Making the best of everything

I was all ready to head back to SF today after being gone 3 weeks. Got to the airport and the lady told me I needed a negative COVID test to fly despite being vaccinated. I argued with her that the website(s) that I looked at said you didn’t need a test until starting tomorrow, but in the end I was apparently wrong. The CDC website was misleading in that it failed to mention that the change going into effect tomorrow was reducing the testing window from 3 to 1 days rather than actually implementing a testing rule.

I tried to rebook to another flight later today, but the next flight back to SF was tomorrow morning. As most can imagine, I was freakin’ pissed. I was going to have to spend another day in Estonia. I had been sleeping 4 hours a night over the last week and I was already exhausted and wanted to be home. Woe is I.

I took 10 minutes to digest everything and start planning how I was going to “survive” another day when it all came and hit me at once. I get to spend another day in Tallinn, Estonia. I had just tweeted that it was one of the coolest towns I’ve been to and now I upset that I was forced to spend another day here. Man, I felt like an idiot.

Perhaps I was just a bit cranky and it took me awhile to realize that my vacation just got extended unintentionally. I quickly got some new life. Booked a COVID test back in town. Booked a nice hotel with a spa. Booked the KGB museum tour that I didn’t get to yesterday. I now have another full day of exploring Tallinn.

Yes, I’m still tired. Yes, the work is still there. But I can sleep and work any day… but traveling Tallinn is something that can’t happen all the time.

It was a good life lesson in positive thinking for me. I’m glad I was able to catch myself and turn my mindset around. Not everything will go according to plan and I need to make of everything in life no matter how frustrating or whose fault it is.

Monday will be a busy day and I’ll be recovering in sleep all week, but for now, let’s have a freakin’ great day.