Bad Day

Are you having a bad day? Have you ever had a bad day?

We are guessing yes, because who hasn’t had a bad day! Well we’ve got a few ideas to help you turn that frown upside down ;)

Since losing Dad, we certainly have our fair share of bad days. Here are just a few songs to listen to and movies to watch that might cheer you up a little when you’re having a bit of a teary kind of day.

First points of call though: 

...phone or see a friend or family and have a good chat! 

...eat chocolate 

...have a cup of tea 

...bubble bath 

For the music, pull out your headphones…or cassette players…or record players if you’re a lil' bit behind with the times…and listen to a few of these upbeat, feel-good (and maybe cheesy) tracks.

Reach For the Stars - S Club 7 (you can do the actions too, get those hands up in the air…wave ‘em like you just don’t care)

Dancing in the Moonlight  - Toploader

When Life Gives Me Lemons I Make Lemonade - The Boy Least Likely To 

C'Est La Vie - B*Witched (some people say I look like me Dad!!!!) 

Happy - C2C feat. D.Martin  

King Of Wishful Thinking - Go West 

Let It Go - Frozen 

Bad Day - Daniel Powter 

Beauty In The World - Macy Gray (saw this on A Little Bit Of Heaven, don't watch that movie without tissues!!!) 

Hard Knock Life - Jay Z 

Many The Miles - Sara Bareilles 

Dream Catch Me - Newton Faulkner 

MMMBop - Hanson 

Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations 

Little Bitty Pretty One - Thurston Harris (because we all tried to make things move by pointing at them like Matilda did!) 

Walking On Sunshine - Katrina & The Waves 

Wannabe - Spice Girls (to Spice up your life!) 

Respect - Aretha Franklin 

Jump For My Love - Pointer Sisters (and yes the video has Hugh Grant wiggling his booty!!! Come on all you men...join in!) 

Come on Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners 

Pocketful of Sunshine - Natasha Bedingfield 

Undiscovered - James Morrison 

Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds 

Cups (When I'm Gone) - Anna Kendrick (grab a cup and learn how to do the cup song!) 

So Young - The Corrs 

On Top of the World - Imagine Dragons (you might not be feeling it now, but you will after hearing this lovely song) 

Some movies...

• Mamma Mia! (Abba sing-a-long) 
• Pretty Woman (Richard Gere) 
• Love Actually (Hugh Grant) 
• Bridesmaids (very funny) 
• Frozen (sing-a-long...sometimes the bad guy is a prince in disguise) 
• Dirty Dancing (Patrick Swayze, we'd say Ghost too but you definitely need tissues for that) 
• About Time (really cute story line, a must watch) 
• Mean Girls (that's sooo fetch) 
• 17 Again (Zac Efron) 
• Hairspray (Mr Efron again!) 
• Bridget Jones 
• Notting Hill 
• American Pie (never gets old) 
• Pitch Perfect 
• The Rebound 
• The Holiday (Jude Law) 
• Sister Act 
• Meet The Fockers 
• Did You Hear About The Morgans 
• When In Rome 
• Life As We Know It 
• The Notebook (Ryan Gosling and such a sweet movie) 
• High School Musical (cheesy but if you don't know every song, well, you should) 
• Fool's Gold (Matthew McConaughey) 
• How To Lose A Guy In Ten Days (McConaughey and yes we Google spell-checked that name!!!) 
• Over Her Dead Body 
• Monster In-Law 
• The Back-Up Plan 
• Step Up 
• Stardust 
• Safe Haven 
• The Sapphires 
• Crazy Stupid Love (Ryan Gosling) 
• The Proposal 
• The Bodyguard 
• Rainman 
• Grease
• Footloose 
• Marley & Me (tissues for this one, a whole box in our case...) 
• White Chicks (we're watching this again tonight... 'A Thousand Miles' by Vanessa Carlton will never be the same!!!) 
• She's Out Of My League 
• Just Friends 
• Happy Feet 
• Finding Nemo 
• Death At A Funeral 
• An Officer and A Gentleman 
• Killers 
• Norbit 

Sometimes we all need a pick-me-up. We may have our bad days but it's important to remember that there is a lot to smile about in this world.

Three pieces of advice from Dad: 

1) Have a 'positive mental attitude' 

2) Don't make a mountain out of a molehill 

3) Sometimes it may feel like it's the end of the world, but remember that the world is round and it may just be the beginning. 

Hope we made you smile. 

Love, 

Laura and Amy x