Life Threw Me for a Loop

"Life Threw Me for a Loop" - Where does this saying come from?  *scratches head*  I know what it means, but why couldn't I just say "life's messing with my game"  or  something like that?  Anyway, life's really messing with my game when I ...

• am happy cause it's Friday until, someone points out it's really Tuesday. 
• wake up to bright sunlight and think I overslept until, I realize I was napping.
• drag myself to the gym after work, and fall asleep in my parked car.
• have a complete conversation with my husband only to realize later that I've been talking in Spanish (a language he doesn't know).
• have to ask my husband to repeat what he just said for the third time.
• have to make my own candy for my sugar fix, because I forgot to put it on my shopping list. Ok, this last one's lame, but so true.



Life's a bowl of #%#!!!
when you're an indoor cat.

"Life is just a bowl of cherries" - Where did that come from?  What if I don't like cherries? Maybe we should just say "Life's a bowl".  I can agree with that, can't you?  And depending on where we are in life, it can be a bowl of cherries or a bowl of  #%*# !! 

Now you decide.  Life's a bowl of ___?____ when...

• I ask an officer to help me get this dad to move his car and the guy gets arrested for showing a fake driver's license. 
• the book I just bought is painful to read because of grammatical errors. (Ok, that's my pet peeve.)  
• my sculptor son is being commissioned to work on an art project.
• I give sound advice, it's ignored, and it all comes back to bite them and me. 
• I realize how blessed I am to have such a wonderful family.
• I have to wipe a pre-schooler's butt, because he tells me he's too little to do it for himself.  (Yep, I have a few of those in my class.)

Are there any idioms you think are idiotic?  Has life thrown you for a loop?  yes/no  What's in your bowl?