Happy Birthday Canada!Fireworks!
Family!
Food!
Fun!
(Friday Five is 5 syllables, 5 words or 5 sentences that sum up my week or day.)
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Friday Five - Early
I'm posting my Friday Five today, since tomorrow is Canada Day and we are making our first trip to the family cottage this summer. Here it is....and I know it is more than 5 words or syllables, and they don't count as sentences. But it is 5 lines, so just go with please. :-)
Happy Birthday Canada!
Happy Birthday Canada!
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Appreciations.
Time for another Appreciations post. Here's what I'm appreciating today:
A good weather forecast.
A long weekend within days.
Tidy house.
Folded laundry.
Hot, steaming tea.
Cool, sour lemonade.
June.
July.
August.
Summer.
A good book like this.
And, of course this. :-)
Plus it is Wednesday, and not Monday anymore!
Monday, June 27, 2011
In a Funk
It's Monday again, it comes every week and every week I wish it could be Friday already. Today I'm feeling especially 'blah'. We had a busy weekend with lots of special events and I noticed that it didn't matter what we were celebrating guests spent their time complaining. Don't get me wrong here I can complain with the best of them, but somehow a celebration doesn't seem like the time or place to be airing one's woes.
Adding to me frustration was the topics under attack. I listened to various people complain about a 7-night tropical vacation, requiring a dress to be taken in two sizes due to weight loss, getting a job, their home, the menu for the celebratory meal, a gift and much more. Most of the more mundane complaints I can handle - the weather, a personality conflict, the cost of groceries, whatever - but a vacation, weight loss, a job, a FREE meal, a FREE gift???? Really, these are the worst things going on in your life. I would give almost anything to have a 2-night tropical vacation, require a dress to be taken in an inch, to have even a job interview, and guess what I enjoyed every bite of my meal that was being served to celebrate someone else's success!
This whole weekend of whining really put me in a funk. I woke up yesterday (and again today) feeling miserable, grouchy and thinking that I would taken of those complaints over some of my own. We are all taught now to be politically correct and to think before we speak, but why don't we think before we bemoan our wonderful lives? Why is it so hard to appreciate a vacation because there are bugs or to celebrate a healthy weight loss if it means be inconvenienced by an extra trip to the tailor? When we are on the other side, how come we don't realize the grass is already greener? It makes me sad and frustrated that things I'm working so hard for are taken for granted by others. However, the more important lesson is that for every complaint I make there is someone in the world wishing they had what I have. Someone wishing for a safe home, a happy family, a big grocery bill, clean clothes, safe drinking water and all the simply things in life that I take for granted. So, the only thing left to do is shake it off, work harder for the things I want in life and revel in all the things I already have!
Adding to me frustration was the topics under attack. I listened to various people complain about a 7-night tropical vacation, requiring a dress to be taken in two sizes due to weight loss, getting a job, their home, the menu for the celebratory meal, a gift and much more. Most of the more mundane complaints I can handle - the weather, a personality conflict, the cost of groceries, whatever - but a vacation, weight loss, a job, a FREE meal, a FREE gift???? Really, these are the worst things going on in your life. I would give almost anything to have a 2-night tropical vacation, require a dress to be taken in an inch, to have even a job interview, and guess what I enjoyed every bite of my meal that was being served to celebrate someone else's success!
This whole weekend of whining really put me in a funk. I woke up yesterday (and again today) feeling miserable, grouchy and thinking that I would taken of those complaints over some of my own. We are all taught now to be politically correct and to think before we speak, but why don't we think before we bemoan our wonderful lives? Why is it so hard to appreciate a vacation because there are bugs or to celebrate a healthy weight loss if it means be inconvenienced by an extra trip to the tailor? When we are on the other side, how come we don't realize the grass is already greener? It makes me sad and frustrated that things I'm working so hard for are taken for granted by others. However, the more important lesson is that for every complaint I make there is someone in the world wishing they had what I have. Someone wishing for a safe home, a happy family, a big grocery bill, clean clothes, safe drinking water and all the simply things in life that I take for granted. So, the only thing left to do is shake it off, work harder for the things I want in life and revel in all the things I already have!
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