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Happy Friday!

So Tuesday I posted a blog post and said I’d adopt the attitude of being indifferent and changing my perspective regarding this endless snowy weather.

How did I do?

I rocked it!

Okay, so this week my car got stuck in the snow, but thankfully Kevin was nearby and able to free my car from the clutches of snowmageddon.

I fell backward in a snowbank.

It was kind of fun.

I laughed and so did Kevin.

My butt got wet, but no biggie.

The next morning the driver’s door on my car wouldn’t close.

WTF?

Kevin sprayed WD40 in the latch, and he fooled around with it for a bit.

The damn door still wouldn’t close.

So I had to drive to the office while holding the door close so it wouldn’t swing open.

Long story short, I parked my car in a heated shop and a couple of hours later the door closed.

YAY!

Kevin and I figured the latch was frozen and needed to warm up but there was still the tiny concern that I lost a spring or something along those lines. Thankfully we were right.

Oh, and I had to deal with annoying ass monkeys this week.

How did I cope with everything?

I was indifferent.

The car got stuck.

Well, that sucked, but I realized it would do me no good to get pissed off or annoyed about it.

Why ruin my day over it?

So I shrugged it off.

It wasn’t like I’d be stuck there forever, right?

Falling in the snowbank.

No brainer.

That was funny.

Car door not closing.

It was annoying, however, I became indifferent about it.

Absurdities will happen.

I told myself one way or the other my car door would close again, and I crossed my fingers the problem was as simple as a frozen latch.

It was!

Regarding the unpleasant people I had to deal with this week . . .

I didn’t give them the power to kick me into a bad mood because of their shitty behavior.

So all and all, despite the daily challenges I was faced with this week, I applied what I’d learned and thought I did well.

We’re supposed to get up to 8 inches of snow on Sunday and more snow next week.

We’ll see how I do then.

Cheers!

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I think most people aren’t fond of Mondays, me included. The weekends seem to fly by and the next thing you know it’s Monday.

Really?

So I thought to myself, instead of dreading it every week, turn it into a positive.

It’s a matter of perspective, right?

We all know Mondays can totally suck, but so can the other days.

What if everything goes wrong?

You slept like crap last night.

You start to fall into a nice comfortable sleep, and then the damn alarm goes off.

You hit the snooze button several times, then finally with a loud groan and possible colorful words, you drag yourself out of bed.

It’s Monday.

*SIGH*

Where did the weekend go?

Can we have a do-over?

I wasn’t ready yet.

You go into the bathroom to brush your teeth and drop your toothbrush on the floor.

You squeeze the tube of toothpaste and it shoots out all over the frickin’ counter.

What the hell?

And this is how your Monday begins.

What a way to start the week, right?

BUT!

You have a choice.

You do.

You can roll with it, laugh at each FUBAR situation, and tell yourself you will not allow these mishaps ruin your day and week.

Honestly, absurdities will happen.

Or you can allow it to get the best of you and have a shitty day and week.

It’s your choice.

I choose to see Monday as the beginning of a new week where the goals I set for myself for that week can be accomplished. Last week I wasn’t able to accomplish all of the goals I had set for that week.

No worries.

I’ll move them to this week.

Anyway, it’s Sunday night as I write this.

In an hour I go to bed.

I was thinking about Monday and decided to write this post and share with you the mindset I recently adopted regarding the dreaded Monday.