{"id":215,"date":"2018-03-22T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/some-days-are-like-that\/"},"modified":"2020-10-26T23:18:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T23:18:25","slug":"some-days-are-like-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/some-days-are-like-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Days Are Like That"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It is snowing. Again. This is the fourth winter storm this month.<\/p>\n

My car needed a brake job. Another expense.<\/p>\n

The book I ordered got lost in the mail but the packaging arrived right on time. Yes, the post office delivered a completely empty plastic bag to my mailbox.<\/p>\n

I ordered a shirt online. The company sent me the wrong one.<\/p>\n

I made a new recipe and everyone, including me, hated it.<\/p>\n

Our mailbox got knocked down by the snowplows.<\/p>\n

I have a horribly drippy cold.<\/p>\n

Did you ever read\u00a0Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day<\/i>? My son loved it when he was little and we read it over and over. Alexander went to sleep with gum in his mouth and woke up with gum in his hair and the day just went downhill from there. But, in the end, he concludes with his mother’s help that “some days are like that.”<\/p>\n

Well, some days are.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, new days dawn and I woke up to emails promising to send me a new shirt and a new book. The brake job wasn’t as expensive as we feared. And horrible drippy colds do provide plenty of time to huddle on the couch and read. Since I am rarely sick, apart from migraines, my family has been charmingly helpful. They have offered me food and heating pads and willingly done chores I usually have to insist on. It has been strangely peaceful.<\/p>\n

I read an Agatha Christie today. Miss Marple and a few good murders were just what I was in the mood for. I also read Dear Mrs. Bird<\/i>* by AJ Pearce. It was light and fluffy which was exactly what I needed. Emmeline has ambitions to be a wartime journalist but somehow ends up working on the advice column of a women’s magazine instead. She gets herself into all kinds of scrapes while WWII rages around her in London.\u00a0 The resolution was predictable but the book was cute. It is not high literature\u00a0but I did enjoy it.<\/p>\n

Right now, I am reading These Wonderful Rumours!<\/i>\u00a0by May Smith. My previous book put me in the mood for wartime reading so this will be perfect. I love wartime diaries and this comes highly recommended.<\/p>\n

Who knows what tomorrow will bring. My cold is slightly less drippy. The snow started later than it was supposed to so now it is predicted to continue later into the morning tomorrow. That could totally mess up my schedule since tomorrow is one of my days in Boston. We shall see.<\/p>\n

Another day on the couch surrounded by books is not a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea.<\/p>\n

*Provided by the publisher through NetGalley. All opinions of cuteness and fluffiness completely my own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is snowing. Again. This is the fourth winter storm this month. My car needed a brake job. Another expense. The book I ordered got lost in the mail but the packaging arrived right on time. Yes, the post office delivered a completely empty plastic bag to my mailbox. I ordered a shirt online. The company sent me the wrong one. I made a new recipe and everyone, including me, hated it. Our mailbox got knocked down by the snowplows. I have a horribly drippy cold. Did you ever read\u00a0Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day? My son loved it when he was little and we read it over and over. Alexander went to sleep with gum in his mouth and woke up with gum in his hair and the day just went downhill from there. But, in the end, he concludes with his mother’s help that “some days are like that.” Well, some days are. Thankfully, new days dawn and I woke up to emails promising to send me a new shirt and a new book. The brake job wasn’t as expensive as we feared. And horrible drippy colds do provide plenty of time to huddle on the couch and read. Since I am rarely sick, apart from migraines, my family has been charmingly helpful. They have offered me food and heating pads and willingly done chores I usually have to insist on. It has been strangely peaceful. I read an Agatha Christie today. Miss Marple and a few good murders were just what I was in the mood for. I also read Dear Mrs. Bird* by AJ Pearce. It was light and fluffy which was exactly what I needed. Emmeline has ambitions to be a wartime journalist but somehow ends up working on the advice column of a women’s magazine instead. She gets herself into all kinds of scrapes while WWII rages around her in London.\u00a0 The resolution was predictable but the book was cute. It is not high literature\u00a0but I did enjoy it. Right now, I am reading These Wonderful Rumours!\u00a0by May Smith. My previous book put me in the mood for wartime reading so this will be perfect. I love wartime diaries and this comes highly recommended. Who knows what tomorrow will bring. My cold is slightly less drippy. The snow started later than it was supposed to so now it is predicted to continue later into the morning tomorrow. That could totally mess up my schedule since tomorrow is one of my days in Boston. We shall see. Another day on the couch surrounded by books is not a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea. *Provided by the publisher through NetGalley. All opinions of cuteness and fluffiness completely my own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-lately"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2679,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/2679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}