The Silver Lining

A few days ago, I had a day that would not be considered by most standards to have been all that great.
To set the stage:
It was (and still is) the first week of school.  I have an excellent schedule and was at school when...
I realized that I was practically Starving to death!
I was SOOOOO hungry, and it was only 2nd period!
I reached for my backpack, resolving to eat a part of my lunch early, which is what I usually do, when, to my utter disappointment, it was brought to my attention that I'd foregone my lunch preparations.  Simply put: it wasn't there.
Devastated, I set out upon the rest of my day.  Still, life went on, I had a spectacular day, and all was (more or less) well.
By the time lunch rolled around, though I'd resigned myself to a day of hunger, I couldn't help but to look around at everyone else's lunches.  I had nothing better to do, they were all busy eating, I wasn't.  I looked at my 'self's' lunch, and I realized that I'd forgotten another crucial detail on the day in question.
It was my very best friend's birthday!
Sheepishly, I apologized.
She was very sympathetic and kind.  I felt like a lethargic fool.
Still, the day wore on.
It got better and better, as my days usually do, though I still couldn't forgive myself for all of my forgetfulness in the morning...  neither could my poor tummy.  It was angry at me, but I ignored it.
When I got home, I made a lovely cake and brownies.  I bought a balloon and a unicorn (yup, a real-life unicorn!) and I brought them over.
Turns out she wasn't home...  ah dang.
So I went home (but obviously left all of the stuff with her marvelous parents)...
A few hours later, I decided to go to a large-scale pool party/luau.  Once I found the elusive party, it quickly rose to my attention that I did not know anyone there.  Not well anyway.  I determined that I would have to either socialize with relative strangers or die.  I did not choose the latter (*cough cough* obviously! *cough cough*).
After a good while of doing absolutely nothing (but of course bonding with random people) we actually got to go into the pool...
Only 15 minutes in, we began to see lightning.  25 minutes in, we were told to get out.  I then stood in the middle of the parking lot, all by myself, in a horrendous, torrential down-pour for nearly half an hour.  My parents had elected it to be safer and more convenient for them to drive me there instead of myself...  The issue was that there was roadwork or something and they had to take a detour...  and they went to the wrong parking lot because it's hard to understand people over the roaring resonance of the rain.

yes.  Doesn't that sound like a Fabulous day to you?

Really though, it was!
When you shift your perspective, you can see an entirely different world.
TRUE STORY!

You're so very welcome,

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