'Well as they say "Life Happens," this morning certainly didn't go as expected. But part of being healthy is having a healthy state of mind and sometimes it's just better to laugh at your misfortunes and count your blessings. I certainly didn't expect my morning to start off so stinky, but over the course of a few hours I learned some amazing tricks, and found a teachable moment. Here is how my day started and how it progressed.
I had just let my dog, Roscoe, out and was sitting on the sofa sipping my coffee and thinking about how excited I was for this new adventure with The Happy Healthy Life Blog. It was a pretty nice and peaceful morning... Then it hit me, that unmistakable horrid smell of, what I thought at the time, was a skunk. I thought "Oh no! Roscoe!" So I jumped off the sofa and ran out side. When I opened the front door I was hit by the most potent, peculiar, gawd awful, putrid, horrible stench I have ever smelled. Seriously, words can not do justice for how bad it smelled. My eyes instantly started watering as I try to call Roscoe between dry heaving. As I am getting him onto the front porch I see a fox run from the corner of our house towards the neighbors house. After several attempts to get Roscoe off his line, I get him in the house and into the shower. I scrubbed him and scrubbed him until I couldn't smell the stench any more. I get him dried off and go and take a shower in our other bathroom. By this time, the whole house is starting to reek. At one point I thought the smell was coming through the water lines. After I get out of the shower my husband, Josh, comes out and asks about the smell. I told him I thought Roscoe got sprayed by a skunk, but that I had also seen a fox run away too. Well Josh looked it up and what do you know- FOX'S URINE STINKS WORST THAN SKUNK'S!!! Josh and I had no idea. The two of us finish getting ready and head to work. On our way into town I mention to Josh that I felt like i could still smell it. We just shrugged if off that it was because we were smelling it in the house. Oh no- I get to work and one of the first people I see says "Oh it smells like a skunk in here." I admitted it was probably me and explained my eventful morning to her. We had a laugh about it while I sent an email out saying I was going home to deal with the situation. So I get home and pull out everything in our cabinet that has the word "tomato" on it. I am frantically looking though my non perishables and I get a text from a co-worker suggesting baby oil! Baby oil? Really? I don't see how this is going to work- But at this point I'll try anything. Did I mentioned the whole house is saturated in this nasty smell? So I run to wal-mart and pick up a bottle of baby oil. I get back to the house and try it out on Roscoe. Low and behold IT WORKED!!! Who would have thought baby oil would get the smell of fox urine out? Just to be safe I started adding all of my tomato canned goods into a pot so that I could rinse and get the smell out. I scrub my self down with the tomato concoction, shower again so I don't smell like an Italian eatery, and then for good measure slather up in some baby oil. I finally feel like I no longer smell and head back to work. So, why have I told you this long drawn out story about my crazy morning? Because like I said, life happens. Things get crazy when the unexpected happens and things can spiral out of control. Have you ever stubbed your toe first thing in the morning and then the whole rest of your day you are plagued by annoyances? Maybe after stubbing your toe you spill coffee on your shirt, then you get stuck in traffic, which makes you late to work? Everything seems to snow ball from that tiny incident when you stub your toe. That's because you are focusing on the negative. Now it would be REALLY easy for me to dwell on all the crappy things that happened this morning. I could have focused only on the negative and I guarantee you I would have had a bad day. I would have been angry, sour, and probably mean to my fellow co-workers. What purpose would that have served? Does it do any good to get angry over the events that happened this morning? And if I did choose to get angry, who or what would be angry at? My dog? He doesn't understand why he smells. The fox? He just had a biological reaction due to being scared. Maybe I should be mad at my co-worker who was kind enough to let me know in a discreet manner that I smelled like skunk. That doesn't seem fair does it? You see there is no one thing I can place my anger on to- so why get angry? Instead I am focusing on the positive. I learned alot today. 1) Foxes, though cute, smell 1000 time worst than skunks. 2) Baby oil will take the smell of fox urine off a dog. 3) Tomato sauce will not stain your hair. So next time you find your self in a stinky situation remember, grab the baby oil and smile on!
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January 2019
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