Common phrases, Uncommon Day

It’s always the darkest before dawn. Especially if you are hitting the snooze button and pretending that it’s the middle of the night. 

 One morning I got up determined to put my best foot forward but after attempting three different outfits I had to call a spade a spade and admit that this early bird was not catching the worm. 

 My husband who is a man after my heart woke up on the wrong side of the bed and was giving me the hairy eyeball. Perhaps it was because it was raining cats and dogs outside. Nevertheless, I cheerfully said, “Keep a stiff upper lip. Don’t get your dander up. There’s a song in my heart and I’m ready for love.”

 My effort went over like a lead balloon and I realized if I continued to mess with the bull, I was going to get the horns. Time passed and there was no use beating around the bush, it was time to go to work. I rode shotgun.

 I was expecting an easy day and Russ reminded me not to count my chickens before they were hatched. “The best rule of thumb is to cut to the chase and to realize that what goes around, comes around. Don’t beat around the bush and if it all goes down the tubes, remember that loose lips sink ships.” 

 With all this encouragement I girded up my loins and got my foot in the door and was determined to mind my p’s and q’s. The day began like a shot and soon I was busier than a one armed paper hanger. 

 One crisis followed another but I was on it like white on rice even though occasionally the right hand didn’t know what the left hand was doing. 

 Our newest employee who was still wet behind the ears resembled a chicken with its head cut off but after I encouraged her to pass the buck she was much better. The client that was a fry short of a happy meal was made an offer she couldn’t refuse and that hit the nail on the head. 

 At the end of the day my boss complimented me by saying I was a chip off the old block and though I’d felt like a fish out of water that was a shot in the arm. 

 When Russ picked me up I commented, “Even though it felt like things were going to hell in a handbasket, we snatched victory from the jaws of defeat and right now I’m as happy as a clam.” So ended another day. And before I kick the bucket or am pushing up daisies I wanted to share it with you.