Attitude
You know, it is really funny. I am pretty confident that the majority of people in the world have this problem, but I have been waking up with a pretty lame attitude lately. Not a lame attitude like I’m pissed off at the world, but an attitude like I don’t want to do any work - which is pretty bad for me. I think I need to take a quick vacation out of town to recharge, get a set work schedule (lately I’ve just been working 7 days a week around the clock), and possibly an offsite office. Right now I work out of my house, and it is really getting old. It is annoying as hell to come home on Friday night after being out, having a good time, getting sucked into the computer for 5 minutes and then all of a sudden I have been working for several hours and finally pass out. Even if I just had a crummy 150sqft office in Mesa (a fairly crappy town) I would be happy - it would help create that separation between home life and work.
Anyways, back to the attitude thing. It really ruins my day, and most days, I’ve been forcing my self to go back to sleep just so I regain a decent attitude - where I end up spending 14 hours of the day sleeping. I have even gone for a few early-as-hell morning jogs and had some decent relief, but nothing consistent.
In a much lesser note, I finished my taxes earlier last month and found out today that my state refund had been placed on hold, guess why? I forgot to pay a parking ticket nearly three years ago. Well I lied, I did not forget, but I did not want to pay it because it was a bullshit ticket for parking in teacher parking that was not marked, plain and simple. It happend to occur at Mesa Community College, and the only way you can appeal the ticket is by writting a letter to the college dean, such a ridiculous process. I was not going to go tear up what name I could potentially have with anyone by writting a nasty letter about a ticket - so I blew it off and never put any effort out to pay it. So now a $35 (+ late fees) ticket is holding a $x,xxx refund - genius. They could have at least deducted it from my return…
I am not sure how many of you guys actively watch TV, but I generally don’t make a habit to watch specific shows because I hate getting wrapped into a show for a season. But Discovery Channel has been playing re-runs of this show about Alaskan Crab fishing called ‘Deadliest Catch’. I am not sure why, but the show is definitely very captivating for me. So captivating it makes me want to goto Alaska and try it, in hopes of a simpler life, and fast money. I doubt it will ever happen, but it is very fun watching the show and it is a happy thought. I cannot wait till the new season comes out April 4th, it is definitely worth checking out, if you’re a “Discovery Channel” kind of person.
Anyways, until next time, I’m out. Have a great day!
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” - Marcus Aurelius
Great post…hearing about others’ poor attitude can be encouraging. Odd…
Haha, I am always willing to help out where I can..
Yeah great post Robert. I have seen “Deadliest Catch” too. It’s pretty amazing, but it must be so much more terrifying to be there than it looks on TV.
Anyway keep it up. The blog looks good. I’ll check back from time to time.
Rob
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