Have you ever noticed that just when you think you are getting a handle on a problem.....your whole day starts going south ( it's as if the Lord is testing your resolve.)

Yesterday I learned some lessons about contentment. Today I learned that I didn't learn the lessons as well as I should have.

Work was full of frustrations and unmet expectations. Tempers were short and I seemed to get caught in the cross fire a time or two.

On top of all that we were finally told that we could pick up our car from the mechanic. He has been rebuilding our transmission for the last 6 weeks.

Mechanic: Your car is fixed!

Mr. Wonderful: Great, we will pick it up this afternoon.

Mechanic: You really should get license plates for your vehicle.

Mr. Wonderful: We have license plates on our car.

Mechanic: Well if you did, someone has stolen them cause there aren't any on it now.

Mr. Wonderful: What! Did you call the sheriff and report it?

Mechanic: No, should I? This has never happened to me before.

This conversation occurred about 4:30 this afternoon. Still no car and it looks like we will be camping out at the DMV tomorrow trying to get a replacement. Meanwhile my overactive imagination can just visualize the police at my door because someone has seen my license plates on a car that just committed a felony.

Normally in times of great frustration and stress I turned to my best friends (Ben and Jerry for a pint!) As frustrating as the day had been it wasn't even an option for me. I came home mad and irritable so I chopped up vegetables and an onion ( I needed a good cry) for a shrimp stir-fry. It was wonderful, colorful, and filling. All the chopping and dicing took away my need to self-medicate on ice cream or other sugary treats.

So maybe I wasn't as discontent as I thought ......or maybe the message is starting to sink in. What do you do to get rid of anger ? Which one of the 7 Dwarfs would you be.....Angry, Moody, Grumpy, Whiney, Irritable, Peevish, or Put Upon?