Stop and Smell the Roses

So I was driving home from work after a somewhat stressful day at work. The morning started out great, I had a fun trip to Costco with my mom and then she took me to lunch at Smashburger which has AMAZING sweet potato fries. I love love love them. Their sandwiches are awesome too. But then the afternoon at work was a *struggle.*

There are issues where we need to move customers from one preview to another preview and yatta yatta which whatever I say won't make much sense to anyone... but basically the engineers that are supposed to fix the problem said it would be done Monday when we talked to them LAST Thursday.

Was it done Monday? Of COURSE not. Was it done Tuesday or Wednesday? Nope. So morning I called them and said... hey... remember how this should be done? And they said it would be done that morning... so at 2 I finally walked over to Engineering and talked with them. They made it happen by about 3 or so but there's lots to be done and it wasn't working the way it should. I was done with the day and got things done that NEED to be done, so I headed home...

As I was driving along 400 East in Orem, a woman was walking along the sidewalk and she stopped and smelled a rose in someone's side yard. She actually stopped to smell the roses. It made me really happy to see her do that. I mean, you hear the expression all the time but have you ever actually SEEN someone really do it? I love it. Love love love. It was a good reminder to me to deep breathe and just take recent life happenings a little at a time. And when stressful things are going on, stop and smell the roses.