A good thing

Had a very good thought process today after a long, long and difficult day at work.  Let me start with yesterday.  Yesterday I was at a day-long continuing education conference and my phone is going berserk so I check it and see it's one of my employees.  Now, we are closed on Sunday so I knew it wasn't insanely urgent and work related but I responded to her promptly.  Ended up she fell and was going to need a few days off work to recover.  So amid the conference I arrange to get an employee from our other facility to work and all is good.  Today I got to work and the internet was down.  It was down til noon then we were only able to process claims sporadically the rest of the day.  On top of that my "help" that was filling in was very very slow when the internet was up so it took him almost all day to process claims so we couldn't do much of anything until he was done with that.  It was a long and stressful day.  So I was gathering my stuff up to go and I thought "Should I stop and get some beer?  it's been a rough day-  Nahh, I'll be fine, I'd rather not be intoxicated anyhow." Even when I'm having a bad day I prefer sobriety.  That's a good change of things.  It was a nice affirmation that I am moving in the right direction and learning to better deal with problems.  Even the problem of missing someone you love.