I read an article today that really resonated with me. It summarized the principles in the book The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz. These agreements are not easy by any stretch of the imagination, but these are items that I am going to strive to put into practice immediately, as I know they would make my life less painful and mentally taxing a lot of the time.
The article was written by Mary Kelly-Williams, M.A., a contributor of Stepmom magazine.
1. Be Impeccable With Your Word ~ No slander, gossip, maligning or being catty or unkind towards another. While it may feel good at the time, ultimately it hurts our hearts and souls wasting precious time on disparaging another human being. We look and feel better taking the higher road.
2. Don't Take Anything Personally ~ Because it rarely is about us. It is often the other person projecting what they think we represent (or don't) when it comes to their relationship with us.
3. Don't Make Assumptions ~ We tend to put people in boxes and can be stubborn about letting them out. When we assume something we react to the assumption, not the reality.
4. Do The Best You Can ~ On any given day, do the best you can, with the capacity you have for that day. The capacity is ever-changing. We are human.
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Monday, October 3, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
A Disaster Of Sorts
I neglected to tell you all about my disaster yesterday, which actually was precipitated by a most awful weekend with BF ill, me getting no stitching time, and also spending the better part of Sunday traveling back and forth to my mom's to use her scanner because mine quit working (I ordered a new one already) and to get Microsoft Word software because a certain application for BF would only open in that software. Did I mention I did NO STITCHING ALL WEEKEND???? Actually not since Thursday or Friday, but I digress...
Monday comes. Pfftttt. Lots of work, which has been 57 kinds of hideousness lately. Filling in a lot of the testimony, attorneys who whisper so I am listening to items three and four times, witnesses who speak over the attorneys so you have to go back and listen yet again to decipher what is said. And then it happens, two minutes before I stop work for the day...I present THE TIMELINE:
5:58 p.m. The Daughter goes home and I begin wrapping up for the day. I turn in my chair and promptly knock my 1/8th full glass of Crystal Light Fruit Punch INTO MY LAPTOP KEYBOARD!!!!!!!!!!
5:59 p.m. My computer shuts down and won't turn back on.
6:00 p.m. Cue me going temporarily insane and start screaming and flailing and running to get a towel to try to sop up said Crystal Light.
6:01 p.m. Cue BF coming in to see what the fuss is about, taking one look at my face, and hearing my rant, which includes expletives and a loud, loud voice, and hightailing it out of my office and back downstairs.
6:02 p.m. I call my co-worker, who is a complete lifesaver, and who tells me to put a fan on my laptop for two hours at least. All it needs to do is dry out, she says, while I sit and try to calm my hyperventilating.
6:03 p.m. I put my laptop in front of a large fan we have downstairs AND I LEAVE IT THERE ALL NIGHT.
6:04 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. I can do nothing but sit and simmer and make nasty comments about the commercials on TV, i.e., yeah, right, NO ONE hugs their dentist. Get the eff out of here!!! Or that was THE stupidest commercial EVER. Oh, and I also played Words With Friends with VegasJilly, a nice distraction.
9:00 p.m. Bedtime. I decide to start a new book on my iPad. A few minutes of sweet relief. I say a long prayer before going to sleep that my computer is all right in the morning.
This morning when I awoke at the wee crack of dawn, feeling a bit better and rested, I plugged my computer in, and IT WORKED!!!! I have been on it all day and it has been fine. Thank you, God. And thank you, co-worker. When I tell you yesterday was the most horrific, awful day I had had in a very long time, it was an understatement. It also prompted me to purchase Carbonite, an online backup program, to make sure all of my stuff on my computer is backed up. When I get a new one, all I have to do is sign on and restore the files.
I have a massage tonight at 8:30 p.m. CANNOT WAIT!!!
In peace, love, and stitches,
Danielle
Monday comes. Pfftttt. Lots of work, which has been 57 kinds of hideousness lately. Filling in a lot of the testimony, attorneys who whisper so I am listening to items three and four times, witnesses who speak over the attorneys so you have to go back and listen yet again to decipher what is said. And then it happens, two minutes before I stop work for the day...I present THE TIMELINE:
5:58 p.m. The Daughter goes home and I begin wrapping up for the day. I turn in my chair and promptly knock my 1/8th full glass of Crystal Light Fruit Punch INTO MY LAPTOP KEYBOARD!!!!!!!!!!
5:59 p.m. My computer shuts down and won't turn back on.
6:00 p.m. Cue me going temporarily insane and start screaming and flailing and running to get a towel to try to sop up said Crystal Light.
6:01 p.m. Cue BF coming in to see what the fuss is about, taking one look at my face, and hearing my rant, which includes expletives and a loud, loud voice, and hightailing it out of my office and back downstairs.
6:02 p.m. I call my co-worker, who is a complete lifesaver, and who tells me to put a fan on my laptop for two hours at least. All it needs to do is dry out, she says, while I sit and try to calm my hyperventilating.
