the tirade

Today didn't start out well.

I woke later than I wanted to. Immediately I was reminded of the long to-do list on my calendar. On top of that I remembered the hours I wasted watching Sharks lose yesterday.

Add to this - the fact that my daughter was sitting in her room idle. She practices her music in the morning. But today she was ready, but no music was coming out of her room. She was just sitting and staring at the wall.

I don't know what that triggered in me but I went off on a tirade. I raved and ranted at her. Oh! how the words flowed. No pause for breath, or thoughts or explanations. I was on an all-mighty roll. For those of you who'll done this, you know there is no stopping it.

For the lucky others, here's a example of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXgoJ0f5EsQ

I was doing the condensed version. Nobody recorded me but I sounded the same. If not worse!

On and on and on I went. Until my dear hubby, bless him, decided to intervene. He hugged Medha and gave me a look.

I paused - long enough for him to ask the question that I should have asked first. He asked her why she couldn't sing this morning. She said "My phone started beeping at midnight, I didn't sleep properly". Again with a warning look in my direction he asked the follow-up question. "What is special about today that you needed a remainder?"

Medha didn't even glance at me - she was afraid I would start again. Looking at her dad, she said "I set the 2 day remainder for your anniversary on the 13th! I didn't expect it to ring at night" ( she probably needed the 2 days to compose a poem or a well-thought out card or make a drawing for us)

Silence! - deadly silence followed her announcement.

You could hear a pin drop. Forget the pin, you could hear my thoughts churning in my head.

It was screaming "Oh! Why doesn't Life come with a REWIND+ERASE button? why not, why not?!!"

Better still if it came with a PAUSE+LISTEN button.

But for now, the big, bold and bright CRINGE+MAKE-UP button is beckoning.
Oh! doesn't that look well-used and well-worn!! Here comes yet another click on it.

Any ideas / suggestions for the make-up part?