Thursday, November 12, 2009

Mallie and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day...



You heard it here first my friends. Today fit into the THNGVB (short for: terrible, horrible, no good, very bad) category. This particular category was created when I was about 7 and my mom read me a book with a very similar title. I adored it. After that, when I'd have 'one of those days', my mom would say something about it being terrible, horrible, no good and very bad. By the end she could always get me to giggle about it. Mostly just using all of those adjectives to describe one day makes me giggle. Anyway, let's fast forward about 17 years to today. I will not give you all the sordid details that contributed to my THNGVB day, but here's a few highlights: having to pay for parking, locking my keys in my car and being stuck in the rain, grouchy people, a 7ft tall basketball player that is positive that President Obama wants to nuke us all but has NO interest in actually learning what I'm being paid to teach him, wet feet, MATH. But see, this is the thing. At the end of my favorite bad day book a couple of good things happen, so I would be remiss if I didn't add those to my story as well: a room full of 4th graders and one overworked 4th grade teacher that were overjoyed to see me, 4 more hours a week at the tutoring center, Becky giving me a full bag of M&Ms after locking my keys in my car, the same overworked 4th grade teacher driving up to the stadium in the rain to bring me my spare key and coming home knowing that my homework was practically done so I could enjoy 30 Rock. I guess every gray cloud has a silver lining.

2 comments:

Amy said...

:) I'm glad you found the silver lining and I hope tomorrow is much much better.

Liz said...

today is going to be way better than yesterday! you're going to rock the colonial america paper, woo!

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