Memorial Day Weekend Recap
Hello all and Happy Memorial Day! I hope many of you are enjoying an extra day off today. We are blessed to have a super unseasonably cool weekend upon us to actually enjoy. (Well, for someone like me!) When you have to wear a jacket on walks, I say it's a victory given how many Memorial Days we've spent drenched in flop sweat. So I am going to enjoy the cool spell while I can. We had a ton of rainy, cold days which were good for my soul but my newly planted veggies and flowers weren't necessarily happy about it. Whoops! The first hint of sun they got was Friday so I'm sure they were happy to know they could actually get some sun instead of thinking they lived in London. I have mentioned our a-hole squirrels/chipmunks around here and I saw one sniffin' around the zinnias in the side bed so what did I have to do? Obviously I can't have them there forever but until they're not as wee, I think they should be helpful. I had a delig...
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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