It was One of those days............

When I should have just stayed in bed... and would have if it wasn't so frigging hot here at the moment... honestly now that the sun has come out, all the water that was soaked into the ground has become humidity and its nasty... but if it had of been a reasonable temperature.. bed is where I should have stayed....

But I didn't... I got ready to go with Hubby for his Hospital visit and off we went... until we drove onto the highway and the car suddenly decided that it really didn't want to go to Nambour and the coil decoiled, or didn't do whatever coils are supposed to do and suddenly our six cylinder car was doing an impression of a badly tuned tractor...

We crawled along to the next exit phoned the hospital and rebooked in February and headed back to Bribie burping and farting along...  The car sounded bad as well! hehehehehe

At that stage we thought it was a quick sparkplug replacement but no.. of course not... and by the time our pet mechanic had grumbled and reinforced his opinion about our stupidity in purchasing a ford in the first place replaced the coil and took our first born as payment it was almost lunch time....

We headed out and I will admit to drowning my sorrows in a large plate of Nachos... stopped and bought the fur kids some molasses to add to their dinners and just started to head home when Manda phoned to say that her car (also a ford, also white and also a station wagon) had also picked today to have a fit although hers was far worse than ours... So while the Hubbies investigated the required parts to fix hers I got to see Miss Lily and Mr Joseph... well I got to talk to Miss Lily but Mr Joseph was embedded in a Wii game so he did the totally normal male grunt thing..

After comparing the illnesses of our vehicles I believe today must be national white ford stationwagon hissy fit day and really could someone put that on all the calendars so we know not to venture out again this time next year...

No cardio this morning due to the planned road trip... but since we don't train on a Wednesday night and I really needed to let off some steam especially after spending the majority of the day doing the whole "why does crap like this happen to me/us continuously!!!!" whinge... and it is amazing how quickly a good blast of cardio can clear the fog from your head and give you time to think.....

I finally had time to consider my day and to let the news that one of my previous work mates had passed last night after battling cancer sink in... I did not know Suzie very well, she left work, due to her illness, just after I had started.. but she was a genuinely loving, caring and decent human.. one of those people who you are proud to have known.. one of those people who are referred to as too special, kind and gentle to have had to suffer from any disease.. She will be sadly missed by so many people and when loving, caring people are taken from us like this it does make you really ask Why? How can this be fair!

It made me reconsider my rotten day, it made me realise that stupid Fords breaking down are not the end of the world and don't do it just to pick on me.. it made me think about all the lovely, caring people who I have already lost from my life and it certainly made me realise how incredibly lucky I am that I am healthy enough to be actually doing cardio......

Yes it was certainly one of those days.... and I am grateful that I was there for every moment of it....