Been a while so I thought I would post.

One of the recurring themes on my path is "dealing," especially dealing with the unexpected. I often wonder what Spirit is tempering me for by having all of these challenges come into my life.

Most of it is petty bulls**t that is more frustrating than true calamity, but every now and then I'm thrown soemthing bigger like my car blowing it's headgasket and dying on the NY Thru-Way when I'm 300+ miles away from home, or my flipping my car over on a winding road, or coming home to find a dog has gotten sick all over my house.

Today it was triple-whammy. I had a sick ferret, a sick dog and I thought something fell off my car: I heard a ping and clang, then when I looked I found a loose hexagonal nut on the driveway right where I heard the noise. So... I had to rush to get an appointment with my mechanic who said he'd be leaving early, then I had to rush to give my one client a bath and get her dressed, then high-tail it out of there so I could get the car to the shop. 40 harrowing minutes and much breaking of speedlimits later, he tells me that the nut couldn't have come off my car coz it's not the kind of nut that goes on a car, and I prolly kicked it up with my tire and it clanged against the bottom of the car, and that was the noise. Okay, *whew* But still an hour of stress.

Then I pop home and find that the dog's fever is down to 102.7 (from 103.5) which is good and the ferret seems to be improving too. So... much angst and stress but everything seems to be ok. I'm just frazzled by all of it.

So, Spirit is honing my coping skills. I'm getting pretty good at coping. I hope I'm ready for the whopper they're tempering me for.