Slightly Off-Balance

Do you ever feel like:

• Murphy (as in Murphy’s Law) is a big mean guy swinging a heavy bat – usually at your face or gut?
• The moment you get off the rollercoaster of life, you step onto a merry-go-round?
• Just when you get on a good healthy eating and fitness kick, you get sick, injured or somebody sends you a box of chocolates?
• You can have a quiet work week and then everything hits on Friday?
• Nobody drops by unannounced when your home is immaculate and you are put together, but your new neighbor drops by the day you forego getting dressed to re-organize and deep clean your house.
• The simplest of mistakes can have the biggest impact?
• You forget the one thing at the grocery store that has no substitute?
• Your kids only sleep in when you’re already awake?
• The movie you’ve been dying to see was on TV the previous night?
• The 50% off Border coupon expired yesterday?

I had a week like this.  But you know what?  That Murphy guy is nothing but a bully.  I turned on him, stole his bat and beat his ironic ass – we say bottom in this house- into the ground.  I have been in pajamas (figuratively and literally) all week, just trying to survive.  But now, the sun is shining, I have taken a full shower (with a razor and everything) and am re-claiming my happy life!

They say that what goes up must come down.  But what comes down and breaks, can be fixed with superglue and a martini!

What are your brushes with Murphy’s Law?  How do you bounce back?