The Toilet Was When I Knew That God Was Mocking Me

Life is multi-faceted. There are things you’re thinking about at home, at work, in life in general. Opportunities.

Some are forseen. For example, our audit is starting. This is a familiar and well-known stress point, a time when I need to be on my game, involving a lot of hours, reports, thinking, and so on. But we’ve known that it was coming.

Some are potential. At work we’ve known for a while that things were out there on the horizon that could be “a thing,” potentially a *HUGE* thing in terms of hours, work, effort, disruption to the normal routine, and so on. All stress points. Granted, with a lot of great opportunities on the other side of the stress, but still – stress.

Some are long-term goals, like the “forever home” search. We’ve been “looking” for three or four years, never knowing when we might find “the one.”

So when the audit starts, and then things start happening lightning fast on that *HUGE* thing, and then things start happening way faster than you ever thought they might on the house hunt, something’s got to give.  We’re adjusting priorities, which can be disappointing, but necessary.

THEN there’s another hour plus in the dentist chair which somehow results in a chunk of tooth that hadn’t been a problem being chipped off and now we have ANOTHER dental problem to deal with. With pain, just after we finally got rid of the old dental pain point…

So with all of that going on TODAY all at once, and I’m wondering which god’s dog I kicked, to find that the toilet has completely backed up and made a huge mess… The toilet was when I knew that God was mocking me.

Fine. Laugh away, God.

But I stuck with the home repairs and got the toilet functional again, even if it’s probably not completely fixed. And I’m ready for the audit. And I’ll hit the ridiculous deadlines for the *HUGE* thing, even though it will take the weekend. And sooner rather than later, even if a brief stint on the back burner means that we don’t get one of the ideal dream houses that we’re eyeballing, there will be other ideal dream houses to find later.

Being brilliant or talented might be wonderful, but being stubborn (i.e., “Too stupid to give up”) gets the job done.