Learning to deal

Frankly, it’s been a pretty crappy couple of days we’ve had since Friday. Having gone through my share of difficult days, I’ve developed a very handy chart to help deal with the awfulness. They work like 37% of the time.

• Mildly irritating days you wish you can swat away like a pesky fly  ==>  nice long bath
• Things that don’t seem to go right days ==> extra large bubble tea
• Murphy’s Law is laying it on really thick days ==> hours of funny or die fun
• Probably the worst day of my life ==> tragic Korean melodramas to remind myself that other people do have it a lot worse and I should really stop whining

If you must know, this was of the DEAR GOD PUT ME OUT OF MY MISERY BEFORE I EAT MY OWN ARM variety, which basically kicks the behind of every other crappy day I’ve ever had. This is the kind of day that requires a whole new level of dealing.

1. Repeated viewings of the crazy nastyass honey badger. Because we can all learn a bit of tenacity from this little guy. After the 35th viewing, I’m all psyched up like “come on cobra, that the best you got? you better bring it because I’ll be having your ass for breakfast tomorrow.” FYI, you probably want to skip this step if you’re uncomfortable with um, strong language.

2. Repeated viewings of Rocky. I really don’t need to explain this, unless you’ve never watched Rocky, then my only explanation is that you really should watch it.

3. Repeated viewings of my kids doing the Sally Sally Lom Chiam Pas. Because it reminds me that these 2 little humans are worth more than anything else in the world and they make the crappiest of days much less crappy.

They say bad days don’t last forever but sometimes, it feels like it does. And when it feels that way, we just got to keep putting one foot in front of the other until those bad days get gradually better. Fun times.