Hi, friends!
How is your week going?
Today I had one of those interesting attitude adjustments where I just shifted perspective in a delightful way. We’ve been in a reorg at work and Monday I got told I was taking over a project (that honestly I don’t want due to the personalities involved), Tuesday I was asked from my boss to be heavily involved in another new project. And today – if you’re sensing a trend – another new (and BIG) project.
So this morning I was definitely dealing with some anxiety over all this work. And then right around 1pm I had the mental shift of *oh, I get to offload working on almost everything else I do now because we’re not working with the current groups any more* and that anxiety just dissipated. Don’t get me wrong, I still will have a fuckton of work. But the groups that make my days a stupid mess won’t be ones I have to manage any more! My attitude just went from “this fucking blows” to “wow this is exciting” in a matter of minutes. đ
Sometimes itâs just a matter of being ready for a new set of problems.
I helped a friend demo an entire bathroom in 6 hours and am completely exhausted. Swinging a hammer, breaking tiles, ripping out sheet rock, getting covered in toxic insulation, and ripping out multiple layers of flooring stacked on top of each other. I will not be up late tonight and need a drink now!
I just became grateful to have no friends đ
Friends stopped asking me to help them move when I threw a fit when too many of them weren’t packed enough to actually move their stuff on moving day.
Luckily this also means no one has needed me to do that level of physical labor in a few years.
You may not believe me, but demo is very therapeutic. Your whole body may ache, and you’ll be blowing black shit out of your nose for days, but I’ll bet you feel damn good
I am totally blowing black shit out of my nose & whole body hurts. Â It can be therapeutic for sure but that for me is using a sledge hammer. Â We had to be a little more conservative & cleaning up just beats me up. Â We are back tomorrow prepping it for new tile, flooring after we rip out the shower pan. Â Old houses scare me & make me feel shitty after ripping into walls closed for 50+ years.