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A body at rest tends to stay at rest
Mar. 2nd, 2018 03:39 pmOr rather, a body out of the habit of posting tends to stay out of the habit of posting. I mean, dang, self. Four months?
So the holidays were the busiest times as usual, swelling to absorb all the spare hours and then some. I had intentions of doing a Festivids treat, having bowed out of the regular entry, and then just didn't. Looking back, taking a week off between Christmas and New Year's and stepping back from all email and social media felt restful at the time, but has left me scrambling to catch up. My email backlog is still embarrassing, half my open tabs are Yuletide recs that I'll get around to someday (y'know, with all the recs from previous years still lingering around somewhere), and I don't think I was caught up with DW reading for most of January, and of course I couldn't post if I wasn't caught up! (Self. Oh self.)
I managed to avoid the overwhelming cold/bronchitis/monstrual tidal wave of last January/February, which, THANK GOODNESS. I got a runner-up cold plus blocked salivary gland instead. (Necks shouldn't look like you've had a golf ball implanted under the skin, especially overnight.)
I've been spending most of my mental spoons on a project for work and the kid's accelerated high school application, which added up to a total that I only truly appreciated the size of when they were "done". (The former still has to make it through QA, and the latter is waiting on one teacher rec to arrive in the mail, which was due Wednesday. It's out of my hands now, so blaming myself for not getting them to the teachers in a timely fashion is NOT PRODUCTIVE, self!)
I'm looking at March like my own personal reset, a January take 2, if you will. Coming off a long, gloomy, and precipitous winter (I would have much preferred to see all that rain as SNOW, like a proper winter, TYVM), spring is a natural beginning for me, with the shiny flag of my birthday waving at the end. So I'm lining up my intentions and taking the first steps, starting with posting. Hi and happy Friday!
So the holidays were the busiest times as usual, swelling to absorb all the spare hours and then some. I had intentions of doing a Festivids treat, having bowed out of the regular entry, and then just didn't. Looking back, taking a week off between Christmas and New Year's and stepping back from all email and social media felt restful at the time, but has left me scrambling to catch up. My email backlog is still embarrassing, half my open tabs are Yuletide recs that I'll get around to someday (y'know, with all the recs from previous years still lingering around somewhere), and I don't think I was caught up with DW reading for most of January, and of course I couldn't post if I wasn't caught up! (Self. Oh self.)
I managed to avoid the overwhelming cold/bronchitis/monstrual tidal wave of last January/February, which, THANK GOODNESS. I got a runner-up cold plus blocked salivary gland instead. (Necks shouldn't look like you've had a golf ball implanted under the skin, especially overnight.)
I've been spending most of my mental spoons on a project for work and the kid's accelerated high school application, which added up to a total that I only truly appreciated the size of when they were "done". (The former still has to make it through QA, and the latter is waiting on one teacher rec to arrive in the mail, which was due Wednesday. It's out of my hands now, so blaming myself for not getting them to the teachers in a timely fashion is NOT PRODUCTIVE, self!)
I'm looking at March like my own personal reset, a January take 2, if you will. Coming off a long, gloomy, and precipitous winter (I would have much preferred to see all that rain as SNOW, like a proper winter, TYVM), spring is a natural beginning for me, with the shiny flag of my birthday waving at the end. So I'm lining up my intentions and taking the first steps, starting with posting. Hi and happy Friday!
