what you’re doing to redo work you thought you’d finally finished a week ago
• Thankfully your computer breaks up the monotony by freezing while you're in the middle of an important task.
• You have a minor coronary panic attack but finally get the computer unstuck… when it decides to update and restart immediately, causing you to lose everything you’d accomplished over the last 45 minutes
• WHY is auto-save NOT a standard feature? And we’re supposed to believe that Bill Gates is a genius. Psh.
• Speaking of geniuses: you meet with your boss several times and walk around the office for 4.5 hours without realizing that your zipper is undone.  And you’re wearing bright orange underwear.
• Awesome.

Everyone has days like these, right? Right?!?

Are things like this relatively minor in the grand scheme of things? Yes. Could life be much, much worse? Yes. Will we survive? Yes. Should we be thankful for all the great things we do have? Yes.

But when you're in the midst of it, it feels like there's no way out of the universe's diabolical plot to make you miserable.

Hopefully you have friends/family like mine who will listen to you complain for a little bit and end up making you smile, feel a bit better, and help you get on with your life.  (And, hello, if you're reading this I'm assuming we're good enough friends to be GChat contacts... which is quite the exclusive list. I'm here for ya buddy!)

But for those days when even a hug and all the complaining in the world just aren't cutting it, I leave you this video:




If watching Phoebe try to play the guitar with her teeth doesn't make you at least crack a smile... it's time to call a professional.