Yesterday I was having a crappy day for no reason. I woke up, and the day was already crappy despite the tulips blooming and nobody barfing and the car out of the shop and basically everything going just fine. But there was no more Easter candy, and when I woke up I thought I was waking up at about 2:00 in the morning but in fact it was 5 minutes before I had to get up and yet I still fell back to sleep so I woke up feeling all weird and sleep-interrupted, and furthermore I’ve been reading more volumes of the Y: The Last Man series so I’d been having bad dreams about being trapped in a bathroom with killers outside, and as soon as I woke up I remembered I’d forgotten to thaw muffins and ANYway it wasn’t all that bad a day and yet it WAS.
I poked around for awhile trying to fix it. Good breakfast. Favorite lavender-vanilla conditioner and body wash. Extra coffee. Sitting and reading more Y: The Last Man instead of getting going on the laundry. Still I remained cranky and wan.
Then I remembered what I hardly ever seem to remember on the days that are crappy because I am feeling too crappy to think of things that would make me feel better: I have Crappy Day Presents. And at first I tried to talk myself out of opening one, because I didn’t have a good reason for having a crappy day, and also because a characteristic of this kind of crappy day is a certain sullenness and resistance toward improving it—as if being able to improve it with a present would mean it hadn’t REALLY been a crappy day. I shook that right off.
And I also remembered that when I wrote about Crappy Day Presents before, some of you asked for follow-ups to give you more ideas for sending your own CDP boxes, so…look what Mean Living (more of a Twitter girl these days AHEM languishing blog) sent me:
THINGS ARE LOOKING UP ALREADY
I should have waited for good lighting to take the pictures, but I knew those mini Cadbury Eggs were not going to make it to the good lighting (they are half-gone as I write this post) so you get one with too much flash, and one dark and not completely in focus.
Can you believe that cross-stitch? Mean Living is all “Please excuse all the flaws” and I was all “OMG you MADE this? out of, like, THREAD??” Look at the BIRDY. Look at the SWEET LITTLE FLOWERS, which gradually change from darker to lighter as the row goes along. And do you see what it says? “TODAY’S GOAL: Do not go slap out of my mind.” And the thread it’s written in MATCHES MY BLOG. I think I should put it by the coffee pot. Or next to my alarm clock.
That present fit your day perfectly! Hope your dst is looking up.
This seems like the best crappy day present ever. Mean Living, that was so thoughtful and AWESOME!!
Omg is that cute and non-crappy!!!
Oh, I love it!! Hope your day improved!!
Love it!
How freaking awesome is that? I had a crappy day on Tuesday for no good reason. I’m going to look into this crappy-day present thing.
That is excellent. I think I need to get myself some crappy day presents.
ooooo lovely cross stitch. I hope today is better.
I had a similar day yesterday, and ventured to my husband that perhaps it was PMS, to which he responded that he didn’t believe that was real. In less than a minute of my raving I had him retract his statement, but still: things don’t help a crappy day.
I love this and I love your Crappy Day Present reports. It’s SUCH a fun idea!
Sometimes we just wake up in a mood, and the rest of the day is shot to hell. CDP sounds like a great idea! Maybe I should make myself some.
There must have been something in the air yesterday because I, too, had a Crappy Day yesterday. They day started with my 8yo son crying for 20 minutes because he had to go to school. This from the kid who is homeschooled and only goes to his parent partnership classes 2 days a week. Arrgh! Instead of going running, which I should have done, I had more coffee & buttery toast and surfed the interwebs. Then I go myself dressed & went to the Mecca of Retail Therapy (aka Target). And even though they *still* do not have the DS game I have a rain check for, and the store is being remodeled/reorganized and is a total wreck, I still managed some lovely retail therapy which left me feeling a bit better. Then I picked up my son from school and went and got ice cream, as further Crappy Day therapy. Hopefully it’s all out of my system today, because frankly, yesterday sucked.
I think YOUR present improved the crappy day I am currently having!
As you know, I saw a preview of this, and I’ve been WAITING for you to see it too! I thought it was SO PERFECT for you. Way to go, @meanliving!!
Aw, shucks. I’m so relieved that you like it!
And, oh, the blog. Poor thing. What’s worse than being shallow and having a self-absorbed and boring blog? Never touching it again because twitter (even MORE shallow) serves just as effectively. (sigh)
Best cross-stitch EVER.
Yay for Crappy Day Presents =)!
(hee, hee, word verification: testi)
Great crappy day presents. Chocolate always makes a day go better and that cross stitch is adorable.
This is why I keep Emergency Chocolate in my desk at work. No, really. http://amzn.to/jOZB33
It doesn’t help on the weekends, though.
I am taking up cross stitching NOW. I’m not even kidding. It makes me SO HAPPY to think about hanging that on the wall.
The rate I’m going with my 3-year-old, I’d have a 365 day supply of crappy day presents.
I love your crappy day presents. I want to start a movement to make me not afraid of my mailbox. I need love in my mailbox. similar to crappy day presents kinda.
love your blog Swistle. really. have missed reading it. xo
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Possibly the most perfect cross stitch I have ever seen!