Hello? Who’s there? What time is it? What year is it? What’s my name? What planet am I on?
Maybe I am exaggerating how disoriented I feel after last week, but only a smidgen. I am not sure I can really put into words how hectic, crazy, exhausting, and completely draining last week was.
Now, it wasn’t a bad week. Nothing horrible happened. It was just like a million things needed to be done at work, and they all needed to be done at the same time, on a tight timeline. Preferably yesterday, for most things. Being on full-speed-ahead all day long, five days straight, burned me out fast. By the time I got home each evening, I didn’t want to think, move, or exert any energy whatsoever if it wasn’t crucial to survival.
Needless to say, my workouts last week were non-existent, at least, if you don’t count sprinting hysterically around the office like a chicken on crack with its head cut off. Meal planning, packing my lunch, or anything else that required activity on the part of my frazzled brain were just impossible.
I left work early Friday afternoon for my younger stepson’s football game, and I counted down the minutes all day until that precious time to race out of work and head home for a weekend with my family. There’s not much better therapy than yelling and cheering at a football game.
The kids were home for the weekend, and it felt like a million years since we had seen them. We didn’t have any stellar plans, nothing wild and crazy going on, and I like it that way. I like just staying home, enjoying the weekend with them, listening to my husband transform into a big kid himself as he wrestles with, plays with, teases, torments, and laughs with the kids.
Almost forgot! Last week was crazy, but in the middle of it all, I got the written report of my annual evaluation. I always read it for the first time with a bit of hesitancy, waiting for a piece of criticism, but this one was so positive I nearly blushed. My supervisor said everyone just had good things to say, and she called me a leader at the company. Someone from another organization we work a lot with even added the comment that they hope I don’t go anywhere else, which was nice to hear.
Now, I am hoping for a calmer week this week, with maybe some time to breathe and sleep and fit in some workouts! Time to get back to some semblance of a routine.
Sweat & Sparkle 