So, I know that I have been MIA in the bloggersphere for a bit, and to be honest I have no excuses. Zero. Zip. Nada. I have just been a supremely lazy blogger...it's just that every time I have sat down in front of my computer screen and attempted to write up a new post I give up about 2 sentences in and recite my mantra of "I'll finish it up later." Well as you may have noticed later in Megan speak obviously means "I'll finish it up in two months, give or take a week." But tonight as I was laying on my couch recouping from a seriously intense leg workout(like the kind that causes your legs to shake and burn when sitting down to use the potty intense), my normal chipper, happy, it's all good mood slowly started to transform into the most lame pity party, tear rolling, nose sniffling kind of event I have had in quite some time. As I was sitting there feeling sorry for myself and having my "woe is me, when is it going to be my turn moment" a book that I read to my class at the beginning of the year came to mind. Totes random(yes I just used totes...I have lost my ever loving mind this evening) I know, but strangely enough the words of this children's book made me feel better, made me feel ok even.
The title of the book is Today I feel Silly, and Other Moods that Make My Day. It was written by Jamie Lee Curtis...the Jamie Lee Curtis, I know right, surprisingly she is a pretty good children's book author. Anywho, basically the long and short of the book is that it is a book about all the feelings that a little girl feels and the things that cause her to have those feelings. The big lesson to be learned in the end is that we all have many different kinds of feelings everyday, sometimes they are feelings like happiness and joy. Other times they are feelings of anger and rage. Still other times they are feelings of sadness, frustration, and desperation. Those were my feelings this evening...
But I remembered the lesson that Mrs. Curtis was so skillfully presenting...we have many feelings, for many different reasons, you can't help how you feel, and it's ok to feel that way....it's ok...really...pity parties are ok....as long as you don't hang out there too long.
So friends, readers, fellow bloggers: My name is Megan, and today I feel sad, defeated, and frustrated...but I know that tomorrow holds a new set of feelings and I know that I will be ok. Fantastic even.
