This year, I think I may give myself a gift for Christmas, and that is to take off the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. Terry and I have plenty of vacation time and I’m feeling a bit like a candle that’s burning at both ends and the middle. If I time it right, I could take 5 days of vacation and have one very long 12-day weekend. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
I just happened to think about what kinds of crafty things I would like to work on and how it would be lovely to have a commitment-free stretch where I can stitch, knit or work on whatever tickles my fancy. I don’t have to finish anything, I can start new things willy-nilly; the goal is just to have fun. Wouldn’t that be nice?<\/p>\n
The big key will be to keep my mind off of work. Which may be tough to do with all I have going on right now, the loose ends I’m trying to tie up, the new project I’m going to be starting, the old commitments that I’m going to have to still find time for and the people who are all depending on me for something or other. The additional anti-anxiety meds I have might come in handy for that, but hopefully I won’t need them.<\/p>\n
It would just be nice to be free to do whatever I feel like from moment to moment, with no strings attached and nothing to worry about. I haven’t played my flute in a long time, nor have I sung in a while. I haven’t touched knitting needles in many, many months, despite having some new goodies to play with thanks to a certain yarn-enabling friend. Plus, with all of the stitching commitments I’ve been working on lately, it would really be nice to do whatever I want, for once.<\/p>\n
So, I guess I’ll be shooing our houseguests out of the door come Boxing Day! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This year, I think I may give myself a gift for Christmas, and that is to take off the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. Terry and I have plenty of vacation time and I’m feeling a bit like … Continue reading