What I'm Reading This Week #37
Good mid(ish)- September Friday to you. I hope your week felt short and your flop sweat was minimal. We never seem to be rewarded with two cool weeks in a row so it was back to poopie temps and we'll be tipping 90 this weekend which I am none too pleased about. Once you throw me two 70's days in a row, it's time to retire the summer temps. Dems da rules. I got a few things done this week like steaming the curtains which made them drop about 1/2" but thankfully not drag the floor. I finally got the dead flat I ordered from some chick on Etsy after she sent me the wrong thing initially and it took two weeks to get the right thing. I don't know about you but if I sent someone the wrong thing initially and made them have to drive to the post office to return my mistake, I'd be refunding some money or expediting their shipping on the right box. So I've got my two coats on the newel post after doing a little touch up on a spot I didn't see originally....
I'm hoping to re-establish a close friendship with one of my longtime friends. She had some significant family issues in the last few years that took all of her energy and didn't have time for too many people outside of that inner circle. That is ending now and I would like to be able to improve our friendship.
ReplyDeleteI'm also hoping that I will be able to put all of the resilience strategies that I have developed in the last year to use when I return to the office environment eventually and my the construction project that I have been working on gears up again. With construction comes a lot of regulatory issues, long days, schedule challenges, constructability challenges, community engagement challenges, and lots of armchair quarterbacks on the outside questioning my decisions. In the past it has been very hard to roll with the punches, put on a smile, and not take it personally.
My focus will be growing in my faith and truly taking life one day at a time, and not projecting forward. I'm terrible about catastrophizing and suck all my energy into those useless thoughts (which do NOT help me better prepare if the worst does happen, even though that's the excuse I use)and then I find I minimize the good things because I'm so resentful of other crap. Focusing on God and the "outward" things instead of navel-gazing, and only 24 hours a time, is my hope and focus.
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