It was a beautiful morning. Having just rained, the air was fresh, crisp, and as the sun rose the scattered white clouds rested gently in a clear blue sky. our 8am appointment at the Costco tire center gave us an opportunity to sit together and enjoy a coffee at a nearby "botique" shop. My intentions for the day, to be more present and less distracted worked well and I was rewarded with a sense of calm. Even after getting notified that there were issues removing the wheels due to over-torqued lug nuts. Ok. It is what it is, I gave authority to attempt to force at the risk of breaking, and hoped for the best. After about 30 min. with no callback we assumed all was ok. It was. I also stepped back from my typical need to direct and deflect the buying experienceand let Jen run the show. We now have a very well stocked freezer and pantry. I ran the handful of items man asked that I picks up over to her while Jen tackled and inspiration to clean. As I left my mom's I found to lug- nuts in a baggie in the eupholder. Checking the tires I found each of the 2 front one's were missing I bolt apiece. Another opportunity to choose my response and, although I do believe it was a communication fail, It was nothing to freak out over. I returned them and made a note to pickup replacements. Once home I put a consciously limited amount of time against a few online tasks while using most of the afternoon to catch up on some paperwork, filing, wine storage in the crawlspace (we are up to likely 90 + bottles down there at's point!). Dinner at Mark & Christy was for I did well sticking to my plans. It was fun to take in conversations and with littlelexceptions, listen instead of talking. Making a point to do so takes me out of the routine of thinking of or planning a response. Also, when there's already so much going on it's hard to keep track. My hearing can't easily filter out parallel conversations any more! Ugh.
