So we're at Bethany Beach, and everyone's in the water, leaving me with my beautiful girl. It's a beautiful day, and I finally get to relax, and I'm thinking This is It! But then a fly lands on my foot and bites me.
I didn't even know flies did that. Apparently anything is possible in Delaware.
So I start complaining to myself, and I'm thinking maybe I should go back to the room, and why am I on the beach, getting beaten by flies when I should be in the water? Why do I always have to be the one getting attacked by killer flies? Why? I should have stayed home, really!
And I know, even while all this happens, that not everyone would have reacted in the same way.
I'm aware of my half-empty-glass problem, but there's not much I can do about it.
On the way back home, I'm driving over the Bay Bridge. Everyone is asleep in the car. I'm thinking back at a week of Grotto's gelato, swimming pools, sand castles, beer, and sun, and I take a quick look at my beautiful sleeping family, and I know that in the future this week will be The Good Ol' Days. I know that I have no reason to complain. I have no right to complain. About anything.
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"I know that in the future this will be the good ol' days"
Very wise words, and ones I need to remind myself of too
Awesome title wish I had thought of that. Very punny.
Sometimes a fly bite is just a fly bite you know not a reflection on the world.
I totally relate. I've spent most of the weekend wallowing. I need to get my head straight.
Dan, it's pretty much a constant battle with me.
SJ, I just know I'll get a bunch of misspelling Googlers from that pun.
Shelli, like in A Good Man is Hard to Find, we need people to shoot us once a day.
I do this all the time and beat myself up for it too. I know that a moment I'm experiencing will be a good memory, a perfect memory in the future and am totally unable to live in it fully. Or are we really living it because we realize it?
It could be nice to be able to enjoy something 100% (whether you experience a perfect day or not). But I guess enjoying life while complaining about inconvenient bullshit is still better than being depressed and having to fight demons all day.
OH THE HAIR!!!! It's in this post too!!!! When are you bringing her to Houston so I can run my hand over that head?!?! So cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As for the rest of it, I do a fair bit of unnecessary complaint too. For me it helps to get more sleep. Seriously. The less I sleep, the more I complain. It probably looks like one of those graphs from math or science class.
Sorry about the fly bite. :-( :-( :-( But I'm glad you were able to enjoy the trip, even if it was in retrospect. :-)
This is just a test! If this one needs approval too, I can stop mourning the loss of my other response I think...
I didn't even know you could do that to just an individual post. Then again, I don't know how you did the google video either.
Jill, she still has that hair now, a month later. But it's starting to follow the law of gravity. It's a shame. I'm going to miss it...
And we'll go to Texas one day. We have relatives there! (In Austin) (We'll meet in Austin!) (Is it far? Texas isn't that big, is it?)
How dare you test me! I don't know if it's on the regular Blogger settings or if it's just on Blogger in Draft, but in the Settings section, there's a Comment moderation section, where you can say you want comments moderated if they're left for a post older than (any number) days. I set mine to 24 for no reason. But I had a lot of spam on old posts, and that completely got rid of that.
And to do a screen-capture video, you can go to Screenr.com. It's very easy. I doubt anyone will put anything better than Google telling him he's the cutest thing on the planet, though.
Austin is about three and a half hours - not too bad!!!!! And I had no idea about the comment thing! I was just like, "what happened?!?!?" :-) Happy new year!
I HATE those flies...the green headed ones...they are terrible in LBI.
Jill, Happy New Year! Earth doesn't look a day older than 5771!
JK, so I wasn't imagining it after all... I couldn't believe it at first. Since when are flies so aggressive? They fly around, eat dog poop, and get crashed. I thought both sides agreed to that.
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