"It is good to be back!"

Hello, Hello out there! I am back. I have been sick for the past 5 days. Boy, I haven't been sick like this in over two years. It is good to be back. I have had a crazy, yet awesome day. I am so excited, I have to tell you why. First of all I want to start by telling you about my day. I am still a little under the weather, but since me and my babies (my dogs) have been cooped up for days I decided to take my babies to the dog park. This was the first time in doing so, usually I take them for a walk, but I thought the less exercise would be best, being still a little sick and all. So, what happened? It was a disaster! Trying to get two large dogs into a small truck, crazy! What was I thinking? Then I did not know exactly where the dog park was so I asked this lady walking her dog and she said "follow me it is right over there." We walked and walked and you got it and walked. When I got there it looked great, it was cloudy and cold, but because it hadn't rained in awhile, I thought it looked fine. Looks can be deceiving! Mud, yes in the middle of the dog park was mud and you can imagine how that turned out. So when I got back, my babies where clean because the mud was all over the inside of my car. I figured oh, well and off to Dos Coyotes I went with my book in hand. My eyes got tired, do to still being congested, so I left earlier than usual. When I got home, I had to start the dreaded cleaning of the kitchen, and I noticed as soon as I let my littlest baby out of his cage (Bird named gringo) he immediately flew off his cage, his cage was infested with ants, they were everywhere. It took about an hour cleaning everything up. Crazy, you should of seen me, there is a huge thick plastic mat for the floor under his cage, trying to bend that thing to take it outside was a challenge to say the least, the bird flew down the hall I kept dropping it and things flew across the room, Christmas tree ornaments, candles, when I got it outside it boomeranged from my hands and hit all the utensils from the barbecue (don't worry honey, I pick them up) and to top it off I got soaking wet from the hose, what a sight. But something was different. I was different, in the past I would have been complaining, whining and bitching how my day was ruined, so on and so on, but no today. I was happy, I put on my music and I did not let anything ruin my day. It was amazing! I mean, I wasn't stressed, not one once of complaining in my head, I was actually humming to my music. WOW! For me this was truly awesome. Then when I was almost done with drying off the birdcage, it dawned on me that I was happy, in a great mood. What was weird was I did not have to try to convince myself not to let it get to me, it just happened on it's own. I thought to myself, Lauren everything in your life is perfect and where it should be, even when shit happens! You are OK, better than OK !Yes, how cool is that!
Lauren