I must learn to be less accommodating.

What a day.

I spent the morning doing the maid's money transfer back to Indonesia, from going to the bank to withdraw the money, to going to the post office to have it sent off through Western Union. And after we did all that (I wondered at the unseemly rush) the maid tells me, oh, today is a public holiday in Indonesia, they don't work on Saturday and Sunday, so the earliest her family can access the money is on Monday.

Instead of having to run around madly, trying to complete MY errands as well as see to the maid's request, I could have pushed that money transfer to Monday, and then life would have gone on a nice, even pace.

*sigh*

I truly wonder at the Maid's Mental Capacity.

Perhaps the lesson I should take away from this is:

I am not a slave to the maid, nor to anyone else except myself.
I should see to MY needs first.
I should remember that this maid has no cow sense, and therefore I need to ASK and QUESTION thoroughly, before I plan to do any running around, and that HER stuff had better fit in with MY time, and not the other way around.

I am too obliging.

I have too many lessons to learn. *bleah*