B...U...M...M...E...R!!!

It's that time of year, after the holidays, with a long winter ahead of us, that finds me wallowing a little more in the murk than I should.  So this little rant/pep talk of mine that follows, is just my way of seeing NOT only the negative side of "s%?&" happening this time of year, but also seeing the positive.  There is ALWAYS a positive side: you may just have to look for it a little harder. 

I woke up in the middle of the night last week, and knocked over a glass of water onto my library book. Unfortunately, I didn't realize it until the next morning. The front cover, back cover and many pages were water marked.  BUMMER!  I had to reimburse the library $27.00 for that book.  I was going to splurge on having the interior of Jiminy Cricket detailed. So much for that!  However, it was GOOD that I was able to donate the book to a senior citizen's complex, where some of the residents are voracious readers and are always looking for good novels.  There was the BRIGHT SIDE!

In my usual scurrying around one morning while tidying up, I accidentally dumped my portable speaker into a sink of dirty dish water.  Again, I didn't notice right away.  Well, I tried to dry it out in various ways, but I ended up throwing it into the recycling bin. BUMMER! So much for that! However, it was GOOD that I had just received my HST rebate cheque, (because of my single income :)) and was able to allocate some of those monies towards the purchase of a bigger speaker. There was the BRIGHT SIDE again!

On a beautiful snowshoeing hike through trails in the woods, I observed dog deposits... some ignored, and some bagged, but left behind. BUMMER! If you are going to bother to bag the bomb, then take it out with you, please.  However, the GOOD out of this was that I had lots of extra bags, so I played the Poop Fairy.  The trails were now less sullied, so there is a bright side here as well.

There are trails just for fat bikes and snowshoes, but a LOT of people won't, don't, or can't read. BUMMER!  It isn't easy to snowshoe where the trails are all bumpy and lumpy.  I took photos to post on hiking sites online, as a GOOD reminder to people not to walk on these trails. The bright side is that sometimes people just need to be reminded.  

Since Boxing Day, I have been super sick with a really bad sinus infection. BUMMER!  So much for getting all kinds of things accomplished over the school break.  However, it has been GOOD, because it forced me to sit. So sit I did, and binge watched a wonderful series on NetFlix called "Bonfires of Destiny" or "Le Bazar de la Charité" en français.  In French, with English subtitles, it is loosely based on a disastrous fire in Paris in 1897.  It is a superb showcase of "la Belle Époque" in France, with strong female characters, and as a period piece, is glorious!  I have wallowed here... but not in the murk!

A great way to end a week that wasn't such a bummer after all!!

PS: On the advice of a friend, who wanted to look at my speaker, I fished it out of the recycling bin. Lo and behold, it works!!