Life is starting to settle into a routine again (ahh, sweet sweet consistency)... just in time for the weekends to get busy with tailgates, trip to the mountains and soon enough, holiday preparations. Last week Matt had to work 12 hour shifts (night ones too) so we've been high fiving on the front steps as he comes home and I take off, and having about an hour together after work - sometimes long enough for dinner, sometimes not.
There's one person who's been quite happy about this - the Budster. After spending 8 hours asleep with me, he gets a walk and a bowl of breakfast and then he's back in bed for another 8 hours with Matt.
After a busy Friday and Saturday - pizza/movie/vino with my friend Lauren, a 5k in the morning with Heather and her boyfriend, and rushing around getting ready for and going to the tailgate - I crashed hard on Sunday. I'd been feeling hints of tired all weekend, and then I think I got dehydrated on Saturday (running followed by Gulp-size diet coke followed by tailgate beer... not so brilliant.) Every time I tried to go vertical on Sunday, my head protested vehemently.
As delightful as spending another 8 hours in bed was to the Buddy, it was frustrating to me. Didn't my body know I had dishes to clean?! There was remnants of artichoke dip plastered on every pot I owned. Laundry to fold! Floors to be swiffered! And then there were blogs to be written and papers to be filed - I still haven't put away 4 years worth of an office that I brought home from WFU and dumped in my guest room. My blessed hubby has not taken up my dad's strategy of dealing with annoying piles of crap - that is to say, I have not found my stuff dumped in the outside garbage can.
Yet.
After I roiled around for a few hours being mad at the world that the ONE DAY where I had nothing on my agenda, I couldn't even stay upright, I finally accepted the situation and took a nap.
A five hour nap.
I know, poor me, right?
(Before I fell asleep, I desperately Googled "emergency housecleaning service" thinking MAYBE just maybe if I could find someone to clean my house while I slept MAYBE just maybe I would feel less guilty about sleeping. It's not as my house is usually eat off the floor clean, and I’m super particular about it, but it was a bomb, y’all.)
So I slept. I slept, I slept and I slept and I woke up intermittedly to text my mom or answer a phone call from Matt and would test my upright powers.
"Can I stand up yet with no headache? Nope. Okay, back to bed."
Finally around six, I felt functional and was able to clean up the kitchen, do a few loads of laundry and blog. (Priorities... the floor can get swiffered lately, I had to blog, yall.) Matt came home a few hours later with dinner/lunch and a big ol’ Gatorade for me.
Of course, after sleeping most of the day awake I was wide awake at what should have been bedtime, so of course, I fretted about that and how I would already be starting the week with a sleep deficit if I couldn't fall asleep soon.
Go with the flow is not really my specialty - are you picking up on that?
I finally feel like I’m starting to find into a routine with my work schedule, which is most excellent as this week somehow became jam packed with extracurriculars. I haven't felt "ready" so to speak to take on the extras the first couple weeks, and I still feel a little bit overwhelmed, but I’m getting there. I mean, if ever there was a week to take! on! the! world! it would be right after a 5 hour nap, right?
Does everyone take so long to adjust to new routines as I do? In college, I often felt like by the time I got a hang of my schedule – it’d practically be midterms. I guess the problem isn’t so much that I take awhile to adjust to a new routine, it’s that I berate myself for *not* having adjusted yet. As if, somehow in my 28 years of routine-loving-living, one day I might wake up and find oh hey! I rock at flying by the seat of my pants now! Wouldn’t it be a whole lot easier if I just accepted that this is who I am, and anything new makes me wonky for at least a good six weeks?
Acceptance. A novel idea. Something that a life coach might encourage people to do? Weird.
No comments:
Post a Comment