6:03 p.m. I put my laptop in front of a large fan we have downstairs AND I LEAVE IT THERE ALL NIGHT.
6:04 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. I can do nothing but sit and simmer and make nasty comments about the commercials on TV, i.e., yeah, right, NO ONE hugs their dentist. Get the eff out of here!!! Or that was THE stupidest commercial EVER. Oh, and I also played Words With Friends with VegasJilly, a nice distraction.
9:00 p.m. Bedtime. I decide to start a new book on my iPad. A few minutes of sweet relief. I say a long prayer before going to sleep that my computer is all right in the morning.
This morning when I awoke at the wee crack of dawn, feeling a bit better and rested, I plugged my computer in, and IT WORKED!!!! I have been on it all day and it has been fine. Thank you, God. And thank you, co-worker. When I tell you yesterday was the most horrific, awful day I had had in a very long time, it was an understatement. It also prompted me to purchase Carbonite, an online backup program, to make sure all of my stuff on my computer is backed up. When I get a new one, all I have to do is sign on and restore the files.
I have a massage tonight at 8:30 p.m. CANNOT WAIT!!!
In peace, love, and stitches,
Danielle
Friday, January 28, 2011
Powerless
As those of you know who are my Facebook friends, we had a major snowstorm Wednesday night that caused our power to go out from Wednesday 11pm until THIS MORNING at 4:20 a.m.!!!!!!!!!!! So, random snippets that have been coursing through my brain during that time...
1. We missed both Wednesday night and Thursday night's American Idol because the lights started flickering off and on incessantly about five minutes into the show on Wednesday night, and we have Tivo, so once it flicks off, it takes about five minutes to come back on, so we just said forget it and went to bed.
2. Not having Internet sucked. There is no other way to say it. I am now catching up on blogs and various other things I read/do on a daily basis, namely this blog. My streak of posting every day was RUINED because I was not able to get online yesterday. Boo! Hiss!
3. I don't know how those people on Survivor don't eat for 39 days. Let me tell you, I had a few Doritos all day until BF returned home at 3pm. The Big Mac I had when he took me out never tasted so good. Nor the large hot mocha, because, yes, I also had had no coffee all day! BF was able to go to work because he has a four-wheel drive truck, but our street had not been plowed until right before he came home. I told BF that no electricity + no coffee = evil Danielle!! Ha ha.
4. No electricity also meant no stitching. So, no updated pics.
5. And no shower!
6. But it did mean I was able to play a ton of Scrabble games on my iPad. I have now learned words I never knew existed in the English language.
7. Today is my catch-up day, as work was cancelled because of the lingering effects of the storm. I am doing laundry, showering, banking, e-mails, blogs, and some stitching. I am going to watch The Other Boleyn Girl I think. I have it on DVD. A great movie. Or more episodes of the Sopranos.
8. Oh, yeah, I also finished that book I started the other day, Crossing. What a disappointment! It was suspenseful until the end and then blah... At least I finished a book this year. My first for this year.
Thank you, God for turning our electricity back on, as it was not slated to come on until Saturday at 11:30 p.m. And also, the kids finally return back to school on a two-hour delay after having Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday off. I hear the cries of jubilation from every parent in our county. LOL.
In peace, love, and stitches,
Danielle
1. We missed both Wednesday night and Thursday night's American Idol because the lights started flickering off and on incessantly about five minutes into the show on Wednesday night, and we have Tivo, so once it flicks off, it takes about five minutes to come back on, so we just said forget it and went to bed.
2. Not having Internet sucked. There is no other way to say it. I am now catching up on blogs and various other things I read/do on a daily basis, namely this blog. My streak of posting every day was RUINED because I was not able to get online yesterday. Boo! Hiss!
3. I don't know how those people on Survivor don't eat for 39 days. Let me tell you, I had a few Doritos all day until BF returned home at 3pm. The Big Mac I had when he took me out never tasted so good. Nor the large hot mocha, because, yes, I also had had no coffee all day! BF was able to go to work because he has a four-wheel drive truck, but our street had not been plowed until right before he came home. I told BF that no electricity + no coffee = evil Danielle!! Ha ha.
4. No electricity also meant no stitching. So, no updated pics.
5. And no shower!
6. But it did mean I was able to play a ton of Scrabble games on my iPad. I have now learned words I never knew existed in the English language.
7. Today is my catch-up day, as work was cancelled because of the lingering effects of the storm. I am doing laundry, showering, banking, e-mails, blogs, and some stitching. I am going to watch The Other Boleyn Girl I think. I have it on DVD. A great movie. Or more episodes of the Sopranos.
8. Oh, yeah, I also finished that book I started the other day, Crossing. What a disappointment! It was suspenseful until the end and then blah... At least I finished a book this year. My first for this year.
Thank you, God for turning our electricity back on, as it was not slated to come on until Saturday at 11:30 p.m. And also, the kids finally return back to school on a two-hour delay after having Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday off. I hear the cries of jubilation from every parent in our county. LOL.
In peace, love, and stitches,
Danielle
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