A terrible horrible no good very bad morning

This morning sucked. There it is...I said it in print. No sugar coating, no euphemisms. It just sucked. I was still tired from C3. Trena was running late for a breakfast meeting. One of the dogs decided to poop in the house. Then Megan spilled her cereal all over the table, chairs and floor. As soon as I had that cleaned up Lauren dropped her whole cup of milk. It splashed all over the floor, walls, table and chairs I had just cleaned. I lost it...I yelled angrily at both of them. They cried. Duh! I would have cried, too, if my dad yelled at me like that. Actually he did yell at me like that sometimes and I did cry. But that's not the point. The point is this morning sucked.

So after apologizing to my wife, children and dogs for being a tyrant I re-started my morning. It was more of an external attempt to patch up the damage I had wrought earlier. I really wasn't feeling it, but I was trying to portray it. After I dropped the girls off at school I drove to work. It was one of those drives that when you arrive at your destination you aren't even sure how you got there. Oh well. I got there.

I was reaching across the front seat for my day planner when I saw the cd. Tricia had burned it for me over a week ago. She brought it over one night with some cookies and a picture of me and Jimmy on a fishing trip with some other friends. It was a collection of some of Jimmy's favorite songs. Since I was off to a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad start to my day I decided to pop it in and see if it changed my mood. It did.

The first 3 songs are all Fresh Prince tunes, "Summer Time", "Switch", and "Gettin Jiggy Wid It". By the time "Jiggy" came on I was laughing hysterically. I was imagining Jimmy listening to his music on his way to work. How he could listen to rap music like that and be such a good guy I'll never know. I've always believed in the "garbage in, garbage out" theory. But he blew that right out of the water.

I won't listen every day, but an occasional dose of Fresh Prince, Fiddy Cent, P-Diddy, and R. Kelly might just be a good thing! It sure was this morning. Jimmy, I miss you buddy.