{"id":349,"date":"2011-10-23T06:45:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T12:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=349"},"modified":"2011-10-23T06:47:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T12:47:20","slug":"things-i-loathe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"Things I Loathe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I am not a Pollyanna, despite the assumptions of some.\u00a0 I try to keep a stiff upper lip and all that.\u00a0 I see the glass as half full.\u00a0 I look for the rainbows and the beauty that surrounds all of us.\u00a0 I get tired of negativity.\u00a0 I avoid it.\u00a0 I laugh often.<\/p>\n

That being said, there are a few things I abhor.\u00a0 Listed in no order of importance.<\/p>\n

1 – Taking the hanging baskets off the deck and storing them outside the barn.\u00a0 I feel like I am betraying those last few flowers.\u00a0 At this time of year, they look pathetic on the deck and then when they are placed outside the barn, they stand out like a sudden, wondrous spring.\u00a0 How could I abandon them?\u00a0 Solution – I collected as many seeds as possible and I will gaze out at the barn and smile.<\/p>\n

2 – Indecision.\u00a0 That alone will be the toughest part of the next few months.\u00a0 Yes, it is an amazing opportunity to move forward into new territory, but I am getting antsy.\u00a0 We are looking closely at yet another builder.\u00a0 This should not be a quick decision and I get that.\u00a0 We are both feeling good about the latest permutation.\u00a0 Solution – walk more.<\/p>\n

3 – Theft and destruction.\u00a0 Youngsters who sit in class and decide to break things make me crazy.\u00a0 That’s another story on a different blog…after retirement.\u00a0 Thieves who violate others leave me speechless, helpless and confused.\u00a0 It didn’t happen to us, but in a way it did.\u00a0 Solution – seating reassignment in class and the selling of the rental.<\/p>\n

Undoubtedly, this list could go on and on.\u00a0 That is the problem with complaints – they never end.\u00a0 So, as my dear friend says, “It’s time to pull up your big girl panties and move on”.\u00a0 So, with elastic in hand, I reposition and jump into the fray!<\/p>\n

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