Random thoughts

You can lead a horse to water .....

..... but you can't make them drink.  How true this sentiment is.  I have been feeling this a lot with my life lately,  at home and at work.  You try to tell people things to help them, like ways to do a task that will be simpler or more efficient. Or you try to give someone advice on something because you care about them and want to help them.  Or you ask someone to do something a certain way because you are "supposed" to do it that way and they just ignore you.  And you tell someone that you worry about them and the choices they are making that are not healthy for them and they just ignore you.  I could go on and on but suffice to say that I am just frustrated and ready to throw in the towel at both places.

I like my job A LOT.  I don't like the drive at all, in fact, I detest the drive but the job market is not so great and like I said, I like what I do.  But the job is getting to the point that I feel like someone's mother and I already have that job at home and it is stressful at the moment.  I have been in a horrible mood for the past week because I now understand what talking to a brick wall means.  There are some people that try to give people advice because they think they know it all but when I give advice I like to think that the reason is to try to help that person.  I have made a lot of mistakes in my life, haven't we all?  But you don't want those that you love to make those same mistakes so you try to help them .... when I try to help someone that way, I usually try to just lay out some options.  Sometimes you can't do that, like at work - when you are required to do something a certain way and your team members continue to ignore the rules and then I have to cover it up or fix it.  When you do this day after day after day, it gets  mighty old.  And it is getting older than old now.

So much for my rant of the day.

If only I wasn't on a diet I would have had a few cupcakes this week ... I actually threw away almost a dozen cupcakes that I made last weekend just to keep from eating them.
Bedtime