No More Busy

Well, my jammed packed day is suddenly empty.

Ring shopping is postponed until next week because of my son's work schedule.  I was relieved to have some time open up this afternoon.  It's going to rain all day and that screws up traffic so the drive would've been miserable too.

Then, the PHB person I was meeting to have a walk cancelled because of the weather too.  Here's my issue.  The original plan was walk (weather permitting) or coffee.  Guess no coffee option??  Also, she texted me asking if there was another day and I texted back with an option.  Crickets.  Not one text back.  All afternoon, evening and nothing this morning.  Are we doing this again??  I'm ready to throw in the towel.

Dropping Aspen off at the boarders is also postponed since they open early tomorrow, we can save her one night of boarding.

My day is now rescue phone calls and packing.  We have an early day tomorrow, so early to bed.  Good news is I got all my junk finished yesterday.  Yea ME!!

Our "romantic" (we're never really romantic LOL) anniversary weekend  is a rain-filled mess.  We are now meeting a colleague of my husband and his wife for lunch one day (because we are going to be bored).  I'm packing my laptop and Italy travel books and we are planning our trip for the spring.  Flying to Florida to plan another trip - crazy.  BTW, I finally remembered (looked up) where we are going -- Singer Island.  Lots of walking, eating, reading and trip planning.

On the self-help front ... reading Gretchen Rubin's Better than Before.  I tabled Seat of the Soul re-read because I found out Gretchen writes about giving up sugar -- timely.  It's a good book on habits.  I like her observations and her point that just because someone else likes something doesn't mean you need to like it too.  Being Gretchen (substitute your name)!!  She doesn't fight her NATURE.  She doesn't waste energy on forming habits that don't need to form for her.  Her example is lots of people do well monitoring and charting their expenses.  She doesn't overspend and doesn't have an issue with finances so to spend energy logging, monitoring her spending is a waste of time for HER.  That kind of thing.  My favorite self-help peeps all subscribe to INDIVIDUALITY.  Direct energy to areas that YOU need work - not wasting on habits YOU don't need to implement (even if it's the THING everyone is doing).

Reading this book has me evaluating some things.  Once again, I have a mostly stellar morning routine, fair mid-day routine and a lousy evening routine.  When we get back from our trip, my focus is going to be those 3 hours that trip me up in the late afternoon/evening.  I'm going to think about a plan this weekend.  How can I fix this one area?  Spending some quality habit building energy on these 3 hours will give me HUGE results.  I keep putting energy into constant improvement of something that's already good while barely touching the problem time of day.  Duh, let's change that up!  I'm inspired - thanks Gretchen.

P.S. I finished Girl with the Seven Names.  It was very interesting - especially since it's about very recent times.  Interesting about the events, but also interesting about how her family felt about everything.  Worth the read.

Until Tuesday ... later gators.