Off to the North Tomorrow
1 Comments Published by Oh Wayward One on 28 May 2008 at 5/28/2008 10:17:00 am.
Sometimes I do that thing that everyone does from time to time.... swimming in a pool of self pity and negativity. I think back to all the times in the last month that I've been whinging about being too busy and having too much on my shoulders and blah blah blah blah. Yeah welcome to owning your own business, Pitiful Patty.
Today I was writing a message to Marshy and before the end of it, it became clear that I need an attitude adjustment (but not the kind where your mom takes you into the bathroom at grandma's house and holds her hand over your mouth while she spanks the crap out of you and you come out holding your bottom in your hands).
Essentially through the magic of writing an email I realized that all the things that have been bogging me down lately (work, moving office, new employees, studying, etc) are all things that are just plain Catalysts of Good in my life, leading the way to Planet Happiness in the future, and that I should just keep my head down and bear it for the remainder of this dip in the road.
Fer example: all the new jobs that are weighing me down at work are effectively what's responsible for allowing us to move ($$$) to the new place which is SUCH a nice space - I like it more and more every time we're holed up in there at 8pm painting walls so I cant complain about that. And to be honest I'm really enjoying the course that I'm studying PLUS I'm using everything I'm learning already, so I can't complain about that either, AND the new kids at the office are darlings who absorb a good chunk of my workload and we all get along great...
To conclude, if I could just get this one thing done at work that is looming over my head for the last month, I would be in unusually good form, I think. So I'm going to make an effort to get that thing wrapped up as soon as humanly possible.
In the meantime, we got a job up in the Rip-off Delta and the Mr. and I have hijacked the site visit so that we can go up there, poke around on the job tomorrow and then spend the rest of the weekend relaxing in Maun. The first night we're staying at an old fishing camp on the panhandle of the delta, and then over the weekend at a semi-swanky (actually, low-end for the Expensivanko) lodge on a small game farm. While most tourists that go there take these little boat trips into the delta and get to watch lions killing and eating buffalo and all that NatGeo stuff, we're electing to save our Pula (um, $800 USD per night no thanks) and stay outside of the actual Delta, with the birds and dime-a-dozen antelope. Sleep all morning and read a lot and take a few walks & drink wine on the veranda, etc.
We had a braai at our place for 10 this weekend. It's been at least 6 or so months since I had to cook for that many people. But it went off great. I made real yankee (yellow) potato salad and pork steaks (which NO ONE here EVER puts on the braai) marinated in all that KC Masterpiece yumminess that my aunt & uncle imported for me from back home. And boerewors of course. It was all delicious and Mary cleaned everything up so I didn't have to contend with every single dish in my pantry being bbq sauced and every wine glass I own being drunk out of.
Which is another reason I'm so glad I have this weekend totally and utterly OFF.
Today I was writing a message to Marshy and before the end of it, it became clear that I need an attitude adjustment (but not the kind where your mom takes you into the bathroom at grandma's house and holds her hand over your mouth while she spanks the crap out of you and you come out holding your bottom in your hands).
Essentially through the magic of writing an email I realized that all the things that have been bogging me down lately (work, moving office, new employees, studying, etc) are all things that are just plain Catalysts of Good in my life, leading the way to Planet Happiness in the future, and that I should just keep my head down and bear it for the remainder of this dip in the road.
Fer example: all the new jobs that are weighing me down at work are effectively what's responsible for allowing us to move ($$$) to the new place which is SUCH a nice space - I like it more and more every time we're holed up in there at 8pm painting walls so I cant complain about that. And to be honest I'm really enjoying the course that I'm studying PLUS I'm using everything I'm learning already, so I can't complain about that either, AND the new kids at the office are darlings who absorb a good chunk of my workload and we all get along great...
To conclude, if I could just get this one thing done at work that is looming over my head for the last month, I would be in unusually good form, I think. So I'm going to make an effort to get that thing wrapped up as soon as humanly possible.
In the meantime, we got a job up in the Rip-off Delta and the Mr. and I have hijacked the site visit so that we can go up there, poke around on the job tomorrow and then spend the rest of the weekend relaxing in Maun. The first night we're staying at an old fishing camp on the panhandle of the delta, and then over the weekend at a semi-swanky (actually, low-end for the Expensivanko) lodge on a small game farm. While most tourists that go there take these little boat trips into the delta and get to watch lions killing and eating buffalo and all that NatGeo stuff, we're electing to save our Pula (um, $800 USD per night no thanks) and stay outside of the actual Delta, with the birds and dime-a-dozen antelope. Sleep all morning and read a lot and take a few walks & drink wine on the veranda, etc.
We had a braai at our place for 10 this weekend. It's been at least 6 or so months since I had to cook for that many people. But it went off great. I made real yankee (yellow) potato salad and pork steaks (which NO ONE here EVER puts on the braai) marinated in all that KC Masterpiece yumminess that my aunt & uncle imported for me from back home. And boerewors of course. It was all delicious and Mary cleaned everything up so I didn't have to contend with every single dish in my pantry being bbq sauced and every wine glass I own being drunk out of.
Which is another reason I'm so glad I have this weekend totally and utterly OFF.
Ask me about a new low-price-for-summer on beagley bassety fur. Happy birthday to me!