What I'm Reading This Week #31
Good morning and welcome to August. Time is so weird, isn't it. It's insane we're starting the 8th month of the year but yet if I thought back to where we started the year in snow, that seems like a lifetime ago. It's been a very long year yet seems to have gone fast - how does that work? Anyhoo, I hope you're ready to roll for the weekend and the week didn't drop kick you too hard. Once again our HOA was refusing to do their job and wanted to check the drainage. This problem is on our subfloor. ..above anyplace for drainage to be an issue with no gutters above it. Then the woman in power sits on emails all friggin' day and purposely sends things out on her way out the door so another day gets wasted. Oh the things the Mr and I say about her that I can't say here. I was shaking so bad Monday night I wanted to go out and rip the damn siding off myself but we worked out instead to try to work off the frustration. I called o...
My Dad made it clear to me while he was in his last months that a lesson he learned was to live life the way I wanted and not let everyone else run it. I like to think I have heeded that to some extent. Obviously it's not easy doing that when you have to answer to a boss, co-workers, etc but I know that I am a more authentic version of myself than I was before and it helps to think about that from time to time.
ReplyDeleteI have a loved one give me this bit of wisdom that has stuck with me (although I admit to being a poor example at it more times than not, but it's been resonating a lot lately):
ReplyDelete"When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness."
Then they said something funny that I also had to write down:
Relationships with negative people are simply tedious encounters with porcupines. Truth!