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Frustrated
Aug. 25th, 2004 10:55 amWe are leaving tomorrow early early to go "on vacation" to Wisconsin for about 10 days, to see our folks and visit with friends, and get away from the office for a bit. I am looking forward to it, since I haven't seen my family since Christmas and I REALLY need to get away from the guest house for a time!
The hard part is, getting away. Do I know I'm leaving tomorrow? Yes. Am I the least bit ready to go? No.
I almost would rather not go, so that I wouldn't have to pack in the short expanse of time between the end of the work day today and the time we leave on the trip. Hope there will be time to sleep in there somewhere. The trip is some 18 hours long, so we have to leave early; but the amount of stuff I have to do before we are ready is frightening -- packing my own bag is the least of it.
The main problem is there are guests in the house now, and more coming while we are gone, and I have to prepare for that as well as get my own stuff done. We also are leaving projects undone that will hang over me and have to be faced when we get back. And no matter how much my men do their part in getting ready, there is always something extra that gets put on my plate that I wasn't expecting.
I can't go home early today to get ready to go, because I can' leave work at the office until I finish the writing project that is due today -- something that must be done, no ifs ands or buts, and can't be given to someone else.
It's times like this that I almost regret spending so much time on my Boromir stories -- almost, but not quite. My LOTR writing keeps me sane when the RW "is too much with me" as my mom would say. Still, if I hadn't been so keen to post Chapter 18 yesterday, I might actually have some things on my "to do" list checked off... But it was a great chapter, and I feel very, very good that it is written and posted.
Anyway, I'm feeling a bit frustrated with it all, but it will pass. We will leave tomorrow when we leave -- on time, or no -- and I will be packed and guests will be arranged for, and I will have lived through it.
Though not necessarily without losing my temper once or twice. ;-)
The hard part is, getting away. Do I know I'm leaving tomorrow? Yes. Am I the least bit ready to go? No.
I almost would rather not go, so that I wouldn't have to pack in the short expanse of time between the end of the work day today and the time we leave on the trip. Hope there will be time to sleep in there somewhere. The trip is some 18 hours long, so we have to leave early; but the amount of stuff I have to do before we are ready is frightening -- packing my own bag is the least of it.
The main problem is there are guests in the house now, and more coming while we are gone, and I have to prepare for that as well as get my own stuff done. We also are leaving projects undone that will hang over me and have to be faced when we get back. And no matter how much my men do their part in getting ready, there is always something extra that gets put on my plate that I wasn't expecting.
I can't go home early today to get ready to go, because I can' leave work at the office until I finish the writing project that is due today -- something that must be done, no ifs ands or buts, and can't be given to someone else.
It's times like this that I almost regret spending so much time on my Boromir stories -- almost, but not quite. My LOTR writing keeps me sane when the RW "is too much with me" as my mom would say. Still, if I hadn't been so keen to post Chapter 18 yesterday, I might actually have some things on my "to do" list checked off... But it was a great chapter, and I feel very, very good that it is written and posted.
Anyway, I'm feeling a bit frustrated with it all, but it will pass. We will leave tomorrow when we leave -- on time, or no -- and I will be packed and guests will be arranged for, and I will have lived through it.
Though not necessarily without losing my temper once or twice. ;-)
