Temporary
☆ April 1, 2016
At the end of a big project, I am a mess, my house is a mess, I am sleep deprived, my animals are slightly neglected. And I have to remind myself it’s temporary. Soon the project will be done, and I will sleep and I will vacuum and I will cuddle all the animals, great and small, with nothing else on my mind.
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April 1st, 2016 @ 12:04 pm
You can do it!
April 1st, 2016 @ 12:07 pm
Oh, Shreve! I hope you don’t think you’re alone in this! I think it goes just as you describe for most of us! I’m in the middle of such a period as we speak, and just today have enough of a break to get some laundry done!
April 1st, 2016 @ 12:09 pm
one foot in front of the other and soon this too shall pass.
sending love and peace, sunshine and luck, hugs and lollipops.
xo
April 1st, 2016 @ 12:11 pm
Take care of yourself, too. The other things can and will wait forYOU.
April 1st, 2016 @ 12:11 pm
The beautiful photo reminds of the word “perspective”–sounds like you have it!
April 1st, 2016 @ 12:42 pm
Got enough milk for a soothing bath? Nighty night. Take a few days of solitude to bounce back, not just one or two.
April 1st, 2016 @ 12:43 pm
No worries! All that stuff waits for you.
April 1st, 2016 @ 12:44 pm
YES! I remind myself of this daily lately, though I think maybe just remembering that all is really temporary, I might yearn for otherwise less.
April 1st, 2016 @ 1:06 pm
A concept so difficult for me to truly accept even though I know it to be so as well. It so easily leads to even more stress. Namaste.
April 1st, 2016 @ 2:12 pm
We all need down time to replenish our reserves. I actually just read an email from Andrew Sullivan who discontinued his The Dish blog about a year ago. I had been a subscriber to that blog and he was updating about taking a year off to wind down from the ceaseless daily blogging he had been doing. His post about realizing how taxing that had been even while it was very rewarding to communicate with so many dedicated readers reminded me of your post here a few weeks ago about your own struggles with becoming too consumed with writing for an audience on a more daily basis. He is going back to long form writing and occasional articles for The New Yorker as he decided the blog form was just too much of an addicting and wearing form of writing. I have read very few blogs that I stuck with except for yours, his and Ta Nahisi Coates, and even then I have sometimes found it became a sort of ‘chore’ to read every day. We each have to find our own limit in everything we do.
April 1st, 2016 @ 2:13 pm
At least you are at the end of your project. I bought a house in September and started packing thinking it wouldn’t be long before the contractor built an extra room and did a few other little jobs. I didn’t take into consideration about getting permits, then the county said that it was a remodel on an old house and everything would have to be brought up to code–new wireing, new plumbing and new wider windows. then there was rain, lots of it. I hope to move in in about a month. Meanwhile, like you I really need to vaccuum and dust but don’t feel like it.
April 1st, 2016 @ 2:41 pm
I agree with Marg…this requires a milk bath! Take care and be proud that you completed a project.
April 1st, 2016 @ 4:10 pm
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April 1st, 2016 @ 9:11 pm
Totally and utterly get it. Hang in there. Revel in the delicious sense of accomplishment… and a mill bath, of course. Sweet dreams. xo
April 2nd, 2016 @ 8:52 am
Isn’t it great to completely LOSE yourself in something? Until you look around. ;)