Am getting ready for a pretty busy weekend = Coaching D6s basketball game, taking the girls on a stagecoach ride that is being offered downtown and then treating them to go see "Paddington" tonight. Tomorrow will be all about the garden- doing some winter clean up and taking full advantage of the greenhouse that came with the property to get some seeds started.
I did have a minor revelation yesterday at work. I have a lovely boss who I enjoy working with very much, but she has is just awful at office politics, she's always picking at people for minor stuff in meetings, and consequently she has a terrible relationship with her own boss. Since, I get along with the Uberboss as well, I find myself smoothing over their upsets with each other (always over something trivial) and boy did I do that yesterday. Afterwards I had to have a tough talk with one of the parties involved.
Part of the reason I have always done well at work is that I "don't sweat the small stuff", but I also don't shy away from having hard conversations when they are needed (which I do very tactfully and in a way that usually doesn't leave bruised feelings).
I brought the first skill over to my marriage in spades, but not the second. I need to find out why. I can't tell you how many little things I with let go off with a thought that it just wasn't worth it. But major, hard conversations? We had them about practical matters (expenses, his choice of car etc) but not about any of the stuff underneath.
