Once again, a GREAT morning it is followed by an interesting night last night. While I was at work I texted my wife to tell her not to worry about fixing me dinner because I was going to stop by BArnes and Noble to work on a website thats due by Saturday. Somewhere within the text, she thought I was doing this because she left her computer at work the night before and I needed it. You see, my computer won't log onto the internet with our wifi device and her's will. It will work with any other wifi device or service except mine. So I have to go to a place that offers free wifi to get any work done. So, I sent my wife a text back explaining my reasoning for going to Barnes and Noble, but I didn't feel as if she really got it. So me being the man that I am, I wanted everything to go over smooth and I didn't want any conflict (I hate unneccessary conflict).
While I was driving home, I was thinking that I should just go home and that way everything will be just fine and she wouldn't think I was trying to be anal about her not bringing her computer home. Well, I was about 5 minutes away from my exit and my mind was made up to go home. I was even in the far left lane. The closer I got to the BArnes and Noble exit, the calmer my spirit got. I started feeling energetic and relaxed all at once. I immediately swerved the car to the right and got off the exit. Granted, I only had two hours to work and sometimes two hours is not a lot of time when your doing web design. I just sat there and told myself that I needed to utilize all the time I had. When I got started, it was unreal. I was working on two websites at once and getting it DONE! I updated one of myu clients site and got a lot of the new site done. I was very impressed with myself. It gets better. When I got home I was a little drained being that I had rreally been working over 12 hours. I didn't even eat anything, I just jumped rigth in the bed because I knew I only had a few hours of rest ahead of me. Right before I closed my eyes, a thought ran through my head and I immediately pickep up my blackberry and started typing. I wrote an article titled The Next Day (if you click on The Next Day it will take you to--it's on my facebook page under my notes just in case your at work)
When you are working hard and trying to do the right thing, sometimes you have to sit back, relax and veer off course and get some things done that need to be done. Put aside the emotional part of the situation and get to the meaning of it. Yes, I could have gone home to make sure everything was ok, but I had a more important task at hand. I had to make a decision and I went with the decision of working on a website. Did I neglect my wife? No, not at all. What I did was "man upped" made a decision that was beneficial to both of us. I am learning that this is a major part of being a man. You have to be able to make sound decisions for your family and your family have to trust that you will make those sound decisions. So, ladies, do you let your man be a man and make those sound decisions that he needs to make or do you try to make them for him
-K.J Swint
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