I guess I was due for a harder day. I’ve been doing really well lately, but today came out swinging, and I took a few on the chin, for sure.
I took the day “off” again. Had a good morning again, up on time, everything good up until about 5×5 time. Not sure what happened there. Fell completely apart with the 5×5 stuff.
Mindy took off trying to find my mom after she drove away to run errands, and it took me a little bit to round her up. I was procrastinating some of the things I needed to do by doing some things I wanted to do (pulling up the blackberry weeds that have taken over so many places. Blackberries grow like weeds out here, and they take over the woods and make everything prickly, and they grow over all the walking paths, and the yard, etc., so I’m trying to de-blackberry-ify our corner of Haven Hill, to make the woods a more friendly place to be. That and I’m trying to clear out all the dead trees, fallen branches, and rid the woods of all the parasitic vines that choke out the trees and kill them/damage them in more ways than one.
Anyway, I was in the middle of that when my mom left, and I’d suggested she just leave Mindy here.
Well… Mindy wasn’t so thrilled, and wanted to follow mom (massive separation anxiety), so she headed down the driveway. I got her to come back up a few times after she charged down, but eventually, she went all the way out to DeGraff Road, and I had to get her and bring her back and put her in the back yard. Then it rained, getting the firewood wet, my jacket wet, etc.
I tried to work on the furnace and ended up causing more issues, accidentally breaking the ignitor (super brittle metal) and having a little mishap with some fire that melted some wires to some of the temperature sensors on the furnace.
Whoops.
Then, it’s been slow getting jobs, so I’ve been a little more concerned now that we’re multiple days in a row like that.
Then I found out that I’m likely going to owe several thousand dollars on something I wasn’t expecting, and that’s… okay… just hit me a little sideways, and here I find myself a little overwhelmed with everything–broken garage door, busted furnace, wet firewood, generator issues…
🙃
But hey, at the moment I’m smiling. And all this craziness?
Bring it on.
I want to be able to go through everything with a positive attitude, contagious optimism. Only way to get good at it is to have opportunities to practice.
#1. I’m grateful that I can smile right now with all that has gone on today. Don’t get me wrong, it’s been hard, and my emotions many, but I’m just kind of like, smile, shrug it off, move on–so… that’s nice. 🙂
#2. This morning I was bombarded with thoughts that I didn’t want to be entertaining, and I’m grateful to say that I’ve still been remembering what I want most and was able to zero in on my desire to have mastery over my thoughts, desires, etc. And… I was able to focus in and do much better at not giving space to the other stuff.
#3. I’m grateful that many of the blackberry plants I did have time to pull out came out relatively well, roots and all. Hopefully, that’ll help for the future in keeping them down.
#4. I’m grateful that I was able to make progress, I think, on diagnosing what’s wrong with the generator. I think I have it narrowed down to either the starter relay or the auto/off/manual switch that keeps blowing the fuse. I’m still not 100% sure, but I still have a way to dig a little deeper with figuring it out (wire in in-line fuses or breakers and see which one(s) blow/trip).
#5. I’m grateful that I have what appears to be a full day for David tomorrow. Cross your fingers.
Loves and hugs. It’s 9:40, and I’m late. Gotta run now.
Lift the World.
~ stephen
oh yeah… and bring it on. again. still.
Lift the World 