leslieism

The following may or may not be a true story based on factual events.

Yesterday morning I woke up with a lot on my mind, but the most important thought…..no matter what, life is good.  I sat down at my computer and logged into facebook, checking in first with my gratuity challenge group.  A woman in the group had posted a picture that said, “I will be grateful for this day”…..oh how I needed to see that.  I snagged that gem and re-posted it onto my homepage…inhaling deep breaths of gratuity.

Well, my deep gratuity breaths shortly turned into a soulful, “oh shit” sigh, as my computer powered down….along with anything else in my apartment that was alive due to a source we call “electricity”.

M’kay, first of all, did this make you laugh or at the very least smile?  I hope so, and if not, I highly suggest getting your serious meter checked out.  I laughed because it’s hilarious!  I’m sitting there, in my child size, lime green, Ikea chair….tired and stressed out, but trying to have thoughts only concerning rainbows and cake….and out goes the power because I owe the power lord some money.

After I laughed, I wanted to get mad….but at who?  Damn it!  Me.  I am ultimately the only reason I am now camping.  Oh sure, I could give a few good excuses, sort of, but not really.  Out of all my current troublesome concerns, a $75 power bill should have been crossed off my list first.  Hard to cross stuff off an invisible to-do list.

Ridiculous.  The process of getting power turned back on is ridiculous….and I had to pay a deposit that was twice as much as the bill I ignored.  Silver-ish lining?  I got a brand new account opened with my new/old name, ‘McCue’.  I also learned a lesson.

When life hands you lemons, make lemonade and make that shit quick!  Or shoot, if you are given an overabundance of lemons, find other uses for them.  Cuticle cure…zit fix…kill bacteria in open wounds?  I am no doctor, so I really can’t be sure if lemon juice is a good idea for curing cuticles.

What I now know is that I cannot pile my lemons into a basket and shove that basket in the back of the pantry until I’m ready to attempt making lemonade.  Lemons get mouldy and fruit flies will call them home.

Sometimes it’s okay to set problems aside…for awhile.  Sometimes it’s okay to let things work themselves out.  Sometimes however, it makes the smallest of problems grow rather large.  Sometimes it also becomes a habit, a “storing problems” habit and when it comes time to face them…you have no idea where to start.  Good news?  You/I can start wherever and whenever…one thing at a time.  At any point in our lives, or days for that matter, we can choose to start over and make things different.

Now, if this were a true story, my daughter may or may not have said the following while we drove up my parents bumpy, dirt road causing our favorite song to start skipping…….”Aww the power company?”.  I laughed, “No honey, the power company does not control the radio in our car”……..we had a good laugh together.

I sure am grateful for my daughter, our love and our laughter, and of course…electricity…what a splendid invention.