Celebration!

If you ask for something long enough, pray hard enough, and bother enough people you are bound to get what you want. So, yesterday was a particularly interesting day. Whatever could go wrong...did. I got off work and decided I wanted to celebrate the day. Two of my roomies were home when I got home and they were struggling to see what exactly I was celebrating. I enlightened them that I was celebrating the fact that one can choose to have a bad day or to simply make it a good day. You can choose to react to the negative or you can choose to celebrate that the bad is over and embrace the positives. I decided that as bad as the day was, I would make the choice to celebrate the day. Celebrate the fact that the bad was finished and the positives were yet to come. Keep in mind that all of this was done without reacting to the negatives. A few of the people I work with were so surprised to see me with a smile, having witnessed how lovely the day had gone. I embrace only positives and luckily I get the option to embrace each and every positive with all new situations, issues and problems.

I learned this valuable lesson during what I hope is the worst year of my life. 2007 is definitely a year to remember. A year that I am thankful that it happened, a year that made me stand a little taller and smile a little brighter. It was a year that helped me realize how wonderful life is. It wasn't until about half way through 2007 and that I learned that you really should celebrate the day...GOOD OR BAD. It is about the celebration! Yes, its a celebration! Day in and day out its a celebration.

I choose to celebrate yesterday. When the day started to take a turn, I began talking about how much I wanted an Irish Car Bomb (a shot of bailey's and jameson dropped in half glass of gunniess). A shot that I don't even like. I don't know why that was what I wanted...but it was. I talked about all afternoon and when I got home. Swallow, Criminole, and myself all headed to one of our favorite watering holes to celebrate the day. I walked in and was handed a ICB without even batting an eye. Amazing! When you believe, it comes. Criminole and Swallow were amazed. I just smiled and secretly wished my sister was there to see that yet again everything worked out for ME. I took my ICB like a champ and then ordered a jack on the rocks with lime. Life is good! That is the decision I choose to make...a decision I get the pleasure of choosing with each new situation.

The secret is that everything doesn't work out for me, but one would never know because I only acknowledge, celebrate and embrace the positives. The fact is life is fantastic and getting better everyday. Swallow and I talked about the fact that she was enjoyed to witness see my reaction to a bad day. She had never seen anybody celebrate my kind of day with champagne, smiles, and high fives. I might not be perfect, but I must admit that celebrating the day is a lot more fun than dwelling on the negatives.