Patiences

Hello Everyone:

I've been feeling a little tense today, maybe because it's getting to that time of the month again.  I'm trying to be extra cognizant of my mood.  I'm being extra-vigilant about maintaining my cool and not blowing up over the slightest thing.  How's that going?  Meh.  It's a full time job.  I remind myself everyday to keep my patience and just go with the flow but sometimes it's hard, especially when there are so many things that test my patience every single day, minute, second.  I have to be extra keen about it once a month because the hormones seem to be on overdrive.  What can start out as a little thing can suddenly turn into a big blow up.  One source of ongoing aggravation is mom.  Specifically, I think mom is having serious hearing and comprehension problems.  This can make things extremely difficult in terms of communicating information.  For example, the other day I found a coupon for a smog check.  It took me forever to explain to mom that it wasn't a free smog check (I wish).  It's a little thing but I could feel myself loosing my patience, fortunately I managed to keep a cool head and pull out the coupon I printed and show it to her.  Sometimes it's not the little things that get to me.  I just have to remember that sometimes things are just not worth getting in a twist over.  Thank goodness for blogging and spotify.  I think if I didn't have a place to air out my feelings I'd genuinely go completely off the rails.  Running also helps with stress relief and keeps the bloating at bay.  I have a copy of the Serenity Prayer on my mirror.  Maybe I should carry it around with me and say it whenever I start to get in knot over things.  Ugh.