Me Time?

There is no better way to describe this week.  I am exhausted.  I don’t think I had any idea how hard and how much work this week would be.  I definitely didn’t think about it or plan for it.  Hosting Thanksgiving has drained me and I haven’t been able to rest or catch back up.  I have much more respect for my mother or any woman when it comes to the Holidays now.  Entertaining this many people means that you get little, if any time, to focus on yourself.

Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t change any of this and I am loving spending time with my family, but I am ready for a little me time.  I want to clean my house, clean out my inbox, catch up on my TIVO, go to the gym, go grocery shopping, etc.  But I don’t think any of that is happening today.  My brother flew home yesterday but due to the whole Sunday-after-Thanksgiving-traffic situation, my mother is going to head home tomorrow morning, which I completely support.  I think we are going to go out to some of the vineyards in Loudoun County today, which will be fabulous, but will mean that laundry pile is just going to have to ignore me for another day.

And then there is the pressure of the job.  Half of me wants to dedicate tomorrow to getting my life back in order but the other half of me is saying I have to focus on work all day, 9-5.  No idea which half will win.  I may let myself work around the house for an hour or two in the middle of the day.

Who else is sick of food?  Just thinking about food right now makes me feel full.  I am ready to get back on my normal eating schedule, but again, I think I’m going to have to wait until tomorrow for that one.  In all honesty, my body doesn’t even want its normal bowl of oats this morning.  It doesn’t even know what it wants or when it wants it.  I do think I am going to detox on the alcohol (after today’s wine tasting!) until my birthday.  Drinking, even a glass or two, every day for the last week has just caught up with me.  I’m ready to be without alcohol.

I feel like this whole post has been a Thanksgiving-based sob fest.  I don’t in any way want to come across like that.  I had an amazing Thanksgiving, I am just exhausted and really ready to get back on my schedule.  Tomorrow will be here soon enough.  I have thoroughly enjoyed spending time with my family and wouldn’t give up a moment with any of them.  I think more than anything I have much more respect for the hostess at any major holiday event.

But in the meantime, I am going to go enjoy spending some wonderful time outside, in the sunshine, in the gorgeous Loudoun Valley with my Mom today.  Wine tasting, stunning Fall landscape, and sunshine?  I don’t think things can get much better than that!

To Smile.