Yesterday was a tough day for the Huh? family. It started with a bad walk with Nande and ended with a little baby boy who refused to fall asleep and stay asleep and both P's and my nerves were a little frayed by bedtime, which had been moved up a couple of hours just to end the day and move on to today.
I should have known today would be a better and different day when I had a vivid dream just before waking up, ten minutes before the alarm thankyouverymuch!
The dream was bizarre but kind of funny. We were having a party in the house in Vermont that I grew up in but I didn't really know anyone and things went from strange to freakin' bizarre quickly. After touring the house a couple of times and realizing that I didn't know anyone in the house, I went to my room for a moment.
And I found a little old Japanese man laying on my bed with six or seven models draped around him, next to the wall were two teenagers having sex and all the people on the bed were buck naked. And the models? The models were drizzling chocolate sauce on the little Asian man. This was all happening on my bed and I had no idea who any of them were so I, naturally, freaked.
I threw them all out, although I did tell two of the models they could stay if they wanted to but they apparently belonged to the Asian man so they all went with him.
I went downstairs and happened to look into the mudroom/laundry and it was stuffed full of passed out naked people, some had even fallen asleep mid-coitus! I kicked them all out and then realized just how thoroughly trashed the house was, there was crap everywhere (no not really poo), even down the stairs into the basement.
Next thing I knew, my mother, as a teenager, was standing on those stairs and vacuuming the floor below with like a 16 foot extension on the vacuum. And then I woke up, sweaty and confused. And no, my mom wasn't naked, she was wearing a very nice little black party dress.
So yeah, that's how the day began. I got Nande and we headed out for a walk, hopefully better than yesterdays and I came up with a pretty good idea.
The walk, by the way, was superb. Nande behaved very well and we ran into one of our friends walking her dog so that made it all the better.
My idea for the today is to not allow yourself to become angry or irritated. Or at the very least, to not allow any outward sign of irritation. You get cut off in traffic, what-evah! You accidentally spill coffee in your lap, gee that's nice and warm! You ram your knee into your conference table? Hey, it could be worse, you could have no legs at all.
Taking a lesson from Zen Buddhist, Thich Nhat Hahn, if you don't like how you are seeing the world, change the channel. Its as simple as that.
And hey? How about some new pics to share to start the day even righter?
Happy Dad and Baby Boy
Happy Nande by Bed
Nande in Escape
Nande Pensive
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