Monday, Monday

Well, it was definitely a Monday in every sense of the word. I spent most of the day doing the least fun part of my job (for me, any way) working on budget stuff. It comes with the job as a manager, but at heart, I am still just an instructor. I still love teaching more than any other part of my job. I love watching the light go on in someone's eyes when the concept or skill I am telling or showing "clicks" and they get it. The excitement, the sense of accomplishment...yeah I dig it.

Have you ever wondered how Monday got such a terrible reputation? I mean really. It's just another day of the week, by most calendars, it's the second day of the week. But because it's the first day in many peoples' work week (or school week for my young friends), it has come to stand for the drab and dreary. The hard to get over. The "everything will go wrong" day. The "oh, please don't make me get out of bed" day. I'm not sure when these attitudes made their way into my conciousness, but there they are and I deal with them every Monday. Hmmmm.

Anyway, I was at work doing manager-weinie stuff, and I found, to my great delight that I had money in the budget that I thought had been lost. It was there a few weeks ago, then gone, then today we were able to track down where it went and I am getting it back. Woo hoo! This is wonderful because it was set aside for completing a project that I thought I was going to have to scrap or work on free time to finish. God is so good. Yes, you read that right. I am saying God is good, because I firmly believe it was His plan for me to find that money. Why? Because it gave me the boost I needed to make Monday a happy day in spite of many things going wrong.

Sometimes Mondays aren't so bad after all. Just don't tell Garfield. :)

P.S. Bonus points for all who know the significance of the image without using Google! LOL