When upon the morning you are grouchy for absolutely no reason

Last week, when my alarm told me it was time to start the week, I felt pretty miserable. Have you ever had a morning like that? The day hasn't even  begun and you already loathe it; you wake up feeling like a real sad, cranky, sorry sack. Anyone? Anyone?

Well I really didn't want to get out of bed, I was absolutely sure that Monday and probably the entire week had nothing pleasant to offer. I was down right grumpy. I moped about having nothing to look forward to. I ignored my sleepy husband's attempts to cheer me up; retorting with things like "na uh" and "it won't be" (read in your best immature adolescent voice, because that is how I was saying it) anytime he said it would be a great week. It was pretty embarrassing and not my typical start to the morning.

I realized something later that week, the normal-lifes are starting to seep in. We have had an action packed summer, you know with that whole getting married business. And we are now really starting to get back to normal, everyday kind of living. Things are, for the most part settled (although we still have a stack of thank you notes to address. Don't judge us, the were written a good while ago if that counts for anything.) Don't get me wrong, everyday living is easily my favorite kind of living. But, it can occasionally leave one (read me) waking up a bit cranky because one (me) may be overlooking all the wonderful.

As a result of this realization and in an effort to combat the normal-life crankies (because let's face it they only get worse in the winter when the inversions are endless and the snow always wet and snowing) I am going to make more of an effort to remember the good. I really am so lucky, so blessed-seriously so blessed, and incredibly happy. Therefore, it should be easy to focus on those things right? Yeah it isn't always so easy. In fact it seems easier to think of what we don't have rather than what we do. So I am going to resort to the old tried and true method of counting my blessings and naming them one by one. Tomorrow I will post a list of the things I am especially grateful for lately. I am going to title this list Fortuosity because that song has been on repeat in my head while I type post, and it's such a happy song. I know the song isn't really about counting blessings (I have listened to it lots of times), it is more about lucking into things. But I think it fits because I feel pretty lucky.

Applicable song: Count your blessings
Applicable song: Fortuosity