You can't have everything, where would you put it?

[ClingingToHope]

Funny, Awest, I'm trying to NOT be an optimist -- or a pessimist -- and just focus on today.

Have you ever heard of the Stockdale paradox. Admiral Stockdale was a Vietnam prisoner of war. He said the experience shaped his life in positive ways -- that's the paradox. He had to go through great suffering, but he survived and it made him stronger.

A reporter later asked him -- who didn't get out of the prison camps?

He said "That's easy. The optimists."

The optimists would say we'll be out by July 4, or we'll be out by Thanksgiving, or by Christmas. Stockdale said every time a date would come and go the optimists would die a little bit more and eventually they gave up.

That's how I was last year. We'll be back together by her birthday or Christmas or our anniversary.

So I'm trying to just focus on today.

Side note. The after school sitter money thing sorted itself out. She MISCOUNTED. So it was nothing. I did clean out my couches though. That's good.

Tonight I have a football game to score then two friends are in town from Labor Day. I reconnected through Facebook and both have gone through divorces so we've talked a lot in the past year.

So after the game I'm going to spend a few hours with them.

Tomorrow and Sunday I have the girls and we'll do the big Labor Day festival and spend a day at the health club.

Sunday night I'm dropping them off at STBXW's and heading out with some other friends.

Then golf on Monday and either catching up on work or catching up on sleep.