Chit Chat: Feeling Spent

I am so over the glorification of being busy. Everyone is busy. I like being productive. I love the feeling that comes with putting forth effort and seeing the resulting accomplishments but I hate being busy and I take no pride in overextending myself with an overbooked calendar.

The last couple months have been particularly jammed packed and stressful for me. Work has been nonstop and refusing to slow down. Plus a side project that I have has also been piling it on, which I am thankful for (the extra income is really nice) but I am finding it harder and harder to meet the demands of everything and it is nearly impossible to fit everything on my calendar.

Last Friday when I made it home from work I was grumpy, irritated, and exhausted. I called this being spent because that is exactly how I was feeling. All my energy used up with nothing else to give.

Although I knew it would have been wise to use this weekend to schedule a few blog posts for this week, doing errands, cleaning my embarrassingly messy house, and getting a jump start on work for this weekend I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I felt like even I tried it would have been half-hearted attempts with subpar results. I have yet to even look at my inbox in days simply because I know it is going to be incredibly overwhelming.

This weekend I shutdown. I slept more than I have in months. During the times between naps I read and caught up on the shows on my DVR. That is it. I feel like I needed this weekend in order to make it through the next few weeks so I took it. I may regret not powering through more work in the upcoming days right now I know I made the right decision.

How do you handle feeling spent?

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Chit Chat: Exhaustion

Last week was brutal and I am not really feeling like this week is going to be any better. I am not sure if I would go as far to say that I am burned out or wore down but there is no question that I feel frazzled and exhausted. All week I did my best to try to power through the week but each task was a struggle.

I was and am so tired. My body aches. I have not been sleeping well. I feel drained physically and mentally.

I feel like at work and in life I am currently pulled in a million directions. Everything at work is stacking up and although I sat in front of my desk for hours each day last week I just was not processing all of the research, motions, and memorandums I was reading. I was massively unproductive despite putting in even more hours trying to work than typical. Lately it has been feeling like every single moment is booked and that I never have a moment just to pause.

Right now I just really need a break. I need sleep. I need a few days where my to do list is not looming over my head and I can rest and feel at peace. I am not sure when this break can occur but I feel like a time to recharge needs to occur soon.

How do you recharge when time is limited?

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Taking Back Sunday

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Although the weekend just ended I am still exhausted from last week. I normally have long work days and Saturdays are full of doing errands that I lacked time for during the week. Sundays are normally the only time that I have to relax and enjoy some peaceful, quiet time.

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This past weekend was a blur of activity. Sunday night as I was still doing laundry at 11 pm, I thought about how I hadn't had the relaxing Sunday that I desperately needed and I realized that I was going to have long week ahead of me.

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To me Sundays are meant for catching up on much needed sleep and waking up with the sunlight shining in your window.

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Followed by having my only breakfast of the week that doesn't consist of something similar to a banana and string cheese being grabbed as I rush out of the door.

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Enjoying the feeling of not being rushed and forgetting about the millions of things that I have to do while maybe catching up on some reading or a favorite tv show that I missed earlier in the week.

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Then maybe an afternoon stroll or enjoying some sunshine while sitting on the deck.

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I love cooking a nice meal for dinner on Sundays because it may be the last time I have a home cooked meal for the week. I love to cook (although I hate cleaning up and doing dishes but that is another story).

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Then hopefully before bed there is a little time for checking up on some blogs I love to read and plan a couple posts for the upcoming week.

To me this is a perfect Sunday. What do you like to do on Sundays?

♥ Sunny