Inspiration

Happy Labor Day!

The prayer of a good person has a powerful effect.
     ---James 5:16

I listen to inspirational pod casts.  In one I heard that boundary-less families make family members feel like they are responsible for others' emotions.  I grew in in this crucible.   I have learned differently.

Back to my word of the year...abide.  I will abide with God and I will choose daily mindfulness.  Being present and grateful  is something I am working on.  I do not have the power to control,  help, fix others.  It also means they are not responsible to me and my expectations are not too high.

And I also heard that young people who have family trauma, like addiction or neglect, choose to feel like victims.  Feeling like a victim can be a cycle.  Being a victim is another manifestation of or obstacle to humility.  I have no self esteem, so let me show you how smart, pretty, successful, bad-assed I am...No room for humiity in that cycle...

I am grateful for electricity, and for ac.  It is still 90s here.  Uggggh.

Yesterday we were on a beautiful golf course.   This evening I am in a disgusting extended stay...evidently they are with limited electricity and  no hot water or cable...but at we still have electricity.

Update on the Extended Stay Saga

Rained almost 2 inches Sunday afternoon into night and was still rainy Monday morning.  I have learned to walk the dog before I do hair and make up, then come in and finish getting ready for work.  DH walks the boy dog separately.  He is getting old and slow and does not want to walk as much as the girl.  So, I walk the girl and then get ready for work.

Work was uneventful.  They hired 2 more temps to work on my project, but no one mentioned to me (I work on a separate floor and its not like I see anyone on my team).  My work is still steady, but we are winding down I thought.  I just have no idea of the magnitude or implications.  I just hope I don't have to train them.  I feel like I don't know enough.  I just do few very specific parts of the project.

After work, it was still rainy, so I knew I would not walk.  And I was hungry and restless.  So we went out to eat with our friends B & B.  We go to this Asian buffet place.  We used to really like it, they have suchi rolls and hibachi, typical Chinese, shrimp, prime rib, etc.  But when I was having lots of issues with my tummy, I would eat various combinations to see if it helped...just sushi, just salad bar, just hibachi, just meat and veggies...even just fruit one time.  Well, we have pretty much decided this place must just bathe the food in MSG.  After we eat there, we feel bloated and sluggish and last night I drank 3 large glasses of water and woke up every 2 hours or so.  It is crazy.

Back to the hotel saga...evidently the police did arrest a man in the hotel we are staying in...it was in the 5 and 6 oclock news stories.  He had a wife and kids and checked in Sunday and when the police knocked on the door, he jumped out the 3rd floor window onto the awning below where he was shot with a police bean bag and fell on down to the ground where he was apprehended.  Crazy.  Oh, and this morning the elevator is broken and as I was leaving at 6:30 a man and a woman were yelling at each other because the elevator was broken and so we all have to use the side doors which require a key and sometimes don't work with a key...we gotta get out of this place!