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Day 189: Mondays!

Happy Monday!  If you've just grimaced and muttered, "What's so great or happy about Mondays?" then do me a favor and click here.  :)
Okay, back with me now?
I'm grateful for Mondays and here's one of the reasons why.  (Other reasons are outlined here.) For me Mondays are the start of a fresh work week - a clean slate if the work week before wasn't so great. I use Mondays as a chance to regroup, if necessary, and look at how I can do things differently so my work week is better. Also I am grateful for Mondays because I have a fresh dose of grace for the "sandpaper" people in my life that I work with*. Just bein' honest. By Friday I need a couple days off from certain people so I can regroup and be good to go for another week with them by Monday. :)

*I've mentioned the sandpaper people I work with before. Here and here

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