Holiday day 2 and 3
Aug. 3rd, 2020 05:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenaySo, in news that may not surprise many people, it's turning out that I am TERRIBLE at just relaxing and resting. Who knew?
My final rover shift yesterday was pretty easy and then I was definitely going to spend the day relaxing and reading. Definitely. News flash: I did not. I found all sorts of chores to do around the house and took Mum out for a walk. I did manage to persuade myself to order takeout for supper instead of cooking, so that's a tiny bit of progress? And there was an episode of The Untamed in the evening, which I'll post about separately.
This was despite the exhaustion wall that fell on me around noon. Apparently, my response to that is not "let's have a nap", it's "no, this unacceptable, FIND SOME WORK TO DO".
Today I was definitely going to sleep in a bit, relax over my Monday latte delivery, maybe poke a little at the garden and otherwise largely just read and maybe nap.
I woke up at 5.30am, which has been a theme for a few weeks now even though I don't need to wake up until 7am. I finally drifted off again just after 7am for an hour, so I guess that was an improvement! The Monday latte worked out and then I went to poke the garden.
Which turned into mowing front and back lawns, trimming the hedge at the front, planting out some carrot seeds (might be too late in the year, might not, we'll see), deadheading and tying things back and...well, three hours of hard labour in the hot sunshine. The reading on the sofa plan has felt like surprisingly hard work because I keep thinking there must be something more productive I can do. Hopefully I'll get better at that.
I did manage to resist the temptation to check work emails and slack. Go me.
This evening it's group Xena watch night, so that's going to be fun :D
I just need to make the relaxing and resting part of the next week feel less like hard work. I'm genuinely exhausted and trying to prevent burn out here. Come on brain, stop trying to find work to do!
My final rover shift yesterday was pretty easy and then I was definitely going to spend the day relaxing and reading. Definitely. News flash: I did not. I found all sorts of chores to do around the house and took Mum out for a walk. I did manage to persuade myself to order takeout for supper instead of cooking, so that's a tiny bit of progress? And there was an episode of The Untamed in the evening, which I'll post about separately.
This was despite the exhaustion wall that fell on me around noon. Apparently, my response to that is not "let's have a nap", it's "no, this unacceptable, FIND SOME WORK TO DO".
Today I was definitely going to sleep in a bit, relax over my Monday latte delivery, maybe poke a little at the garden and otherwise largely just read and maybe nap.
I woke up at 5.30am, which has been a theme for a few weeks now even though I don't need to wake up until 7am. I finally drifted off again just after 7am for an hour, so I guess that was an improvement! The Monday latte worked out and then I went to poke the garden.
Which turned into mowing front and back lawns, trimming the hedge at the front, planting out some carrot seeds (might be too late in the year, might not, we'll see), deadheading and tying things back and...well, three hours of hard labour in the hot sunshine. The reading on the sofa plan has felt like surprisingly hard work because I keep thinking there must be something more productive I can do. Hopefully I'll get better at that.
I did manage to resist the temptation to check work emails and slack. Go me.
This evening it's group Xena watch night, so that's going to be fun :D
I just need to make the relaxing and resting part of the next week feel less like hard work. I'm genuinely exhausted and trying to prevent burn out here. Come on brain, stop trying to find work to do!
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Date: 2020-08-03 08:51 pm (UTC)Good luck getting some rest. ♥
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Date: 2020-08-03 09:02 pm (UTC)Now I just need to try this whole "sleep past 5.30am" concept. I'm sure I'll definitely manage it this time. Maybe.