Besides all the work related appointments (meetings, interviews etc) I’ve had a busy personal life as well. We’ve had several team handball games (my son’s) to watch, and we had a full family dinner at my sister’s place one Sunday. We went to see a PTE play one night, and went to the Santa Claus Parade one night. We saw my new little nephew get baptized last Sunday,
I’m meeting up with an old school friend, who I haven’t seen in 25 years for coffee tomorrow night, and Jaxx & I are going to see Walking with the Dinosaurs on Thursday night, and attending parent -teacher conference Friday night. When you mix these in with the regular things like Tae kwon do on Mondays & Thursdays, Swimming on Tuesdays, and Dancing on Saturdays, we’ve been on the go alot. Oh, and also add my son’s 2 dr appointments, and my dentist and dr appointments to the list. Is it any wonder I’m tired?
I’m always tired though. I wake up and I’m still tired. I drag around all day at work, and I’m yawning all day. I try to drink tea for the caffeine. I actually have sat at my desk, rested my head on my hands, and started to nod off. Good thing when my neck jerked, I woke up. I go home at night, and I could sleep before supper if they’d let me. After supper, if there isn’t someplace to run out to, I often fall asleep while watching TV. And when I do crawl into bed, it’s only a few mere minutes before I’m fast asleep. No, sleeping is not a problem for me; staying awake is the problem for me!
Sometimes I resent how much there is to do at home too. On any night when there isn’t one of the aforementioned functions to go to, we still find something that needs to be done. From running to Walmart to pick up a few things, to building 2 bought pre-fab armoires, to Christmas shopping, to steam cleaning the carpets, to shovelling snow…the list goes on. There are a ton of things that are on our todo list as well: paint the bathroom, put baseboards on the bathroom, paint the hall, paint the kitchen, and paint our bedroom. We’d ultimately like to get new carpets put in.
There’s our basement which doubles as Jaxx’s Mom’s apartment and a storage area. It is so crowded, and Jaxx says we have to do something with all our stuff to make more room for her mom. I don’t know what she thinks we’re going to do with it? We have run out of space in our house and garage and breezeway. There’s also the outside to worry about: paint the stucco on the house, paint the garage, and get the roof of the garage and the house redone.
I know these are necessary things that need to be done, but it just feels like we never have any down time. I know Jaxx has ants in her pants. She can never sit still. She ALWAYS has some project going that in her mind, needs to be done NOW. She doesn’t enjoy watching TV or reading, or doing a jigsaw puzzle, or a sodoku puzzle, or any such relaxing things to do. I, on the other hand, love having the time to do all those things. An enjoyable saturday for me would be sleeping in, catching up on some programs that I’ve taped over the weekend, read awhile, have a little nap, read the paper, maybe work on a puzzle, enjoy some time on the computer. But a typical saturday is nothing like that.
Some people say “there will be plenty of time to sleep when you’re dead”. I don’t want to die until I’m at least in my 70’s or 80’s. But, honestly, there are some days I wish that would happen sooner than later. I’m tired.
I’m just venting. That’s what these blogs are supposed to be right? A chance to vent, and no one reads it anyways. Except maybe Jaxx. I don’t know if she still does, but she was reading my blog for awhile.
I need to go get another cup of tea.
Later
