how are you feeling today?

I have a confession to make.  A couple of nights ago, when I had about 100 pages of text to read and a PowerPoint presentation on Situational Leadership to revise and finalize, my daughter showed me one of her recent Lego acquisitions.

I thought it would end would with a simple "show and tell," and I could go back to the task at hand.  But life is never that simple.  I could not let go.

Below is a peek into the mind that was preoccupied with different Lego pieces, instead of wrapping up unfinished work on a weeknight. 

There are days when you are just feeling chipper.  Happy to "be." 

Most of the time, because your days tend to be fraught with tension and screaming kids, you tend to gravitate towards people I shall forever call "happy to be wearing green pants."  Their optimistic attitudes are infectious.  They do not seem to care about anything.  You find yourself entertained, relaxed, and enjoying the interaction.  Their pants/"trousers" remind you of the '80s and jewel-toned fashion.  Back in the day when life was simpler, and you were never really worried about anything, but were in angst about everything.  Maybe it was all the hormones, or the zits?

 

There are days when you vacillate between happy and not-so happy. Because someone decided to cut you off on the freeway. Or, maybe drive slowly on the fast lane, the moment you realize that you are headed in the wrong direction and need to change lanes. 

 

There are days when you are just not yourself, period.  No matter how you try, something is just "off."  You know it.  Your significant other and kids know it.  Your boss and co-workers know it.  What's weird is you can't put your finger on or explain it to anyone.  It just is.  You just are.  Weird, that is.  And, the Venti Soy Mocha you just inhaled can't seem to fix the imbalance.

 

Then, there are days when you feel good about yourself.  Not being vain or anything like that, but maybe you feel "put together."  Yeah, your top actually matches your trousers (and are not polar opposites on the color wheel)! Or, something like that.  You feel good about the day's prospects.  Nice things are going to happen, right?  You are about to conquer that "to-do" list. Yeah, baby!

Except that by mid-morning you manage to spill coffee on your light colored top, and have been walking around with something the size of Canada between your teeth.  No wonder people were all smiley-smiley.  Of course, your mood just goes downhill from there.  Adding insult to injury, you realize that the meeting you were planning for tomorrow was actually scheduled for today, and started about 6 minutes ago.  The assistant to the SVP, Sales and Marketing has actually been all over the place looking for your sorry self to ask about that commission report.  Yes, the report you tried to work on when you got in this morning before you were pulled in 20 different directions. 

 

   

And, then there are days when...well...Oh, nevermind.  

Maybe that meeting you are in just entered it's fifth hour, and your "to-do" list from that morning has not been touched and probably doubled (tripled?) in the last hour or so.  All your alter-egos show up at the same time.

   

But this is just "make believe."  

Imaginative musings of a brain that refuses to acknowledge that it needs to cover 100 pages, and revise that PowerPoint presentation. (And wasted a good hour or so on this post).  Such is life.

How about you?  How are you feeling today?  

Hope yours is not as crazy as mine.

Luv,

Lease a.k.a  Duh