Bleh! - Just Bleh!

I'm feeling a bit cracked today. DH is angry at the world - his football team, although playing fairly well, lost this week, and his hockey team hasn't been playing up to expectations (they ended up losing again last night - that's two games in a row, so not good!). Of course, when he's angry, he'll take it out on his bridge game on his phone (which he yells at constantly) and on me. 

I don't know for sure which Bridge game 
program he plays on his phone, but he 
gets intensely angry at it for not 
following convention. I haven't 
played bridge for years and years, 
and have no interest in it at all. 
I play solitaire - in many varieties. 

Last night, he got up from bed and started to put on his robe to go downstairs because he was so angry at me. All I did was ask him why he bothered playing the stupid game if he couldn't play it without anger. Apparently that was the wrong question to ask. Bleh! Since it was 8:30 pm and I was only a half-hour away from my normal bedtime anyway, I told him I was leaving, and I went downstairs. He stayed upstairs and I went to sleep. 

Bleh - just, Bleh!

Around 11:30 pm I awakened stressed to the max about closing the store - how it will go, how to handle it, how to actually sell the stuff instead of have it "walk away" and how to handle the long receipts and long check-out times because the actual sales will be relatively slow. Our computers are hanging in there, but there isn't any easier way to check people out. 

I have several small bottles on my computer shelving 
containing white opal chips. They have distilled water 
in them to keep the opals moist. That moisture is 
essential to keeping the flash in low-grade opals and 
the bottles were only $5, so I know they're not 
very high grade. I'm beginning to feel as if I'm a 
bottle of opal chips where the water has evaporated. 
I'm losing my flash. I'm finding that very 
depressing. 

So I sat up with my phone, did a little research on people who can help organize something of this nature, and felt a bit better. I tried to get back to sleep, and couldn't manage it. I finally found one of the hypnosis relaxation meditations I had used when I had stressed over getting my tattoo, and settled in. I didn't fall asleep within 10 minutes like before, but I was asleep before the full hour's hypnosis was completed, and I slept through until my alarm came on at 3:15 am. 

At least I have swimming today. That's always a positive 
thing. I get a lot worked out in the water of the pool. 

So now I'm dressed for the swimming pool, and I'm going to wrap this up and head out in a few minutes to get into the water and get some exercise. I think I really need to get some more angst out, and I really need to put some serious thought and effort into how we can close effectively. All I know right now is that it won't be easy. At all. Have an excellent start to your week and I'll be back tomorrow.