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So, Monday will feel like Christmas
This past weekend was challenging for me. I had rumors at work that I had to temper and dealing with the parents going on a cruise. Oh how I want to be going with them.
But everything is coming down to a BUSY week this week for me.
I wanted to go to Weekend at Mookies with some of the blogger brethren BUT I am covering the Grand Prize giveaway that I have to do for work so Fri/Sat is out. Sun doesn’t make sense to go or I’d be there.
So as I was saying…
ever since Friday I’d been walking through a minefield.
My friend contacted me and is waiting for me to deliver the first couple chapters of Project Y so she can start illustrations for the project. We were supposed to find a way of getting with each other this weekend but it was impossible for us to connect. I’ve been waiting to move Project Y forward, and I’m trying to be patient but it is hard for me to be patient.
I saw Amanda this weekend, she was stressing over a project that was due this morning. She is so brilliant because of the work that she can put out at the last minute. But she sacrifices sleep, and punishes herself for that high, the brilliance that results from when she writes something at the last minute.
I told her that she needed to have her professor give her an earlier than the class due date and she agrees. But there she was at the IHOP at 2 in the morning waiting for me to give her that encouragement that she needs. It felt good to try and get her going.
Friday was a nightmare, just way too much to do and too little time to get everything done. After getting work obligations done, I came home and sat down on my couch and tried to just lay down. It was so comfotable. So relaxing. Then the phone calls came, the offers to go out, to go “have fun” but I was having none of that. The phone calls came to start up more tragedy and drama from friends who thought I should have started going out with person G. But the thing is as nice as we looked and as cute as we looked as a couple, there was NOTHING in common for us. So that turned into the “You’ll end up alone. Ms. Perfect isn’t out there. You just going to have to settle with Ms Right Now.” But thats’ not me. That’s not how I roll.
Saturday I was up early and going all day. I did however took the time out after my first remote to go get a book from Barnes and Noble and sit at Carinos and get a Salmon Salad. Funny thing is that Before I could eat most of it. But Saturday I could barely eat 1/4 of it. My stomach must be shrinking which is great news.
My friend Melissa had the stomach banding sugery and she has already lost 30 pounds. Way to go melissa. Keep up the hard work and I’m praying for you dear.
After finishing half of the book in the three hour break I headed out to the Speedway and just sat back and relaxed. I was kinda worried about the rain but as many people know, the Lubbock Weather Bubble protected us from anything but lots of cold wind.
I watched some good racing, including a terrifying head on crash into the wall. Nobody was hurt.and the only thing hurt was a 14 year olds ego as dad dressed him down.
I got back to the house just in time to be caught in the middle of drama between two friends.
He said , she said that turned into me telling them both to go away!
I went inside and started up the computer playing some cards with Riggstad and trying to get little stuff like laundry done.
But then the phone calls came. “I thought you were my bud, how could you take sides with her? ” , “How could you take sides with that jackass?”
Funny thing is as bad as these two seem to argue, I can see them getting married in six months. They have that firery love that starts with them fighting over something totally MORONIC and end up in bed with make up sex. Disaster waiting to happen.
And Saturday night I was talking to my good friend Zeem. He was talking to me about attitude. And he got me thinking. Maybe Instant Tragedy shouldn’t be the name of the blog. I’ve been stuck of a negativity rut. Now I will still remain IT for everything, but I am going to try my damnest to try and be not just realistic but optomistic in the future. Yes, people have burned me, yes they have hurt me, but I will have to not say it was destined to be Tragedy. I have to see that there are happiness in the world and I am trying my best to do that. Also I will refuse to mention peoples name in the blog unless I am sure they wouldn’t mind. Too much drama comes up form he said she said conversations that its time to not go dark , but dim the lights of my content. Zeem is an incredible man my friends and if you haven’t talked to him, please go to his website and leave him a comment. There is Obi-Wan Kenobi wisdom and though he doesn’t post much, you must respect the man who can see the forest from the trees. Thank Zeem for your friendship.
Sunday was a blur. I finished up Laundry and was dealing with issues from Project X, but it seems to be coming together. there are some things that I can’t help but be nervous about, but what can I do? You have to put the best product forward and hope that the people will want it. I think the best line of the weekend was when I was talking to Riggstad and told him I was finishing up laundry. “Oh shit!” he said as I reminded him to do his laundry that he had promised his wife.
I cleaned up the house a bit and had to go outside to fix the fench. Yup, I may have to forgo the tile work to fix the fence first. I was putting up replacement wood and renailing boards up to their connectors. It was a great workout.
While I was outside pounding the fence, my friend S called. I used to walk with her and my best female friend K every night last summer, but when it turned cold we just stopped walking. We got caught up on the last couple of months and it looks like we are going to get together tonight to walk a couple of miles. I am so happy to have my walking partner back. Things that I have let fall away from my life have slowly started to fall back in my life. I truly believe that eveeryone that is in your life for a reason. There is meaning for everyone who you think has darkened your life. For every person that you think absolutely is elitist and is an asshole in your life, they serve a purpose. What that purpose is you may never know. Just know that ever stranger you smile at may be blessed with a change of path in that life due to that smile.
Even the people who have hurt my feelings have a place in my life. I might not forgive them initially but in the end time heals all wounds.
So after the pounding I got to get more stuff done on Project Y and it felt good to get the feeling and the promise of something that you have dreamed on for years and years to finally bet a couple years from coming true.
I finished my work on Project Y and moved over to Project X. As we get closer to the first deadline, I am getting more anal about the final product. This product will have my name on it and its a matter of pride that I don’t put out half assed work. I finished up a little past Midnight and talked again to Zeem about the weekend and how stressful it was.
“So Monday will feel like Christmas.”
And here it is Monday.
And the past is past. I won’t forgive those who hut me yet, but I will deal with today with smiling eyes.
Because it is Christmas. Today IS the present.
Have a Profitable and Fun day!
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