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Yesterday was the kind of wonky Monday that sticks out in memory for some time to come as a good example of the weirdness that day of the week can quintessentially espouse like no other. You know…what other day of the week would get started with missing keys, a bank mistake, an overcooked lunch sandwich, windshield wipers that mysteriously turn on and off by themselves, low tires, two round trips to town… all peppered with a little fatigue and moodiness? At one point in the morning I decided to “just bounce” with it and work on exercising that “flexibility muscle”. By afternoon I was singing, “no body’s gonna break my stride, nobody’s gonna slow me down, I gotta keep on mooooovin’ “, and it worked. Still a busy day that operated anti-smoothly, but at the end of the day, somehow everything got done and relationships were still quite intact. Not bad.

Life is still changing around here… never static! In everything from school (which is going fantastically btw), to a new phone (didn’t go with the familiar and so glad for it!), to a dream-come-true of a new job, there are lots of opportunities to “just bounce”. So life doesn’t always go the way we expect? That often can be a GOOD thing! And as a result, I’m wondering if maybe part of that is because I set my expectations for what life can hold too low.  Anyone have thoughts or comments on that trend? Do you do it as well? Or not? Good thing/bad thing?

Just a side note….I’m not commenting on whether or not the Palin family is a good one or not.  That would be impossible for me to tell and I’ve seen too many shiny-happy families with nasties lurking in their closets (and rough-around-the-edge ones with real stability) to make a surface judgment anyway. My point was to think out-loud on how the choice of her as VP feels to me, and to say that I question any elected official’s ability to serve their office well with lots of family drama and needs. Ditto Edwards and cancer/grief, ditto Clinton and adultry/sexual addiction, etc. Maybe she’d be an excellent candidate four years from now but I personally don’t see the wow-factor at the moment.

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