This Monday September it was Labor Day in the United
States. Most people have the day off
from work; it is a long weekend. It
also marks the end of summer.
On Labor Day, the Panda Bear and Mr. Panda went to the YMCA
to go swimming and get their needed exercise.
Then they went home to do their needed household chores.
The Panda Bear and Mr. Panda are very fortunate in that they
both have jobs. The downside is they
have very little free time and much of their off work hours is spend doing
chores, seeing physicians and getting their needed exercise since they both
have desk jobs (desk jobs are turning out to be very bad for one’s health).
The Panda Bear spent much of the day going through tickets
to see if she won a prize at her local supermarket’s sweepstakes. She must have gone through about 75 tickets
but she won no prize. It was very
disappointing to the Panda Bear to find out she did not win the supermarket’s 1,000,000 dollar prize and realize that she
would have to go to work the next day.
The Panda Bear has often heard that instant riches ruin
people. (Actually, the Panda Bear
knows of several people who recently inherited some money and are in no rush to
go back to work). While the Panda Bear
doubts her competency in many areas of life, she feels suddenly having lots of
money would not go to her head. She
would quit her job and become a part-time bank teller (she sees advertisements
for part-time tellers). The job would
give her some structure to her day but she would be free to do other things she
likes to do such as take day trips, blogging, seeing friends and taking care of her apartment.
The Panda Bear’s apartment is a disaster. During the summer it has been too hot to do
much work in her apartment. The Panda
Bear could use a couple of months off from work to work on her apartment;
however, alas, that time is not there.
The Panda Bear hopes that as the weather cools off she can slowly work
on getting her apartment organized one room at a time.
Before the Panda Bear studied relaxation techniques, she had
anxiety attacks about her apartment.
She felt stressed out because she
did not have the time, energy and inclination to keep her apartment in the
condition that it should kept. With all
the stresses in modern life, the apartment just seemed like an added pressure.
After the Panda Bear learned how to get more relaxed, she
realized that there was no point about stressing over her apartment. She feels things will get done when they get
done. Stressing out about things does
not help matters it just is hard on oneself.
Now the Panda Bear looks at the mess and says things will get down when
they get done.
However, the Panda Bear has found an interesting radio show
that states that many people are like the Panda Bear and find owning property
stressful. The show has had segments
that state the American families are feeling strapped for time and very hard at
their jobs. This time pressure leaves
people very little time to deal with their property.
The show is called Real Estate Today and it is put
out by the National Association of Realtors.
Now the Panda Bear would never have thought that she, the hater of
household chores, and the National Association of Realtors would share many of
the same views on real estate.
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