Tuesday, April 3, 2012

This Workaholic is off the wagon. :(

I'm in the cycle.  Dammit.  This isn't a good thing.  When I'm at the clinic, I struggle to leave.  When I'm at the college, I struggle to leave.  I surf vet sites and our website when I'm not at the clinic, mark papers, surf the college site when I'm not at school.

I have fallen off the wagon and I don't know how to get back on.  I currently have the following things on my personal "to do" list:

  1. Mark papers
  2. Plan Easter dinner and clean the house
  3. Lesson plan
  4. Re-pot umbrella tree
  5. Add soil to money tree pot
  6. Rake yard (and look into ordering big bag o' dirt for top dressing)
  7. Recalculate budget
  8. Start training for Staircase Challenge
  9. Bookkeeping and file HST, prep books for accountant.
  10. Shop for Alyssa's birthday gift.
And that's just between now and Monday (5 days), plus I have to work 12 hrs Thursday and have Run Club Wednesday night.

It feels so good to be busy, but I also feel like the kid that is stuck at the kitchen table doing homework while I see through the window the other kids are playing outside.  How did I break this cycle last time?  What changed?  What did I do?  There has to have been something I just need to find it.  

It's 11:30pm after getting up at 5:30am.  Good lord, I'm tired; that's a long day.  And I'm still surfing the college website for instructions on grading while I type this.  *sigh*  When should I start?  Tomorrow?  Monday?  I'm on holidays from the clinic and already have plans to work my butt off next week.  So Monday.  Monday, I prioritize.  Monday, I step back and really look at what I'm doing to myself.  

Monday, I have a SWOT meeting and three hours of class and hopefully a meeting with the Learning Tech Specialist in between.  So Monday night then.  Yeah.  Monday night.

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