I am being tested today.

Since I started going to acupuncture I have felt legitimately better about life (as a whole) and have spent less time frustrated and more time letting things go. In my line of work it’s hard, unless you don’t have a soul, to not get aggravated with the situations that unfold - sometimes everyday.

I woke up early this morning, jumped out of bed and washed my face, dropped my laundry off and cleaned my car out. It’s 9:53 a.m. My plans for the morning were as follows:

Drop the laundry off, clean my car, go back upstairs and make some coffee, clean my apartment until about 11:30, go to the tanning salon (it’s for a wedding!), pick up my laundry, and do some other things around the house before I could ease into work. Friday’s are always a pretty ridiculous sight at my job so I have been trying to go in with an open mind. This would have been today’s plan, except that I got a phone call twenty minutes ago from a supervisor in my office. He was reluctant to inform me that a coworker has called out today, the same day in which the supervisor who comes in prior is on vacation. That means that there will be NO ONE in the office doing any daily tasks from ten until whenever I get there.

I just paused for a moment to take a deep breath.

I could handle this one of two ways. I could get angry because the circumstances leading up to today create a pattern that only myself and one other person in my office can see.

Or I can shake this off, which isn’t an easy feat, go in there today and just take the punches. I take a lot of punches.

I’m getting tired of taking punches.

So my plan is to do a hybrid of both options. I’m going to let myself get a little angry and then I’m going to shake it off and take the punches. Take the damn punches.

Take the goddamn punches and call it a day.