Life Ache

This weekend my 3 year old asked me if my was knee was aching. I was having what I call a Life Ache day and I told him "no honey mommy's life aches". He gave me the only look he could give when he had no idea what I was talking about doesn't want to admit it. You know that look. It's the one students and parents give when they don't want to admit that what you said just went right over their heads. Like trying to explain heaven to bears. I just gave him a hug and told him mommy would be all right she was just in a no good very bad mood and his precious self went off to do what 3 year old boys do best...destroy things and make lots of noise.
Normally I'm a pretty optimistic person. It takes quite a bit to get me down and keep me there and when I have a negative "episode" I refer to them as Life Aches. Life Aches suck both literally and figuratively. What is a Life Ache? A Life Ache is when you have one of those days that try as you might you just can't come up with anything that's worth living. It's one of those days when the weather sucks, your significant other is not so significant anymore, you kids are crowding your pity party with demands, there's nothing on t.v., all your friends are busy, and the whole day just seems to be sucking the joy and optimism right out of you. THAT'S a Life Ache..your whole life just HURTS! I hate Life Ache's with a passion..I feel like such a worthless, guilty slob for even having them. I get really angry too...like intellectually I know this is a colossal waste of time and there is nothing I hate more than wasted time and effort. If I had to choose a catch phrase for my life it would be "work smarter not harder". So yeah Life Aches blow big time and my whole weekend was totally shot I did not accomplish one thing that I had on my list and now I feel like blah for Monday. The only solution I've found for life aches is humor and grit. Yes humor read something funny, watch something funny, hang out with a funny person that makes you laugh, and grit. I say grit because when all else fails organizing something or cleaning something doing some PRODUCTIVE will often times help cure a Life Ache. If those two things don't work I will just give in to the crippling pain and throw myself a pity party for a day and then I'm usually over it.
Today I'm over the pity party...I have a renewed sense of purpose and the Life Ache is like a bad virus that has finally worked itself out of my system. I would say "Bring on the week I'm ready" but that would be a lie..like any kind of illness it's going to be one step one day at a time to reclaim my lost ground. I'm up to the challenge though and looking forward to tonight's evening playgroup at the learning center...good friends and cute kids are always a good cure for Life Aches!