Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Cranky






Monday is a very long day for me working at the library. I work ten hours on Mondays, which is pretty challenging to begin with. Unfortunately today I also got to work and found myself CRANKY. So it was a double whammy. 

Everything was irritating. 

Nothing seemed to go my way. Everything bugged me. 

I was a mess.


Cranky cranky cranky cranky.


This went on for several hours.


I tried to take a lot of deep breaths.

I tried to delight in the little things.

"What little things?" You ask.

I don't know. They were too little to see!


Eventually, I decided that maybe I was simply hungry. All I had to eat was a nearly endless supply of spinach. So, trying to delight in the little things, I cooked a gigantic box of spinach. It was so much spinach I had to sort of feed the spinach into my skillet in stages as it cooked down. Finally, I got all the spinach into the skillet and when I finished cooking it I had several forkfuls of spinach!

Which is a lot for cooked spinach!

My co-workers made lots of Popeye jokes.

"You are going to be so strong after you eat that spinach!" They said.

Well, strong is better than cranky!


I ate all the spinach.

Was I still cranky?


I was still cranky.


But now I was strong enough to pretend I wasn't. 

Which is half the battle.














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