Monday

There used to be this book I loved as a child, it was called "Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day". If you've never heard of it, buy it, if you've never read it, read it. Even as a grown woman I can still relate to this story because sometimes we get out of bed and what ensues is just a mess of wretched disaster. Luckily we get to go to bed at the end of it and wake up to a new day, hopefully better then the last.

I should have known that fainting in the shower was a good reason to go back to bed and avoid the rest of the day. Luckily I am a pro at fainting and know how to handle myself right before the lights go out and right after they come back on. I woke up in the corner of my bathtub after sliding down the wall. A bit scary being that I was alone and there is always the fear of hitting one's head on the porcelain walls or floor. Like I said, I'm a pro so I grabbed onto the shower door and slowly slid down the wall as I felt it happening. I'm sure I was only out for a few moments, that's usually how long it lasts. Now don't be alarmed, this sort of thing happens to me. It all started as a child when I fainted in my aunt's wedding. I was a flower girl standing at the alter when it happened. I went on to faint in high school during class, in college during a presentation, in the shower while studying abroad in Ireland, and my favorite, on the subway in Grand Central Station. Apparently it runs in my family. Check the purses of my mother, cousin, and aunts and you will be sure to find a large pack of gum, a snack (usually a granola bar) and perhaps a bottle of water. We go over like feathers in the wind. The rest of my morning was followed by crowded subways, an extremely creepy man forcing me to stick my nose so far into my book I couldn't actually see the words anymore, forgetting my card to get into the building that I work in, and of course being late for work after all that. The worst thing of all? I'm having a bad hair day. Go ahead, you can laugh. We all have days like this, and don't they seem to fall on a Monday so very often? I just fell asleep at my desk and so I decided to tell this little tale rather than waiting for work to show up.

So hopefully the rest of the day will be better then the beginning. Hopefully I'll at least be able to avoid fainting in some inappropriate place. That can only happen once a day right?

I laugh because sometimes if you don't laugh, you'll just cry.

So just laugh.