This week I spent an evening and night in the Abbey Court Hotel in Nenagh. Hopeful of a relaxing evening, after at long day at work, I headed down to the bar, took a corner table and ordered some smoked salmon on sourdough br

ead and a glass of Pinot… with my iBook opened for some proper girly reading I exhaled at the pure thought of the tranquility and then….. 

A knife (not to sharp) came flying at me. It was the English “gentleman” next to me who had accidentally dropped his knife approximately 2 metres! I was reassured by one of the three sirs not to worry, that were they come from what is thrown is normally way worse!!

From there the night took a turn and didn’t end up anywhere near the way it was intended to. 

When the waiter came over and asked if everything was ok I couldn’t help myself but to say that yes except that my neighbouring table was throwing knifes at me!! His face…. I requested spoons, plastic, for their pending dessert. 

That was not the end of it!! Next a bus tour (assumption) came out from a larger room and took to the piano and of course someone had a flute…. how could they not. Very musically talented but one major defect, they did not know the words to one single song so restored to na, na, na’s and la, la, la’s. 

I couldn’t help but laugh and this of course reignited the conversation with the “gentlemen” next to me!! 

Oi, you laughing at me? 

Eh, noooo 

You shouldn’t be i didn’t throw the knife at ya.

Ok…. good to know! 

I had to retire to the tranquility of the lobby to finish that Pinot!!! 

Life is full of surprises and unexpected events!!! They truly bring a smile to my face.  

 

Is it time to stop for a minute??? 

As you know I love living life in the fast lane but there are times when I know that even I’m pushing on to hard…… 

Thursday was one of those days. I went for a sandwich at lunchtime and as I was standing there in the cue tears came to my eyes….. the pot was simply boiling over and I hadn’t even stopped to think that I might be sad, overwhelmed or whatever that was…. 

That was followed by taking the wrong exit off a roundabout leaving me on the scenic route home! I did laugh (not cry) at this one but I certainly believe this means that I need to stop for a minute. 

When thinking about it a conversation I had with a friend sprung to mind and his two very wise sentiments; 

1. You can’t run from yourself for ever…. at some stage Malin will catch up with Malin…. 
2. We work in the area of educating others to wellbeing at work…. It’s time to put into practice our own advices. 

All I can say is that I’m like a bold child so I say yeah, yeah you grown up. What do you know? 

But although, as I’ve mentioned before, I’m generally quite good at recognising the warning signs, that my situations are going south, I might have failed in being 100% honest. I haven’t really admitted to you or to myself that I don’t always listen….. I don’t always stay on the straight and narrow to finding My Me… 

That is something that for me needs to become an essential part of my working progress…. it is too late when you are crying in the sandwich cue.

Mistakes 

In the spirit of the weekend just gone and listening to Keywest’s song All My Mistakes on Friday night I am going g to finish this blog post by talking about mistakes. Lucky for you not about all of them!!! 

Like with many other things in life I believe we should turn to look at things from a positive angle. The same goes for mistakes. 

I’m not referring to the concept of “learn from your mistakes” that’s not what this is about, albeit a valuable tool. This is about using the word mistake as a positive. 

Like the lyrics says;

“Of all my mistakes, your still my favourite one”. 

So have you ever made a mistake that has ended up turning into something really great?? I have, (not shy to admit it) made them lots of times!! 

There are of course some mistakes that are my favourites ones. They have made me who I am, brought people around me I wouldn’t have met without them, taught me more about who I am and when I think of some of them I smile, actually I even laugh out loud from time to time!!! 

Have you a favourite mistake you would share?? I would love to hear all about it!

Now as Sunday afternoon is here, it is time to do some of the work preparations for the week ahead and of course cuddle with my amazing three amigos!! Have a great week!!