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Some days, I feel more human than others. Today was one of those days. “Chalk full,” as my Aussie-friend says, with stuff. Started when I got up with the usual dishes, laundry, breakfast and such. Thankful for it you know. Means we’re living here. Moved on to the car dealership to get some work done on my mom-van. They said thank you and promptly shuttled me and my 3 small children to the mall.
Spending time with kids at home can be too crazy for me on a good day. Spending time with the kids, without transportation, in the mall 3 days before Christmas…. Words cannot describe it so well.
Four hours later, the shuttle came back for us to collect their $730-some dollars. I said thank you and drove my kids home. This was around 2:30pm.
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We found our basement flooded. Really flooded. It is 9:41 and I just sat down. My basement is now mostly just wet.
I am tired. But still grateful. I fell a little more in love with our house today, thinking, “I will do this for our house.” “Home.” (Myuaaah!)
You can yell at things and sometimes people you love and it doesn’t have to mean you love them any less. A bang-up fight in fact can make the bond even stronger. I fought with my home today. My fingers are numb. My back hurts. After the rain I can fix the original sin causing the flooding. However, I imagine that because it is still raining, I’ll have to do this again tomorrow. There’ll be more fighting. More love.
The thing that got me through today most of all, was the commonality. Work. Work just has to be done. So human. To live is to work. There is no emotion attached unless I put it there. Work is. There is a lot of life satisfaction when we do it and don’t get all personal about it. Don’t dance around, away, negotiate it. Get it done and or don’t. Either way, you get what you worked for.
Self-Care Tip #139 – Get up and live. Work it.
Question: When have emotions, issues, temperature gotten in the way of your work? Please tell me your story.