mind and body (6-15)
I need a vacation. I think I need a vacation for my mind and one for my body. Could they occur at the same time? Well, yes they could but that would require taking time off from the 2 major things I'm doing right now which is work and sports.
My mind could use a break from work. Things are so slow right now that for the 1st time in 3 years on this job, I begin to slack off a little bit. It's not something I'm entirely proud of but it's something that is entirely easy to get used to doing. Over the time I've been here, I figured out so many shortcuts. What I mean by that is I've figured out more efficient ways to do things that would take far longer for other people. In some ways, I've turned 3 hours of work on a task into 1 hour. You know, things like that. That's well and good and impressive when things are busy because I get tons of work done and I love to be swamped. But when things are like this, I find myself looking at the clock a little more often and you know how that goes... the more you look at it, the slower the day goes. So I have 2 weeks of paid time off which I think I may be using soon to get away from this and recharge my mind a bit.
My body on the other hand is in worse condition. First I have 3 nice sized bruises on various body parts. I have an ankle that won't completely heal because I never go more than 3 days without playing another sport. It's at 90 ut it's been stuck there for weeks. It doesn't bother me running straight ahead, but I don't have the ability to make sharp turns. Then there is my twichy groin which isn't so bad, but having discomfort so close to my boys is a little scary. But the coup de grace is my swollen quad on my right leg. What's funny is that it is really stiff and I have a hard time walking around or up stairs, but during yesterday's soccer match once the game started, I forgot about it and my leg was able to do whatever was necessary despite my thigh being bloated looking. Isn't that weird? Oh yeah, and I tore the skin off my right knee sliding twice in the softball game last Sunday, tore it again sliding in Tuesday's game and tore it yet again last night sliding in the soccer match. So there's parts of my skin in Amherst, Williamsville and Buffalo. If you see any of it, please pick it up and return to me.
As of now I have until Sunday to rest myself, which will include a lot of loafing, muscle rubs, muscle cream and heat treatment on my quad. On Sunday, well whether I'm 100r not, I'll be ready to go. I've got a softball game in the morning and hopefully a grueling soccer practice in mid 80's temperatures in the afternoon. I just have to make it to 2 months from now when all the seasons come to an end. Then undoubtedly I'll probably sign up for more stuff.
But getting back to the mind part, I feel I've been so busy lately just trying to keep up with life that I haven't been doing much evaluating or over-analyzing. I don't know if this is a good thing. I feel like being really busy can consume you. Time will fly right by and you feel sustained and even tired. But on the other hand, when I have a few days to pull a Ferris Bueller and stop to take a look around at life, I feel sustained in other ways. Changes in routines or enhancements in one's life cannot be made unless you have the time to analyze what you have and what you want. I know it's confusing. Or maybe I'm confusing. It's okay, you can say it.
The conclusion is I need a vacation. But I can only take one from work. Will that be enough to soothe and recharge my body and mind? I don't think it would be, but somehow I will persevere... I always do.
answers from last blog:
For those of you fun enough to try to participate, here are the answers to the 10 songs from my previous blog:
"Learn to love me and assemble the ways
Now, today, tomorrow, and always. My only weakness is a listed crime
But last night the plans of a future war was all I saw on Channel Four" Smiths- Shoplifters of the World Unite
"If given the chance to lose her again, sleep tight, never you mind. Lonely hearts are breaking tonight" The New Amsterdams (side project of the Get Up Kids) - Lonely Hearts
"She will not get bothered at all. She's just watching the water at fall. So you should give them just what they need, water and poetry." Cardigans- Celia Inside
"Sometimes a man gets carried away, when he feels like he should be having his fun and much too blind to see the damage he's done.
Sometimes a man must awake to find that really, he has no one. So I'll wait for you and I'll burn. Will I ever see your sweet return? Will I ever learn. Oh lover, you should've come over, cause it's not too late." Jeff Buckley- Lover You Should Have Come Over
"If I was King for just one day, I would give it all away. I would give it all away to be with you." Thompson Twins - King For a Day
"I want a mystery that could'nt be solved. I want a puzzle with pieces missing. I want a story that couldn't be told... only the fishing part of fishing." Kings of Convenience - Signing Softly to Me
"You look like a perfect fit. For a girl in need of a tourniquet. But can you save me, come on and save me. If you could save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they could never love anyone " Aimee Mann - Save Me
"I was only dreaming. I was just trying to catch your eye. I was only wishing you would notice me but instead you said goodbye" Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark - Dreaming
"Stumble past the record store, end up at the movies, try to think of something else, nothing's coming to me. You do this to me. You do this and I oblige it... and I fight it." Whiskeytown - Empty Baseball Park
"all of a sudden the girl of my dreams. She never asks, she always screams. Do you see her face in a puddle at my feet? As I bend down to kiss the street and I'll come runnin' to her." Luna - Bewitched
I need a vacation. I think I need a vacation for my mind and one for my body. Could they occur at the same time? Well, yes they could but that would require taking time off from the 2 major things I'm doing right now which is work and sports.
