2021-02-11 — Iced In ❄

Well… it changed from being a choice today to being the reality.

We’re iced in.

And that means no worky for me. 🙃 I was gonna do just a single battery job today, but I couldn’t even get safely down our driveway, and with temperatures looking like they’re gonna be the coldest I’ve experienced in Arkansas to date… I think (we’ve got a negative as a low in the forecast), don’t think that ice is gonna be melting any time soon, so… the week off I was planning on taking, unless I got easy battery job calls, which would be my only jobs, has just turned into a week off… without even doing the easy peasy stuff.

So…

Here I am. It’s 7:39. I made a commitment this morning that I was going to try to wear my body and my brain out today, so that I could be in bed and tired enough to fall asleep, so that I could get back on my desired schedule.

So… I’m on course. Cross your fingers. 😊

I’ve been choosing peace and happiness and faith and hope again today, even when some really challenging tests to all four of those things came up today. I chose to be positive anyway, to face forward, look ahead to a bright future.

Yay!

I think I’m growing. 😊

I’ve been noticing little things here and there that are actually big things. I’ve already mentioned them, but I’m grateful for them. Same things as I mentioned yesterday–increasing in patience, compassion, understanding, faith, hope, optimism. It’s lovely. 😊

#1. I’m grateful to have made some progress on the trails today (and yes, I did go out last night and chop down the forest in the dark late at night 🙃). I worked mostly cutting up logs to line the trails with. Making decent progress there. It’s amazing how many dead trees I’ve taken down. Soooooooo many. But it’s gonna be a safer, healthier forest. killing the vines that kill the trees, cutting out all the dead wood to help save building structures should a fire break out in the forest. Progress is being made. 😊

#2. I’m grateful to my mom for reminding me about the red light on my computer. I’m trying to get to bed by 9, so it’s not very good to have my red light only turn on at 8. So I set it to go on at 6. Hopefully, that’ll help my brain go to bed better.

#3. I’m so grateful to be upbeat and full of faith and optimism, making good choices, healthy choices.

#4. I’m grateful that I made the choices to take this week pretty much entirely off before I was forced to. It’s nice to know I chose it and wasn’t just forced into it.

#5. I’m grateful for challenges and struggles and hard things that allow me to grow. Today, I faced some really hard things, and I’m grateful to say, I handled them not just okay, but… and I hope it doesn’t come across as arrogant, but I handled them gracefully. I’m grateful. I can be a complainer (focusing on the negative), and a worrier (focusing on the “bad” that might happen).

#6. I’m grateful that I’m ahead of the game right now. It’s 7:57, and I’m wrapping up this journal entry. Wahoo. 😊

Thought of the Day: “Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.” – Samuel Smiles