Thursday, October 18, 2007

Just Stuff

Wind knocked off one of the birds but DH fixed it. He also wanted to polish it up a bit but I like the way it's weathering.
My insurance agent called to inform me that the collision shop that has my car will be keeping it until November 1st - I expected to get it back next week so am disappointed. And the apx $1500.00 estimate has changed to $2600.00 and may climb.

DGS said there was going to be a potluck (what's a potluck?) at work and he was asked to bring a dessert. Should be interesting. He's still on his Italian kick - how hard is to to make tiramisu?

My workday has the usual amounts of stress - some days are better than others. Today I needed to resurrect an old exercise:

take three deep breaths breathing in through the nose and out through the mouth

out loud say "alert, amused body"

take three more deep breaths

and then say "calm mind" and smile

Works every time - think it's the "smile" that does it. Can't feel too stressed if you're smiling.

2 comments:

rosemary said...

Holy schmoly....what do you drive???? Keeping it until 11/1....are the parts coming via truck from China???

Sandy said...

If you saw how little damage was done you'd think I'd have the car back in 3-4 days! I groused so much, they called back today and said they'd probably have it ready by the 24th - hey, that was their original estimate.