Showing posts with label Suck ItUp Buttercup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Suck ItUp Buttercup. Show all posts

Friday, September 15, 2023

Morning Dread

My plans for last weekend, this week, and the next six or seven weeks
have been thrown into disarray.  I could get discouraged, 
but I'm going to suck it up buttercup.

Buttercups
Reykjavík, Iceland
June 12, 2014
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Well, once I get out of bed that is.  
When I wake up, I want to pull the covers over my head
and make the world go away.
This is so not me!  I am a morning lark.

I recently read an article by Tom Chiarella who was interviewing Jeff Bridges
in a summer issue of AARP The Magazine, and this jumped out at me.
Sometimes Bridges experiences what he calls morning dread.
"'I sometimes wake up and say, 
'Oh God, I gotta get up and do all this stuff that I don't want to do.'"

That's where I am right now.
Does this happen to you?



Everything will get squared away, but it's going to take time I'm short on,
and involve aggravating things I don't want to do.

Whine.  Whine.



So this morning I told myself that I could wallow for a little while
after getting out of bed, and then I had to get real.
I went hunting for some memes to cheer me up:

If Bruno Mars and "Uptown Funk" can't lift my spirits and purpose,
I can always count on the faces I love.

So here are some happy faces that are certain to work for me,
which I'm linking to  Nicole's  Friday Face Off.


Card Games at My Cousins Julie and Dave's Home
Blair, Julie, Sue, and Barb
Smith's Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada
August 11, 2017
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Jeannie and Rosie
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Date Unknown





The Best Guy in the World!
Blue Lagoon, Iceland
June 14, 2014
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Guaranteed to make me laugh; a favorite childhood photo of mine, ADHD me,
in a perpetual harness, tied on, and trailing a rope for a good three summers of my life.

Aggravation in the Past!
Smith's Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada
Summer 1952
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What do you do if you experience morning dread?
When you wake up and say, 
"Oh God, I gotta get up and do all this stuff that I don't want to do."
I'd love to know what works for you!

Last week I didn't get around to visit as I planned.
🤞I make it this time!

Have a great weekend!




Till next time ~
Fundy Blue

  My next post will be soon! 🤞



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