Not Everyday

This day didn't start that well. I woke up dehydrated at 3:30am this morning and couldn't go back to sleep. So I started to watch CNBC business news. That gave me several trading ideas so I logged on (like I would ever log off?!) and for the first time entered trades in the pre-market trading. No executions since I run a pretty tight game right now. Once the market opened I got a crappy entry on a play. All this before the first cup of coffee.

One thing leads to the other so when I went down to grab the WSJ I saw that I had gotten a parking ticket. Damn! The reason was that I had parked in the 'wrong direction'. When I got back up to our place the missus looked at me and said: How's your blood pressure? I guess I'm easy to read or the fumes coming out of my ears gave it away.

After a pretty fantastic omelett I started to think of the dentist visit later in the day. It was the visit I have dreaded for the past 12 months - the extraction of two of my last three wisdom teeth.

But since I'm known to be a bulldog (i.e. get really pissed off but never give up) I kept getting back into the game. Well, I missed another exit and another entry. Not really my day, ergh.

But as soon as I started to wind down and prepare my lunch I looked over at the monitor and saw my latest position start to shoot up. Looked like the play was going to pay off nicely. So I closed the position in the black, finished my lunch and headed for Starbucks to celebrate with a cold Frappuccino before the extraction.

Well, the extraction went well thanks to my super professional dentist and eventhough it was an uncomfortable experience it felt good to have another task done on the weekly todo-list. Furthermore, when I got home our maid was finished with cleaning our house which was in a fabulous state.

Today was a great reminder that even if things sometimes looks really dark there is almost always light around the corner. Life is, after all, really damn good!