This blog came about because the last blog I started, at this time last year, was long-winded and frustration-filled and I am in danger of falling into that rut again. That one was about the issues at the school where I teach - difficult coworkers, misguided administrators, demanding parents, misbehaving children, unreasonable workload, pointless paperwork, malfunctioning IT, and the list goes on. These complaints certainly don’t apply to all people or times at work, but negativity has a way of clouding out all the little sparks of positivity if we’re not careful. In my personal life, my husband is working interstate, tomorrow marks the seven year anniversary of the day my mother tried to commit suicide (ages ago, I know, but traumatic enough to still bother me sometimes), I live thousands of kilometres from my family (by choice, but I still miss them occasionally), I suffer from chronic migraines and anxiety and am just now getting over the severe cough I got at the beginning of July.
With that last whinge out of my system, now on to my small, positive considerations of life.
I will start retroactively to make up for my whinge. Yesterday, I got to zip around town in an orange Mini in the sun for a little while in the middle of the day because my car was in the shop. The Mini was a courtesy car and some of my students were receiving awards for a Remembrance Day competition they had entered. It was fun to drive a cute, little car and the ceremony was moving. I was proud of my students' work and their impeccable behaviour at the service, which was attended by other schools, many parents, retired veterans and local politicians.
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