It is a bit of a happier morning than my Monday post indicated Monday was going to be. I explained this is Phone-Hell week on my job, the week after bills go out and our client's call in with all of their issues. We get calls all month long, but this second week of the month is the heaviest volume of calls, therefore, Phone-Hell week. 😂 😟
I have gotten where I take a vacation day on Wednesday on this second week of every month now to save my sanity. I do have to burn one of my vacation days to do it, but I get 31 paid days a year to take off when I want too or use if I am sick and I decided it was a valid way to use some of them.
The days I am working though, I try to surround myself with happy things that I can glance at now and then while I'm on hold or when I need to zone out for a minute to regroup my brain... a quick mini break of sorts.
For this winter I gathered a collection of snowman paintings I have. This little group sits on the left side of my work desk. The only one in the photo below that is my own artwork is the snowman on the far right.... you know.... the GREEN snowman. 😂 (Listen and you can hear my 88 year old mother say thoughtfully "I've never seen a green snowman before, but somehow I kind of like it")
The little wooden snowman on the bottom left was part of a prize package I got when I did in-store modeling one time many years back when I lived in San Antonio, Texas. It was at my favorite clothes store. I've told that story before and "modeling" makes it sound much more... posh .. .than it actually was, but that's what they called it. I made off like a bandit for doing it though with a few little prizes and lots of new clothes. All these years later, this little snowman is my token reminder of that day.
Above the desk are a few more from my snowman painting collection. None of these are my work. I think I did a blog before with these in it. I know I did one with the big center photo of three snowmen by the fire. Not sure about the other two.
Whimsical and abstract... my favorite kinds.
All of these help add some HAPPY to my work desk corner. We have to get some "happy" however we can, don't we?
I don't normally use my Vaca/Keep My Sanity Wednesdays for chores, but since I didn't do any last weekend, I will be spending my morning doing a few of those. Already a load of washed clothes is spinning and about ready to go in the dryer, some clingy toilet bowl cleaner is doing it's job in the toilet and I am about to go load the dishwasher. Not fun... but necessary. A couple hours should make it close to right and then I will have the afternoon for .... something... I don't know what yet, but I can figure that out while I am doing the chores.
I hope you are doing well and that your heart is happy.
