Sometimes these can be one and the same thing - just viewed a different way...
Take the Easter Holidays for example:
Good Things:
- No school run (Hooray!)
- Sunshine
- Less plans
- Less rushing
- Time with family
- Easter itself
Bad Things:
- Less time to myself
- Less time for blogging (apologies - I know it's been ages)
- Hay fever
- Suncream wars (the familiar sequel to the Sunhat wars...)
- Endless Creepy-crawly evictions due to warm weather, and newly phobic small boy...
I'm sure you could add more to your list...
Maybe life is a lesson in learning to focus on the positive, rather than the negative.
After all, who wants to be miserable?