Bits and Bites: Will Today Be an Up Bounce?

Patterns intrigue me. I think I've spotted a simple pattern in my life. I'm going to label this pattern the 'bouncing karma pattern'.

Day #1- the up bounce: good things happen, people smile at me, the world is shiny, things fall into place without apparent help from me, my incoming calls are nothing but nice news.

Day #2 - the down bounce: on the down bounce I tend to lose control of my day by about 9:00 AM. one of my sons calls me with a terrific problem, which usually means help from me and requires a rearrangement of my plans. the subcontractors are infighting, the building inspector is in an awful mood. the down bounce is when I find kitty puke on the front steps, and remember an appointment I forgot.

Day #3 - the up bounce, Day #4 - the down bounce, etc.

If this is so, as it seems to be to me, then today will be a good day. A really good day. Because my up bounce is going to be high, my down bounce yesterday was pretty low. Unless H hit the nail on the head about attracting bad karma when I killed the spider which came in on the wood I brought in. Maybe that was why yesterday was one very hard and painful day.

I keep trying to figure out if I can change my karma, or luck, or whatever. Yesterday I awoke relaxed and ready for a day of goodness, or at least full of tools to handle whatever crossed my path. The scarlet maples against the backdrop of a soft pink sunrise brought joy to my soul. I was not harboring hard feelings towards anyone or anything. Just ready to enjoy what I was to be given on this day.

But I lost control of the day at about 8:00 in the morning. I'll spare my lovely reader with the details, but know that if there was a tragic story to be told, it was my ear it fell into. If there were impossible problems people were dealing with, it was to me they griped. I found myself in the middle of a dispute. Other than a terrific call I received from Gabe, who was happy about some good news, the rest of my day was mostly painful and confusing. I found myself crying in frustration and sadness, unable to (sorry H) find my center, to step back and process each of the things that hurt that day. I told Paul that it was so crazy - Monday I found myself having a rainbow of a day, not because I had a good attitude or anything, because I was a bit grouchy at getting up at 4:30 in the morning to drive for almost 3 hours to someplace I didn't want to go. And Tuesday I awoke ready for the day but found myself in a swamp of ugliness.

Which brings me to my topic.

Today I'm on the up bounce. And already it is looking like it may be a good day since my first call of the day was from someone who agreed to push out our meeting until the afternoon. Yesterday I had forgotten this meeting and made another appointment for the same time. That was going to make things really messy for me today, and cause me to eat a little crow when I made the other call, since the conflicting appointment I had made for this morning was itself a reschedule from an appointment I couldn't make, because me son called with a problem that he was counting on me to help him with. So now I can keep my rescheduled appointment, and keep my original appointment a little later. Whew.

It was about a couple years ago I started noticing that when I had a real bad day, a day that made me think I couldn't work at this place anymore, then the next day was really good, and I made progress and received reassurances. And then the next day was bad again, then the next was good, and it just seemed to work that way.

Now the question is:

Was I just seeing something random and making it significant in the typical way we of the human species tend to do?

Or,

Is it indeed a fateful pattern?

And,

If it is a pattern, is it one of my own making because of the 'self-fulfilling prophecy syndrome', because I assumed the pattern was there already?