My mind could use a break from work. Things are so slow right now that for the 1st time in 3 years on this job, I begin to slack off a little bit. It's not something I'm entirely proud of but it's something that is entirely easy to get used to doing. Over the time I've been here, I figured out so many shortcuts. What I mean by that is I've figured out more efficient ways to do things that would take far longer for other people. In some ways, I've turned 3 hours of work on a task into 1 hour. You know, things like that. That's well and good and impressive when things are busy because I get tons of work done and I love to be swamped. But when things are like this, I find myself looking at the clock a little more often and you know how that goes... the more you look at it, the slower the day goes. So I have 2 weeks of paid time off which I think I may be using soon to get away from this and recharge my mind a bit.
My body on the other hand is in worse condition. First I have 3 nice sized bruises on various body parts. I have an ankle that won't completely heal because I never go more than 3 days without playing another sport. It's at 90 ut it's been stuck there for weeks. It doesn't bother me running straight ahead, but I don't have the ability to make sharp turns. Then there is my twichy groin which isn't so bad, but having discomfort so close to my boys is a little scary. But the coup de grace is my swollen quad on my right leg. What's funny is that it is really stiff and I have a hard time walking around or up stairs, but during yesterday's soccer match once the game started, I forgot about it and my leg was able to do whatever was necessary despite my thigh being bloated looking. Isn't that weird? Oh yeah, and I tore the skin off my right knee sliding twice in the softball game last Sunday, tore it again sliding in Tuesday's game and tore it yet again last night sliding in the soccer match. So there's parts of my skin in Amherst, Williamsville and Buffalo. If you see any of it, please pick it up and return to me.
As of now I have until Sunday to rest myself, which will include a lot of loafing, muscle rubs, muscle cream and heat treatment on my quad. On Sunday, well whether I'm 100r not, I'll be ready to go. I've got a softball game in the morning and hopefully a grueling soccer practice in mid 80's temperatures in the afternoon. I just have to make it to 2 months from now when all the seasons come to an end. Then undoubtedly I'll probably sign up for more stuff.
But getting back to the mind part, I feel I've been so busy lately just trying to keep up with life that I haven't been doing much evaluating or over-analyzing. I don't know if this is a good thing. I feel like being really busy can consume you. Time will fly right by and you feel sustained and even tired. But on the other hand, when I have a few days to pull a Ferris Bueller and stop to take a look around at life, I feel sustained in other ways. Changes in routines or enhancements in one's life cannot be made unless you have the time to analyze what you have and what you want. I know it's confusing. Or maybe I'm confusing. It's okay, you can say it.
The conclusion is I need a vacation. But I can only take one from work. Will that be enough to soothe and recharge my body and mind? I don't think it would be, but somehow I will persevere... I always do.
answers from last blog:
For those of you fun enough to try to participate, here are the answers to the 10 songs from my previous blog:
"Learn to love me and assemble the ways
Now, today, tomorrow, and always. My only weakness is a listed crime
But last night the plans of a future war was all I saw on Channel Four" Smiths- Shoplifters of the World Unite
"If given the chance to lose her again, sleep tight, never you mind. Lonely hearts are breaking tonight" The New Amsterdams (side project of the Get Up Kids) - Lonely Hearts
"She will not get bothered at all. She's just watching the water at fall. So you should give them just what they need, water and poetry." Cardigans- Celia Inside
"Sometimes a man gets carried away, when he feels like he should be having his fun and much too blind to see the damage he's done.
Sometimes a man must awake to find that really, he has no one. So I'll wait for you and I'll burn. Will I ever see your sweet return? Will I ever learn. Oh lover, you should've come over, cause it's not too late." Jeff Buckley- Lover You Should Have Come Over
"If I was King for just one day, I would give it all away. I would give it all away to be with you." Thompson Twins - King For a Day
"I want a mystery that could'nt be solved. I want a puzzle with pieces missing. I want a story that couldn't be told... only the fishing part of fishing." Kings of Convenience - Signing Softly to Me
"You look like a perfect fit. For a girl in need of a tourniquet. But can you save me, come on and save me. If you could save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they could never love anyone " Aimee Mann - Save Me
"I was only dreaming. I was just trying to catch your eye. I was only wishing you would notice me but instead you said goodbye" Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark - Dreaming
"Stumble past the record store, end up at the movies, try to think of something else, nothing's coming to me. You do this to me. You do this and I oblige it... and I fight it." Whiskeytown - Empty Baseball Park
"all of a sudden the girl of my dreams. She never asks, she always screams. Do you see her face in a puddle at my feet? As I bend down to kiss the street and I'll come runnin' to her." Luna - Bewitched
