Why do we have shitty days?

I got up this morning on the wrong side of the bed and I can tell you that things have gone down from there. I started doing site support before I had coffee or a piece of toast. I’m wondering if I had done things differently, maybe I’d be in a better mood.

Truthfully, I’m pretty much always in a good mood so the rare days that I have the can’t help its seem much worse than they really are. I’ve tried thinking a happy thought for 17 seconds and I smiled for 3 seconds and then I went right back to feeling pissy again.

Someone suggested that I should look at peaceful photographs. All I saw were pictures of places I’d like to visit — without me in them.

Someone else suggested that I meditate. How can you meditate when all you really want to do is throw rocks?

What are your tricks for getting out of a shitty mood?

I’ve been away for a week. I took my daughter who’s visiting from Florida to Rotorua to see Maori shows, boiling mud pools and geysers and then traveled to see the glow worms in the caves at Waitomo. We ended up in Auckland and that’s where the gallstones acted up and I’ve been in the hospital ever since. They’ve given me a day pass and I used it to come home and spend the night in my own bed.

I’m sick of no food or drink and I’m dreading the procedures next week. Think good thoughts that everything will go smoothly, ok? Thanks. If any of you have left comments and wondered where they went.. I am just getting to them now.