need a blue sky holiday?

You had a bad day, the camera don't lie
You're coming back down and you really don't mind
You had a bad day
You had a bad day
Well you need a blue sky holiday
The point is they laugh at what you say
And I don't need no carryin' on
You had a bad day, you're taking one down
You sing a sad song just to turn it around
(From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/d/daniel-powter-lyrics/bad-day-lyrics.html)

Good Morning...........Weekend!

I am so happy for a sleep in Saturday morning...I can't even begin to tell you.  Yesterday which was Friday and usually one of my favorite work days of the week, started off wrong.  I was out of bed getting ready for work and I get a text saying I'd had a call-in.  I hear myself mutter under my breath, "well sh**t, cause I knew someone was already on vacation..."  I go to work which went from bad to worse....half the staff were missing from one area.  Yeah--what a great way to start a day...but then quickly decided to make the best of it.  It was a long day but enjoyable and went much better than expected.  At my usual get off work time, I hear the glorious tick of 330 pm and suddenly in my head, I hear the shout of TGIF....and the Hallelujah Chorus begins to play....

I head out the door skipping a bit ready to go get my ab workout over with my trainer and begin my weekend.  I get to my ghetto van which looks a bit lop sided--and suddenly I realize---dammit to hell--my tire is completely flat.  I call Big Daddy, the owner of our AAA card, who did not have is phone with him (which is the usual case, cause he really doesn't believe in cell phones or any phones for that matter).  I contact off color son in hopes that he will answer his.  He was out with Simba his new dog, picking up medication for kennel cough and said to call him if i needed.  I did try a Big Daddy trick of the trade---fix a flat---if a car can't be fixed with coolant or fix-o-flat--well then Big Daddy can't fix it.  I walked to the local convenient store and purchased a can of fix-o-flat and a large diet drink--I mean a girl does deserve a big Gulp with ice--on a day from hell, don't you agree?   I sent my trainer a text with some rather explicit language about my dilemma, canceling my workout and then set to use the Big Daddy magic trick---I used a whole can of fix-o-flat and nothing...no rise in the tire, no movement.  I call off-color son and I wait--enjoying the wonder of cold ice and a soft drink on a rare warm fall day. Life really isn't that bad, I thought.

Off-color son arrives with big yellow puppy in the shotgun position....I get in the back and am immediately covered with yellow dog slobber.  Off color son drove behind the ghetto van and said, "hum, see all those radical bumper stickers....I do believe I know why your tire is flat."   We had a great talk in the car  about the little things as he drove me home.  It is now dark and I immediately get in my pajama's, get some chili big daddy has cooked and sit down to watch the news or as it is called in off color house---government propaganda--on the TV.  I switch on the TV, sit down and poof!!!!

The TV in our living room darkens and goes out.  "Dammit to hell again!"  I get up, push some buttons and hit some remotes and nothing.  Seems it is dead.  I go downstairs to the :"love shack"....light a bunch of candles and sit down for the evening with me, myself and I.   It didn't take very long before I found myself lulled to sleep watching the world news--how sad is that?
This morning, I am sitting here in the tire store--having to purchase four new tires.  After we are finished here, I am off to purchase a new Television for our living room--what an expensive weekend!!!!
truth is...
I have a whole lot to be quite thankful for....
we have the money for once to purchase the tires for the ghetto van---so off color daughter--next month when you inherit the ghetto van you will have new wheels. ( I am looking for a new ride!!!)  We can look for a new TV but even if we don't find one--we have three others in the house and two small ones in the garage.
And if I sounded like I was complaining about work in the beginning of this post
I am not...
I am thankful to have a job,
thankful that most days my employees are healthy enough to be present
and
thankful for the good health insurance and for the wage the job provides.
Blue sky holiday...
absolutely..
even on days when 
we have the bad days...
if we look
if we try..
we can find glimmers of things to be thankful for...
that's what I'm trying to do anyway.

I hope you too are having a Blue sky holiday kind of weekend...
the weather is warm in Ky
and
the tire place has free wi-fi..so I'm happy.
Blue skies...
absolutely...
absolutely.

Have a wonderful weekend....
find the blue in your sky
and
Have a good day!!!!

Blessings..
The radical rambler....