The Necessity of Rest
It’s not lazy to do what you need to do.
I had Friday and Monday off work for Memorial Day this year. Lucky, I know. Don’t worry, I paid my dues working holiday weekends for many years, those of you who like to keep track of such things. I know how fortunate I am and I appreciate it. No need to comment and point that out.
Anyway, I had plans for this weekend. We have a huge street sale coming up next week that I wanted to get ready for. I have an event on Friday to prepare for and a house to clean in anticipation of meeting a Child’s New Girlfriend in the next week or so. I also wanted to get to the lake to see family.
Some of that happened. Most didn’t.
What happened? I was exhausted. I chose to rest.
I have a lengthy history of overextending myself. The problem is, I have too many things I want to do and not enough time to do them all. In addition to my teaching job which takes a massive amount of energy (8th grade. I’ll leave that there), I’m heavily, and happily, involved with my community theatre. We just finished a huge show, La Cage au Folles. If you’re not familiar, it’s a really important show about accepting who you are and not hiding it. It also has a lot of beautiful drag queens who need wigs and the maintenance that goes with them. I was part of the team that helped with the wigs and while I…
