Smile Until Your Jaw Locks

Karma is kind of a funny thing.  At least Karma thinks so.  Karma is one of those annoying beings that laughs at its own jokes.  Everyone is secretly hating Karma and failing to understand how it can be so socially unaware.  But they all chuckle along half-heartedly because Karma is also a little bit mean and has been known to hold a grudge.

The first "official"day of my spring break finds me still smiling.  I shall not be deterred from the smiling.  I waited a long time for this vacation and will enjoy it if it kills me.  Look!  How can you not enjoy a Big, Fluffy Kitty with her new toy?

I thought the blurry ones I posted a few days ago were way funnier, but these show that I actually do know how to use one or two of the settings on my camera.

Sure, I could get to thinking about how sometimes life isn't really all that fair.  Or about all the things that I'd been planning to do with this most joyous of times.  I was going to go shopping right after school on Friday and maybe treat myself to some super-special girly sorts of stuff.  But, I didn't get to do that.  It's OK.  The BFK is very, very cute:

See how she's stalking that whirling feather?  Adorable, I tellya!!!

On Saturday, I'd given some thought to heading over to the used book store and picking myself up a little reading material for my restful entertainment.  That is both a treat and a very fiscally responsible thing to do.  Plus it's like recycling and that is also a very good thing.  But I didn't get to do that either.  Oh, that BFK!  She's just a treasure what with all the fluffy, romping sweetness!  How can you not maintain a smile?

Awww!  She caught it.  Now she's gonna kill it!  Mommy's little girl is so grown up!

On Sunday I hadn't actually planned to do much.  I was, however, looking forward to staying up really, really late watching TV and playing computer games because I am on vacation and can sleep as long as I'd like in the morning.  Yet, I had to go to bed at a reasonable hour.  The alarm needed to be set like it was a working day.  But, hey!  There's always spinning!  I really, really like to spin and I don't often have the chance to do that during the week.  Spinning is nice and soothing.

I didn't get much done because my teeth were grinding from all the smiling and then my neck got really stiff.  But still...it was a very nice way to spend the time before the pain kicked in.

I will continue in this fine tradition of making the best of it.  I will smile until the pain makes it impossible or the nice men with the white suits and the butterfly net come to visit and suggest that I might like to see the pretty room they have for me with the rubber wallpaper.  I am happy.  Happy to the point of needing medication.  Because it is my vacation and, as God is my witness, I will find the joy in this.  

Oh, and Rabbitch?  Your offer this morning to go all "stabbity" on my behalf touched my withered, old heart.  Seriously.  I had a little tear in my right eyeball.  (I was still smiling, though.  Because that is the plan and I am not one to detour from a planned course of action.)  Having someone who is willing to cross international borders with sharp objects for me is so very, very sweet.  You are a gem.  And if you could hang by the phone tomorrow, that'd be super.

I have to do a little unplanned car shopping...

SA