March 7, 2014
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Weekend Plans
I feel a little selfish for what I am going to do this weekend. A little.
For the first time since I can remember, I have no commitments or responsibilities starting at noon today through Saturday. Not a single one. I even turned down a couple events for tonight and tomorrow. I feel somewhat guilty and thought, I could and should go to them and be social but it’s not happening.
I have a list of things I should and need to do but I’m putting it on hold. For a day and a half.
At noon, I’m treating myself to a massage (only $35 for an hour) then heading home. I thought about going to get a pedicure but that seems like more work, so I scratched that off the mental list. I put dinner in the crockpot before I left this morning and I’m staying home and relaxing. Which entails but isn’t limited to: cleaning my place (it’s a disaster)…doing dishes, laundry and so on (which is actually relaxing to me, when it’s a disaster it stresses me out) – that, you’re already dirty and not going anywhere, so you can get down and dirty while cleaning kind of clean (yeah, I love that), sleeping and catching up on some DVR’d TV. Tonight, I’m going to sleep and NOT setting an alarm. I’m dreaming of waking up in a nasty but glorious puddle of drool. I may very well be up at 7 AM (which is sleeping in quite a bit) but have a relaxing morning and laid back day with no responsibilities, speaking engagements to prep for or leaving for basketball practice.
I’m also getting sick because I’ve been pushing myself so much the last 6 months (and more), it’s shutting down at the first sign of relaxing. I’m thankful it didn’t, at all, during this crazy busy time in my life. Thanks God!
For the last 2 months, I’ve been looking forward to this weekend for exactly this. The things you get excited for as an adult are pretty sad sometime. I’m sure it gets worse when you become a parent and going to the bathroom in peace because an occasion to brag about. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE people and investing in them but I’m an introvert at heart and crave that time alone.
To a relaxing weekend. Sunday I will jump back on the bandwagon and into social life again.
