Everyone has had one of Those Days...

You know. Whether or not they are prompted into being by a concretely negative event, or whether you just wake up in the morning with low self esteem and hating the world, every once in a while we are all assaulted by a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.

And unfortunately, much as Alexander discovered, bad days just happen, even in Australia.

But be ye not distressed!! Although there may not be a direct cure, there is at least a salve, an ointment to make these days more bearable.

Simply, although somewhat tritely said, count your blessings.

I promise, it will help
...once in a while, anyway.


We have been working on this list for three years and only have around 3400 reasons. My goal is 14,873.

To get there I need all your help
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· Barbie and her innumerable accessories· Bathtub paints · Beanie Babies · Bibs (ones with cute sayings like "I Love My Mommy" or "spit happens" or a picture of a basketball and some play on the word "dribble" · Big Wheels, attempting to "pop a wheelie" · Bobble-Head dolls · Childhood cartoons that you love, but only for their sentimental value · Childhood toys · Children · Crayon shavings, and coloring with them · Dump Trucks, the little yellow toy ones · Fairy dust · Finger paint · Fisher Price barn that moos when door is closed · Fisher Price toys · Giggling Babies · hand prints in cement (and making them) · Putting playing cards on your bike to make it sound like a motorcycle · Reading the back of the cereal box while eating breakfast · Ripping the label off of crayons so that you can sharpen them · Sand castles in all their majesty, and frailty · Sippy cups · snow angels · A child's first snow angel and the look on their face when they see what they've created · Snow balls · Snow globes · Sock dolls · Spaghetti and Meatballs, the song · Spinning in circles until you fall down · Stuffed animals, especially exotic ones like giraffe, platypus or emu · swing sets in a sea of warm soft sand, and jumping off the swing landing ankle deep in it · swing sets with monkey bars and a slide connected · Tea Parties with real cookies and sugar water ·Teddy bears · Tire Swings · Toy snow cone maker · Toys from cereal boxes · Treasure chests · Treasure hunts · Treasure maps · tug-o-war · Knowing the answers to Jeopardy · Abbreviations · Acronyms · Adopted foreign words · "Adverbial" · adverbs · Alphabetical order · Anomalies · Aunt vs. Ant · bad spelling (and correcting it) · Bouffant, the word · Buffoons, the word and the people · code names · Code words · crazy street names · Cross Language cognates · Dead languages and the people who still know them · Dessert has two ‘S’s because you want more of it · Double Dutch · Double negatives · Double O’s (moon, moose, loose, spoon, took, boohoo, woozy, booster) · Enhanced truth · Español · Ezekiel, the name · Failing at accents · pez vs. pescador (live vs. dead fish) · Reverse dictionaries · Rhetorical strategies · Rhyming · satire · sdrawkcab gnitirw · Sign language · Sign vs. sing · Silent E’s · Slang terms · sophomoric: conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature, Exhibiting great immaturity and lack of judgment · Spanish letter ñ Ñ · Spanish movies · Synonyms · Trying to spell Russian Characters w/o a Russian Keyboard · Using bad grammar around grammarians, just to spite them · Using the word “spiffy” or “neat” · Word searches · words that are spelled weird · Words that sound really cool · Words that start with X · Words with double meanings · Stories that end with “… Happily ever after” · Stories that start with “Once upon a time…” · “Yup yup yup” monsters on Sesame Street · 30-50’s movie musicals · American Idol · Annual TV specials · Arsenic and old lace · Arthur, The show · Bad actors in Hollywood that everyone loves · Black & White TV Shows · Budweiser frogs · Cable Television · cable vs. satellite · Christmas specials · classic episodes of "I Love Lucy" · Clifford the Big Red Dog · Listening to people talk to their opponents in video games · Pop/Soda/Coke · Pop Rocks · Popcorn · Powder at the bottom of the cereal, the · raw fish · Rice Krispies and the sound they make when swimming in milk · roasting the perfect marshmallow · S'mores · Snicker Doodles · Soup · Sour Patch Kids · spaghetti and meatballs · Spam (the meat, not the junk mail) · Sprite · Stacks of steaming golden pancakes with slabs of butter melting on top and syrup gently dripping down the sides · Stale cereal · Starbucks coffee · strawberries and cream · Strawberries with sugar · Strawberry milk · Stephen Sondheim · Sub sandwiches with extra cheese · Sugar cubes · Sugar free gum · Swiss cheese · Taco Bell · Tater-tots · Tea with too much sugar · Groups like this, and the wonderful people who join and help make the world a happppier place, one thing at a time (read less)

Everyone has had one of Those Days...

You know. Whether or not they are prompted into being by a concretely negative event, or whether you just wake up in the morning with low self esteem and hating the world, every once in a while we are all assaulted by a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.

And unfortunately, much as Alexander discovered, bad days just happen, even in Australia.

But be ye not distressed!! Although there may not be a direct cure, there is at least a salve, an... (read more)