I am finished with Monday.  I have had enough of it.  It hasn’t been bad, really.  Actually, I’ve done fairly well keeping busy and motivated.  And then, around 4 o’clock, I hit some weird wall.  It hit me like a Mack truck.  And now it’s bum city.  I am totally ‘bumming’.

I don’t really feel depressed, but, I feel weird.  So I figure, you know what?  Why fight it?  I’m gonna take some ‘me time’.  Embrace the bummin’.  Yeah, that’s my new motto.

I just got two new mags in the mail - Revenue and Working Mother.  And I am working my way through my new book, You on a Diet.  So I’ll take those to bed with me, and maybe pop a movie in the laptop.  I’m gonna get some popcorn and nice, cold Sprite and just go to bed.

Hey - I’ll wake up refreshed and feeling good for Tuesday that way, for sure!  I mean, who couldn’t use some hanging out, relaxing in bed time, right?

And I’m excited to read Revenue - it is my newest subscription and it looks really good.  You can check them out here: Revenue Today.

Ok, so ya’ll have a lovely rest of your Monday.  I’m calling mine over! 

Because I’m really, really feeling like this is Monday. In a bad way. Nothing is working. And I mean, absolutely nothing, is working.

It is now 1:30pm and my kids will be home in just over an hour, and I’ve accomplished almost nothing. It’s one of those ‘one step forward, seventeen steps back’ kind of days.I think the most important thing for me to learn on days like these is not to lose my cool, and not to let all this nonsense get me upset. It’s so easy to get so caught up in it, and get carried away with anger and frustration.

The more comfortable, and level-headed, way to approach this day is just to throw my hands up in the air, and say, “Oh well!” It is what it is. You know?

I could feel myself starting to get upset, and my chest getting tight, and so I decided to just post about it. And when things are getting this way it so easily could get worse. When I get all worked up about it, I keep pushing. And when I keep pushing, trying to force things to work like they are supposed to - things get worse, sometimes a lot worse. And then, of course, when the kids walk in the door, I will bite all of their sweet little heads off.

So I am not going to do any of that today. I am just going to accept that today is just not the most productive of days, and do with it what I can. The walls will not come crashing in around us if I give in and just relax.

I so badly want to get focused and organized, with my work at home stuff, my housework, and with managing my kids’ needs. And I’ve been wanting to get started working on it since the kids started back to school. But one thing after another keeps getting in my way.

So I guess I will have to just sit back and relax and keep trying to take baby steps towards my goals.

Whew - thanks for helping talk me out of having a grown-up temper tantrum - I feel a lot better now!