It’s been a long week. I was already feeling drained from the mentally exhausting work week as I sat down to review our weekend calendar to see what HAD to be done. Drats…it’s a long list: extra legal work for a client; preparation of papers to start working on taxes; a good friend’s birthday party Saturday night; the house needs tending to; the clothes need washing; the vehicles need a bath; family from out of state coming into town; and family in town wanting to get together. I’m sure I’m forgetting something too. Sigh, I think I’m even more tired now just thinking about it all. Nevertheless, the mental checklist has been made. I open the fridge to see what I could quickly whip up for dinner and realize that everything is still frozen and unless I want to most odd combinations of flavors there will be no dinner unless I go grocery shopping. Now I’m regretting not going last night after dinner but I just couldn’t muster up the energy.
Text to my husband now reads:
Dear Husband, We need to go have a drink…or two…and THEN go grocery shopping. Love, your mentally fried Wifey ❤
It’s friggen Friday night! I know I can’t be the only one who has experienced the feeling of relief from the work week being over but the dread of the weekend…and wondering why. In my younger years it was GO. GO. GO. ALL. THE. TIME. Handling the work week like a champ, getting in a work out and still finding time and energy to rock it with my girls, or fella, until wee hours of the morning. Get up early to run errands, do chores, go hiking and go out Saturday and Sunday. Rinse and repeat each week. Now, I’m lucky if I have enough energy come Friday to make dinner, put on my pjs and actually make it through an entire movie on my sofa without nodding off and my weekends no longer attacked with the ambition of the younger me.
So, what happened? Is it age? Is it the work related stress? Is this the calm before the mid-life crisis? I keep having this desire to DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT..though I have no idea what I would do “different” so to speak. Who else out there feels me tonight?
Share with me your thoughts…
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