I’m back again! Not as early today as I would have wanted to be. The boys are having a sleepover tonight at a friend’s house, so we drove them over there this morning. This friend goes to their school, but when his parents divorced his mom moved about 50 minutes from us, as it’s closer to her work. So that kind of sucked up 2 hours of our morning, but they are happy to be able to hang out with a friend all day and night.
I’m still not 100% back to my perky self. BTW, I am almost always a very positive and upbeat person, which is why this is totally messing with me. Yesterday helped. I made the boys annual physical appointments, cleaned out the emails (very much needed!), paid some bills and cleaned up my personal to do list. I also ran two errands having a Scout form signed off at the church and went to the library as I had an email that I needed to renew my library card. When I was at the library, I also roamed the shelves and found four books to borrow. I really loved the picture I took of the library stacks. This truly is a happy place and uplifted my mood a little!
I also listened to most of Chalene Johnson’s recent podcast with Mel Robbins. I love Mel Robbins! I feel like her and I could be such good friends in real life if we ever met. The podcast was all about taking control of your anxiety and her new book “The High Five Habit.” I did also join the Mel Robbins High Five Challenge for next week. Sounds like exactly what I need right now!
Work-wise, I was on vacation for the day, but I did check in on a production issue that is going on. It wasn’t resolved, but it seems like it’s on the right track and I figured I’d wait for Monday to check again. I received an email yesterday that was a bit disheartening. Apparently they created a report of who wasn’t coming into the office 50% of the time. Kind of frustrating as the report was created from data that was the first two weeks of September, when I knew I wasn’t coming in and things were a bit crazy both home and work. After that, I decided not to clean up my work to do list and leave that for Monday. I do need to figure out how to create some boundaries with work. I think that is becoming clear. It is so easy to focus on work though, where you can see the tangible results, whereas not so much with other personal work.
This morning, I did kind of blow up again at my husband (Tom). He’s been super great through all this. He knows it’s not him and we’ll work through this together. I was still reeling from the news that our daughter got let go from her job as a server last night. It’s the first time we’ve asked her to work while she’s in school and she was very frustrated that it happened. She gave them her school schedule and they kept scheduling her on Thursdays and Fridays when she was supposed to be in a lab. Thursday this week, she went to work and knew she could make up the lab later, but then Friday, she asked someone to take her shift and when no one would, she told them she would have to come in late. They told her she should have put her school schedule in some app they have, but they told her they knew they never told her. She called me last night on her drive home from work, and I stayed on with her until she got home to her apartment. I told her to go cuddle her cat, since her boyfriend was working. Tom was asleep already when she called, so I got to hold on to this news until this morning, and then I freaked out again on him. We made an agreement to take a look at the to do list and start tackling more of the items together after I finish this post. We also sent a text to our daughter to make sure she knew we both love her and she can get another job. There are so many places on campus to work as a server.
I truly am committed to getting in a better mood. I know things are tough right now, but they will get better. Looking forward to spending some time with my honey today tackling what needs to get done and getting our life back on track!
I’m also looking for some additional thoughts on self care and things I can do (on the cheap!) to take care of myself, mentally and physically. I’ll probably go for a walk today after I get some things done. What do you like to do when you are stressed and need a little downtime? Appreciate all the advice. I’m sure I’ll try it!
