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Canada Steve monday meanderings......
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MONDAY MEANDERINGS...no, not meandering while running...stupid foot/ankle. I am still wounded but I see the light at the end of the tunnel. I could barely walk on Friday but, although still sore, today things are feeling almost run ready.
Unfortunately, things are not going along as I had hoped. I received an email from a Prince in Tunisia a few weeks back. Apparently, he was having some sort crisis and was needing to leave the country due to some sort of political uprising. He is very wealthy and promised to reward me handsomely if I could help him out of a jam. Naturally, I transferred my saving account information over to him so that he could fly to North America and freedom. I was really counting on the millions he had promised but it now appears that he has fallen off of the face of the earth. I haven't heard from him and his email account has been deleted. Oh well. I guess I am stuck working...so much for early retirement.
Work has been a bit of a bear lately. (And apparently I have been too.) I have been working crazy hours under a bit of stress (you know, the people that yell at you for not meeting insane deadlines and expectations and co-workers that are all stressed out because they are under the same pressures so they are snippy and crabby.) Unfortunately, I guess I am a bit of an ass and I have been taking some of my grouchiness home with me at the end of the day. This weekend my nine year old told me that I have been a grouch lately. My six year old agreed. I was just lucky that my oldest wasn't there...then it would have been three against one. The worst part is that it is all true. I have been a big crab some days. I hate that...it's like turning into something that you swore that you would never be. Sometimes it takes a nine year old to show you the way.
Although I could not start my week running, I have started it with a new attitude. You know how water beads up on a duck's feathers? I am that duck and work pressure is water. I must realize that I can't possibly live up to impossible expectations (nobody can.) So I will work hard during work hours and the rest of the time I am just not going to give a shit. No sense stressing about things out of your control.
It's funny because I always have this philosophy but I suppose I just haven't been living up to it lately. So this weekend I turned over my new leaf...and I am a duck...and my kids find me much more fun to be around. Hope all is well in DM land. Lunch is over - gotta get back at it...I will check in with y'all later.
Damn, sorry to hear the Prince bailed on you. When my check for USD1000000$ comes through from the exiled long lost cousin who got robbed in London I'll break you off a few bucks. Cool?
10 months ago • Like • 3 people
BTW, I love reading these posts Steve. Keep them coming.
10 months ago • Like • 1 person
Who knew you had a grouchy side. Good for the you and your new leaf.
10 months ago • Like • 2 people
Steve, I really love your Monday Meanderings. I'm going to have a t-shirt made for you that says "quack quack, motherduckers." Sorry to hear about that long lost cash money. I'd spot you but I need to buy more bacon.
10 months ago • Like • 3 people
Who needs cash anyway? At least you are aware when you are a grouch. I am a pain continually when I don't run so have full sympathy. Run soon. Run strong. Run fast.
10 months ago • Like • 1 person
Welcome to DM Mr. duck! There are many of us just like you here and I for one thank you for pointing this out so that I can make sure and not take any grumpiness home.
Have a Great day Steve.
10 months ago • Like • 1 person
Great write up Steve. Thats the best possible attitude in my opinion.
10 months ago • Like • 1 person
Go Duckie go! :)
10 months ago • Like • 1 person
Leaving it at work is easier said than done. If you're like me not being able to run makes it alot worse. There are days when my family begs me to run just so my claws will recede. Sorry you're under that kind of stress but good for you for realizing its a problem and addressing it. You are only one person and can only do so much. Hope things are better soon. Hang in there!
10 months ago • Like • 1 person
hang in there Steve!!
10 months ago • Like • 1 person
come on get off that couch and go for a run, or better yet get a bike, I need to know how the roster is doing, get better soon
10 months ago • Like • 1 person
Wow, what a coincidence! I had a Tunisian prince email me as well. I haven't yet received my money either and now I can't contact him. Maybe they are brothers, maybe they didn't make it from their country alive....
10 months ago • Like • 1 person
You're a quack. And, I love you.
10 months ago • Like • 1 person
I've always thought of you to be a bit of a quack. (thank you! I'll be here all week)
10 months ago • Like • 1 person
Is that a light at the end of the tunnel or an oncoming train? I hope you sent the kids to their rooms and gave them some well deserved punishment :) Good luck with that foot/ankle and with finding your Prince Charming.
10 months ago • Like • 1 person
Hope the foot feels better soon. Keep quacking.
10 months ago • Like • 1 person
Quack quack Steve. I think we could all have our inner animal be a duck sometimes.
10 months ago • Like • 1 person
You are a roller coaster ride my friend. Hope you feel better all around.
10 months ago • Like • 1 person
So, you're turning a new feather not a new leaf. Don't be so hard on yourself. We are human and we all get grumpy. (I just call it PMS) And, I've gotten those EMails, too. Really? Does anyone fall for it? I hope not.
10 months ago • Like • 1 person
Oh hells yeah gonna roll right off your back - awesome Steve !! Me heart you :-)
10 months ago • Like • 1 person
Thanks everyone..actually, I feel pretty fantastic...except for my foot but I think I am almost ready to get it back into action and then all will be good. quack quack motherduckers...I like it, Taryn.
10 months ago • Like • 3 people
I am gettting that ducky knd of attitude, too. :)
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My prince was an old lady from Nigeria, and she too disappeared as soon as she got my personal info :-) Seriously, it is true that work has a tendency to get in the way of happiness. When you feel overloaded, think of us, your DM buddies, having a great time running. riding or doing whatever sport we enjoy. You will be so mad at being inside that you will work even more :-)
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Duck. Yeah, that's a good visual. It's hard NOT to buy into the stress when everyone else is stressed out and you don't have your usual ways of getting your zen. I think you're doing great. And I love Taryn's t-shirt suggestion too!
10 months ago • Like • 1 person
I get grumpy when I can't run, I need that outlet. I love your attitude! Everything will be just ducky.
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Hang in there and you will look back and be proud of how you turned things around....next thing you know, you'll be writing a book and helping others do the same! Love the duck!!
10 months ago • Like • 1 person
Sorry things are tough at work! Home life is the healing time.
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Hey Steve. Sorry I'm late getting to check on you. Sounds like we are in similar situations: hurt, working crazy, and trying to leave it at the office. Good luck. At least you realize what's going on, so that's the first step to fixing it. I hope that there is a cycle to your work and that someday soon you'll be in a low period and can recover. I hope that Ankle is better soon too!! Sorry I missed what happened. Hope it's nothing serious. Good luck buddy!!
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Steve, Steve. I got an email too like that. Our money is somewhere together. Hang in there. It sucks so much to not be able to do what we love to get our fix, do be the best we can be for our kids. but you have come so far and will keep going cause it's who you are. You got this. Kids know how to really open our eyes. It tells who you are that they can come to you with observations such as these. :)
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Sometimes we need to run to deal with the "stuff" in life, sometimes the "stuff" in life appears to increase when our bodies need the rest. Sometimes our leaves turn and our ducks quack and all is right with the world. And our kids are ALWAYS right. Except when negotiating bedtime. Heal up, Bead up, and Quack on!
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