"The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have."
Woody Allen
Pass the hot sauce.
It's time to eat the frog once again.
I've written about this dreaded event before.
Mark Twain famously said that if the first thing you do in the morning is eat a live frog, you can go through the rest of the day knowing the worst is behind you. Your frog is your worst task, and you should do it first thing in the morning. ...
He also said that if your job is to eat 2 frogs, eat the biggest one first.
Today I chose to eat the 3 frogs hopping around me that need to be eaten.
All morning long as I drove my bus I became more and more determined to eat my frogs.
Eventually, I pulled up my driveway, went into my house, grabbed the hot sauce (okay my phone) and proceeded to eat the rogs.
The first and biggest frog was experiencing higher than normal volume and suggested I try calling back either Wednesday or Thursday.
Fair enough.
The next frog initially struggled so I took it out of my mouth and tried again .
(Okay so the agent on the other end didn't appreciate my tone and hung up on me).
I called back,spoke to a nicer person in a nicer tone and while nothing was resolved yet,I do have an action plan and the mystery of how to move forward has been solved.
The aftermath will still have to be dealt with. I will have the proverbial upset stomach and lingering side effects for a year or so,however, I have a path to move forward.
By the time I got to the third frog it was easy.
I handled it on line.
Moving forward , it will be just another monthly inconvenience for a number of months , okay years.
Tomorrow, I will once again attempt to deal with the big frog.
The good news is that by then it will have marinated in the hot sauce for another 24 hours so maybe ,just maybe it will be a little bit more palatable!
Now there......that wasn't so bad, was it?
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