Gotta quit letting little things stress me out.

Lately, I find myself feeling stressed way too much. Not my normal way of dealing with the World. But then my world has been a bit more chaotic than normal.

Thankfully I do remember to breathe, step back to look at the situation and figure out what I can do, rather than getting caught up in what is stressing me and making it worse.

After hearing that not enough items have shown up for the Commonwheel Gallery show “Display It Again” opening tomorrow night, I called my friend who is hanging it. I asked him if a huge framed piece that was left behind by a tenant would be appropriate for the show. At first he thought it was too big, then reconsidered and said he could move just one piece and it would fit. 

Since it is too awkward and heavy for me to pick up myself, I asked if he could stop by and help me get it in my car and then into the gallery. Plus, that would confirm that it would be appropriate for the show. And the frame had some nicks which he thought he could fix also.

He and I are the two longest “surviving” members of the Co-op which began in late 1974. He beats me by about a year and a half. I didn’t move here until 1976, so missed the very beginning of Commonwheel. We have been good friends since we first met. I do appreciate him for all he has done for the Co-op these many years. We are working together on the Gallery show in late April that will Celebrate the 40 years that Commonwheel has been here.

While waiting for him, I tried to update a membership and pay for an event happening this evening. Updating my membership did not work. At first said I didn’t exist. Then when tried to do a new membership, told me my user name was already in use. Which to me, meant I was a member, as no one would use that user name but me. I was able to pay for the event, so decided I would just bring a check to the event and let them sort it out and hope I would only be in the system as one person.

He had said he’d be here in a half hour, but more than an hour passed and he hadn’t arrived. I had to get to an appointment across town where I had never been before, and was watching the time tick away. Just as I was about to call him again, he showed up.

We took that and a couple of other pieces I thought might need new homes to the Commonwheel Gallery. At the last minute, I remembered that I wanted to pick up the albums in the basement that the flood had damaged and were very muddy. Another past member had offered to look at them and see what could be salvaged.

Got to my Hearing Test appointment a little early. Realized I had forgotten the paperwork, but was able to fill it out there. Then the audiologist determined one of my ears had too much wax in it that was very deep and didn’t want to do the test. I don’t have a GP, so need to find one to help with that health challenge and then come back for the hearing test.

Could really feel the weather changing. Continued on to do my Costco shopping and headed home for a webinar.

Found an email from our new treasurer and saw that the figures for 2012 Art Festival’s financial picture was really off in a bad way. She had a comparison of the past two years, and it had me upset that we were using wrong figures to show the whole membership. She has just taken over from the member I constantly had a disagreement with for how he was reporting different information than what I was seeing from the Accountant. Emailed her with a copy of the information I had gotten from the accountant at the end of both years. She won’t fix 2012, at least not right now, and feels the membership really wants to see the 2013 figures, and she did update the Festival year end figure to be more accurate. One can only do so much, so am letting this go for now.

This took up the time I had allocated for writing on my blogs and doing some other web site work. So it goes . . .

Had a webinar that ended early, which meant I could leave my house sooner and get to the Green Cities Coalition 6th annual Celebration and a speaker I really wanted to hear. There was a “Stone Soup” and salad dinner with apple cider and cookies for desert. I hadn’t eaten very well today, so that was really a wonderful dinner for me. I walked to the venue, I figure it would take me about 7 minutes longer walking than driving, as I would need to warm up the car and find parking. Its about a half mile walk, so good exercise. It was a bit icy on the way home, so just took it very slowly and carefully.

The speaker, Brian Potts, was very inspirational. As he talked about the challenges we are facing regarding healthy food and water, he presented many solutions and ideas that our community could implement to help turn things around. He has just put up a web site that will have many of the studies and ideas he talked about tonight. I look forward to checking out his web site often in the future.

I was able to talk to three people, including Brian Potts, about Structured Water Filters, and two are interested to learn more. The other had been using a portable version of this that the person who turned me onto it and we decided there were many reasons she and I needed to talk. Both of us had “fired” our doctors whose prognosis for us was a health challenge we had would only get worse and they had no help for us.

We both turned our health around doing many different things, but we both credit using essential oils as being very helpful in finding increased health rather than decreasing health as the doctors predicted would happen.

I am always looking for stories like this, as I have begun writing a book last year about “firing” my doctor and using alternative health practices to find my optimum health.