Forgive me prosebox... in Summer, summer, summer time!

… for I wrote a miserable entry and then disappeared for a while. The problem, your see, is that I don’t like it when I’m not enjoying life and so I had to do something about it. Not enjoying life is really not an option for me! And so I gave myself a talking to, decided that those things I can control must be taken in hand.

(1) I put myself on a nag ban. It has now been about 10 days and I have found out something interesting: whether I nag or not is irrelevant, it still takes the girls forever to get ready the only difference is, when I don’t nag, I don’t get stressed!

(2) I stopped trying to get to work early, if I I got there early then fab, if not I still started work within a couple of minutes of when I should. And no other TAs seemed desperate to start their Meet & Greet kids exactly on time. Ts M&G TA always arrived at the same time as us but had to gossip for ages so never got to T until 5 or 10 minutes late…

(3) I stopped to smell the flowers, although not literally. I brought back the Wow Factor attitude that I’ve always had, remembering to look around me. Spotting pretty cloud patterns, butterflies and wildflowers. Stopping to breathe.

And do you know what? I began to thoroughly enjoy work once more, the stress lessened and home life is better.

The girls haven’t changed, Rich hasn’t changed, work hasn’t changed. I changed. And I like it.