Joie de Vivre!

I am reading a book called Learn to Value Your Childhood...Your History is Your Teacher by Vince DiPasquale.  In it he writes that many of us walk around depressed and angry yet refuse to look at our pasts, letting them remain our "normals".  Although I have worked on my childhood resentments for a very long time, it is the unwritten norms I tend to overlook as being normal.  I am working a great deal on boundaries, as in having limits on how much I am hurt by others' minor thoughtlessness.  I have given myself permission to not give a damn that someone is pissed at me if they really don't have a leg to stand on, so to speak.  I am not responsible for someone else's issues.  That doesn't make me mean, just healthy

I had plans to spend a good part of the day at a political rally meeting a candidate but I was called in to work late last night.  So I am off to earn $70 teaching elementary science all day. Ouch!