The story of the tortoise and the squirrel.

I am a self proclaimed schizophrenic squirrel married to an anal retentive tortoise. 


I shall explain.


I don't often write about my husband.  I would never want to embarrass him, but since he is a major part of my life I have to at the very least write about him every once in awhile. 


My husband and I were high school sweethearts.  We would break up and get back together all throughout college and dated for 8 years before we finally married 19 years ago.  We are polar opposites and yet we work.  I would tell you how if I knew but quite honestly I'm just gonna go with we are two imperfect people who refuse to stop trying no matter how annoying the other person is to us at times.  I'm annoying.  He's annoying.  You're annoying.  You're spouse is annoying.  If you didn't realize this fact and this is all you gain from my little rant then Merry Christmas.  Marriage 101..we are all annoying at some point and time. 


I digress. 


My husband is a highly intelligent detail oriented individual who will not even begin a project without knowing that he can complete the task to perfection.  I am a fun loving people person who starts lots of projects at once who may or may not eventually get around to finishing them all.  God put us together to balance each other out. 


I could look at the way that my husband and I are different and be upset that he doesn't like to do things the way I do, or I could appreciate the fact that because of the way my husband does things we are more likely to reach the goal that we have set before us.  My husband could look at the way I do things and get frustrated that there is no order or reason to the way that I do things or he could appreciate the joy and laughter that I bring to our world. 


Every situation can be looked at from many different perspectives.  Stop looking at situations that annoy you from your own perspective.  Look at them from the other persons perspective and try to figure out why they may have done it the way they did.  You may never figure it out but you don't have to get mad just because it wasn't done the way you would have wanted it done.  Just be glad it's done, and move on because there are 50 million other situations coming at you daily.  You want to spend your life in frustration and disappointment or do you want to get over your self and find joy? 


Go with Joy!  It's way better.  Go out...Be kind.