Last week, I walked into my office desk location (my 11 year-old son scoffed at me calling my co-work desk my “office,” so it is my “office-desk-place”), where I said Good Morning to my office-desk-mate.
Then I realized that it was 1:30pm on a Monday. My Monday had just started, and then really starts again at 7pm when I take notes for the weekly City Council Meeting where I live, so that I can be up on all of the legislative things for the local blog I publish.
I commented to my office-desk-mate: “Pardon me. It is 1:30pm and you are getting your lunch, but for me, Mondays are sort of all day mornings for me. There is no graduation to the afternoon on a Monday. It’s just getting up, keeping up with the brand new fresh to-do list for the week, and then falling asleep after feeding and putting the kids to bed.”
In the “office-desk-place,” I have been known to have a theme song for the day, that plays on repeat in my headphones. One day when it was Tuesday, I played “Manic Monday,” which felt quite normal. My former Monday had been robbed by my two Sick Kids who needed to visit the doctor for asthma cough. By the time it hit Tuesday, I felt all fresh and Monday-ish. When I announced my on-repeat song of “Manic Monday” on a Tuesday, my office-desk-mate curiously questioned my choice, noting that it was Tuesday.
“True,” I said. “But I’m getting a delayed Monday today.”
For this Monday, it’s been a good Monday. My theme song was not “Manic Monday,” but instead was the calm “Time After Time,” (both by Cyndi Lauper).
Did this Monday have highs and lows typical of a Monday? Yes. I tried my best to stay ahead of them. I did have to help a Tin Shingler who got locked out of the Tin Shingle website for repeat login attempts. And then I myself got locked out of my office-desk-place because they changed the passwords today and I just couldn’t memorize it in the day and left all of my devices inside while I walked to the car to change my contacts to glasses. That was horrifying. To be disconnected in an unplanned way, when I had a City Council Meeting to pound the keyboard on.
BUT - after mulling over all of the ways I could possibly reach my office-desk-mate on her phone, which I also did not memorize, I remembered that I lived near a fellow office-desk-renter. I walked up to her front porch. She kindly gave me the new digits.
Huzzah.
Other Big Things happened on this Monday. I need to buy a new house, and made progress today. But it’s the little things like that that we can breathe gratefulness for.
Hope you had a great Monday - or one that you survived. On Tuesday, Tin Shingle will send you and update we made to our Media Contact Idea Center. Please always send us your needs, and we will research them.
Till then!
