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ladyspriteSo I'm facing a pair of conflicting goals in my life right now... and at the same time, I've somehow managed to balance them this weekend. I'm not quite sure how, but I'm not going to complain.
After spending over a week in January too sick to function, and most of December decidedly unhealthy, I finally decided to accept that maybe running at redline wasn't quite the wisest way to spend my life. (Yes, I know I've been confronted with this lesson before. In every life, there are some lessons we learn quickly and some that we need to be bludgeoned with repeatedly before they sink into our somewhat resistant skulls. This is one of the latter, for me.) So I've decided to do my best to kind of slow the heck down, and maybe not take on SO many projects at once.
At the same time, I also realized that I spent way too much of 2011 in a fairly small social bubble, interacting with about 3 or 4 people almost exclusively, and not finding enough time to spend with many other people whom I wanted to share my life with. And so I've also decided that, for 2012, one of my goals is to find time to spend with people I don't see often enough.
The challenge here is not to go so crazy filling up my schedule with social events that I wear myself out, fail to find time to take care of myself, my house, and my pets, or forget to spend time with my husband. Given my tendency to take everything to eleven, this is a fairly serious challenge.
I managed to juggle it well this weekend, though. Dinner and brunch with good friends I haven't seen near enough of, and afternoon socializing with others, still left me enough time at home to cuddle my husband and my cats and finish the truly awesome book I was reading - I had forgotten how good it felt to be able to just curl up with a book that was so enthralling that I couldn't pull myself away, and actually have the time to read for an hour or two.
And now I'm making dinner, and planning meals for the week, yet more things I hadn't found as much time to do as I would have liked to. I don't know how long I'll be able to keep up this level of calm; I'm sure something will send me into hyperdrive before too long. But for now, I'm going to enjoy the heck out of it....
After spending over a week in January too sick to function, and most of December decidedly unhealthy, I finally decided to accept that maybe running at redline wasn't quite the wisest way to spend my life. (Yes, I know I've been confronted with this lesson before. In every life, there are some lessons we learn quickly and some that we need to be bludgeoned with repeatedly before they sink into our somewhat resistant skulls. This is one of the latter, for me.) So I've decided to do my best to kind of slow the heck down, and maybe not take on SO many projects at once.
At the same time, I also realized that I spent way too much of 2011 in a fairly small social bubble, interacting with about 3 or 4 people almost exclusively, and not finding enough time to spend with many other people whom I wanted to share my life with. And so I've also decided that, for 2012, one of my goals is to find time to spend with people I don't see often enough.
The challenge here is not to go so crazy filling up my schedule with social events that I wear myself out, fail to find time to take care of myself, my house, and my pets, or forget to spend time with my husband. Given my tendency to take everything to eleven, this is a fairly serious challenge.
I managed to juggle it well this weekend, though. Dinner and brunch with good friends I haven't seen near enough of, and afternoon socializing with others, still left me enough time at home to cuddle my husband and my cats and finish the truly awesome book I was reading - I had forgotten how good it felt to be able to just curl up with a book that was so enthralling that I couldn't pull myself away, and actually have the time to read for an hour or two.
And now I'm making dinner, and planning meals for the week, yet more things I hadn't found as much time to do as I would have liked to. I don't know how long I'll be able to keep up this level of calm; I'm sure something will send me into hyperdrive before too long. But for now, I'm going to enjoy the heck out of it....
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