Appreciating Sundays
I never gave much thought about weekends until we bought the house. As a renter we never had a “to do” list since the landlords would always take care of repairs (I actually laughed while typing that) and we would never make an investment into the outside appearance since we knew our stay would be brief. In fact I never really looked forward to the weekends.
That has changed. I know that I can’t get everything done in one weekend and as my brother said “pace yourself or you’ll go nuts.” Every night we seem to have something new to do but I expect that to be normal since we need to get settled. The basement needs a lot of work still since Capt. Obvious left half of his crap down there when he moved out and that will be the big project this week. After that comes sorting everything that we did put down there and finally getting the workbench in some kind of order.
We’ve already started yard work and I can now understand “working for the weekend”. I’ve always had myself on-call 24×7 and would do career related work all of the time. Now I’m finding that balance where once my workday ends, it ends. I don’t come home and log in to keep on going. Some of you might be thinking “well no kidding, dumbass” but honestly I never shut down before. I never knew how to relax.
When I get home at night I have time for dinner, play with the kid for a little bit and then spend 2-3 hours on homework for school. Mix in all of Should I Drink That/craft beer duties and that makes for one full schedule. I already say no to a lot of functions and I may need to start doing that even more.
I’m making it a point to have my Saturdays for work around the house and Sundays to kick back and spend time with my family. Teaspoon and daddy really like sharing nap time and I need to make sure this place is ready for a special arrival in January.
We’ll see how long this works. I absolutely love my job and with the fall coming I know there will be a lot of extra hours to put in so I need to sit down and figure out a schedule.
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