Lyrics: “Polaroid Picture” – Frank Turner, 2013
Back from a weekend away with friends and while that was quite relaxing and recharging, my mind too quickly went into a bit of an overdrive. Work and life and all that. I had to head into the office yesterday and the day did not go as I had originally planned. Urgent team meetings, finalizing tasks for a coworker who’s on vacation, “can you comment on this report ASAP” request, callback on of the coworker’s task just when I had wanted to leave the office. It was good though as it cleared my schedule for today. More or less anyway.
But my mind still feels a bit all over the place and I could definitely use more time off soon. Which I sadly won’t be able to take until mid-September. I’ll try to not stress about work too much till then and definitely make use of the 15 or so hours of overtime I’ve got this year so far. Work an hour or two less each week and not feel guilty about it, because I’ve earned the hours off for the overtime hours I’ve worked before. But I sometimes still like I’m “slacking off”, even though that’s not what I do. Ugh! I talked to a male coworker about that a while ago and was surprised that he felt the same way. I always thought it were predominately women who felt like that.
Anyway, back to that lovely weekend. We had lots of yummy food… (More than this here, I didn’t always pull out the camera).
…we played games, we had massages, we relaxed…
… we explored the surroundings.
I should do those mini-breaks more often. I should definitely get a massage more often. And I need to definitely get more sleep. Over and out.
