Balance

The past weeks have been almost exclusively work & kittens.

Slowly, very slowly, I’m starting to find some time again for other things, like reading or going to see a movie.

Ah, that elusive thing called balance…

Work was bad yesterday and today. A million things all at once. Stayed a long time. Not happy with that.

1. Vacation is coming.
2. Kittens will be here.

What a weekend… looking back it seems I simply stopped at one point and am just now regaining awareness again.

Okay, I don’t mean to over-dramatize here… what happened was that we got the combination of weather my body is apparently least equipped to handle: Heat, Super-high humidity and no sun. I can handle any two of those, but apparently not all of them at once. The result was instant zombification.

What it meant though was that I didn’t get the relaxation or the sleep I had hoped for. On top of that everything I had meant to do has piled up and is starting to take on a mountain-like shape.

Well, it’s better now, at least it was sunny today and I feel more like myself. Now I’m trying to balance work with starting to tackle that mountain. One step at a time…

from work as is happening lately sure messes up my day. I can hardly manage anything at home anymore.

What adds to the feeling of frustration is that most of my time at work seems to be spent with dealing with peripheral stuff, not my main task.

Whine, whine ;)

my stress level reached a new peak, it wasn’t pretty… I guess the good thing is that a peak means it had to get less again today – which it did.

I now want to make a list of things I can do, without much planning, that are known stress-reducers, so I have something in hand, for the next time this threatens to happen.

my workload increased several weeks back, I have for the most part not been able to follow any of my goals. And it doesn’t look like this will lessen anytime soon.

I end up not having any time and/or energy left on workdays. And I need the weekends to simply recover.

I have been trying to compensate by planning little getaways on some weekends. This has certainly helped, I’m sure I’d be worse now otherwise. But it doesn’t seem to last very long.

At the moment I am at a loss on ways to find more balance between work and home.

This is why I have joined this goal now. I hope this will prompt me to think about solutions on a more conscious level.