Fresh Lemons and Lemonade

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Simply enough, but recently life has been giving me anything as nice a lemons.  My sunny disposition has been rained on constantly on by never ending to-do list, bills and unexpected expenses.  The new job that I hoped would relieve some of the financial stress hasn’t started, yet.   So if life would literally give me some lemons that would be lovely. I would happily make lemonade to sell. 

Yesterday as I was coming home from a meeting when I ran a red light.  My mind was so distracted that I didn’t see it. Cars’ blared their horns and drivers cursed with wild gestures as I pulled through the intersection.  I can’t even remember what took my mind off my road.  It was as if my brain had suddenly been replaced by a lump of three day old guacamole.  Everything just seemed to come crashing down the lump, making it a very sad lump.

Nap time didn’t help. The lump was focused on the negative. 

The grand plan I have to celebrate my birthday was close to be chucked out the window.  My sister-friend Zee-Mama called to remind me about dinner and it was all I could do not to cry on the phone. I am not sure why I wanted to cry I think the lump was trying to take control of the rest of my body.  I wanted to stay home and just be.. when I stopped to consider what I was going to be for the rest of the night, I hopped back in the car.

A stimulation of Zee’s pool

Zee wouldn’t let me cancel. I am to report to her house Saturday at 5 p.m. with book and hang out at the pool.   It won’t fix any of the problems plaguing me, but it is a natural repellant for the lump inside my head. 

Maybe she will have some lemonade for me to sip on?