Posts Tagged ‘moods’

Ever notice how a gloomy mood can take over because of the silliest thing?

I try to post to this blog at least 3 times per week, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.  It’s been a little more difficult lately because I’ve had to take on more outside work to make ends meet, but I’ve still been able to pretty much keep up with my self-imposed schedule.  Until last Friday….

The last time I missed posting  I was dog-sitting at my sister’s house.  First of all, let me just say that I am not a dog person and she has three dogs who all live inside and insist on touching me with their horrible, gigantic, wet nostrils. I couldn’t correctly adjust the heating system so it was always freezing downstairs and burning up upstairs.  And when she said (as she was walking out the door) that there was nothing to eat in the house, she really meant it!  (Who asks someone to stay at their house for 4 days and doesn’t provide food?!)  Needless to say, I could hardly concentrate on checking Twitter, much less write a coherent blog post!

But I digress.  What happened last Friday?  On Thursday I had a lovely afternoon of lunch and shopping with my daughter.  It so happens that I needed a dress to wear to my niece’s wedding.  Now, I’ve been following a new eating/exercise plan lately and am feeling really fit, healthy, and energetic, and was pretty sure I might have dropped a dress size.

But no!!  Not only did I need the same size, it wasn’t even loose as though I was about to change sizes!  As the afternoon and evening wore on I felt crummier and crummier about this.  I’m not sure why.  Possibly because I was with my size 2 daughter (although I was never a size 2 even at birth!) and she saw my tummy which I wish could be transplanted on to my butt.

Anyway, by Friday night I was over it but I couldn’t believe that such a small thing could work into such a major disappointment in my mind!  Is it just me or do little things sometimes throw you a curve too?

Hopefully I’ll be able to keep things more in perspective in the future, at least for the next couple of weeks until I have to dog-sit again.  This time it will be my sister’s dogs and her teenage daughter……..