Mostly Cloudy Day.

I normally don't like to post whiny negative posts, but yesterday was just one of those dark cloud days. I woke up late. In pain. Had a fever. Missed a school deadline. Laptop on Day 3 of repairs. Blog designs just not flowing. Behind on other designs. Behind on homework. Stressed to the max. Disaster day.

I was knee deep in my self-pity party when one of my best friends, Anonymouse, messaged me about her having the same kind of day. Normally I would be horrified if my friends or family were having a bad day. I would NEVER wish a bad day on ANYONE. Not even my worst enemy! Bad days can be so spirit breaking, but I would be lying if I didn't admit that I was slightly in relief that I was not the only one having such a day and I had someone to vent with and join my pity party.

One important factor you need to know about Anonymouse is that she is deaf, but you would never know it. Never. I actually forget from time to time. She's not one to use her hearing issues as a ploy to get sympathy or get special advantages in life. I know that I would not embrace hearing loss with such grace as Mousey. Hearing is one of those senses that I take for granted. And she has to work twice as hard for things that I would consider simple.

One such task is telephone costumer service. Or ANY costumer service for that matter, but at least in person she can read lips or they can write things down to verify. So Mousey has to find more creative solutions to do ask questions about bills, etc. One of the most popular methods is a costumer service chat window where you speak to a live person about your bill or issues. Now I will be the first person to say that unless using very loaded language emotions are hard to get across in chats. That also goes for punctuation. Punctuation is KEY to all reading.... INCLUDING CHAT SESSIONS (and talking for some people, but I digress.) If there is no clear punctuation things go awry. Quickly.

While ending a particularly frustrating session with one, lets just say oblivious young man, she had a story that turned my dark gloomy day into a laugh fest. This statement was C&P'ed (copy & pasted for you non forum lingo peeps) directly from her computer.

"Please send a confirmation email to my personal email because I handle all this stuff...theanonymouse@email.com."

Simple request right?

She never got the confirmation because he sent it to the address of "stuff...theanonymouse@email.com" and he couldn't figure out why it was not sending. He was literally adding "stuff..." as the first part of the email.

Now while this may not be overly funny to you guys, to me it was down right hilarious. I seriously laughed for 30 mins straight. I had tears and all.

I would keep emailing her kits, designs etc. and she would ask which acct I sent them too and I would HAVE to reply "stuff...theanonymouse@email.com".

I also have to give a GIANT shout to the Husband and Paul for saving the day yesterday on the laptop. Between the 3 of you the clouds of my day moved out and I had a clear night and sunny day today!!!

For those of your having a dark cloudy day hopefully this pic will add some color to your day. I used it for inspiration for my header.

A tulip field being irrigated in North Holland.  The rainbow just makes a perfect sight even better.