Winter Holiday
I'm off work from the day job this week and it's a welcome vacation. The last six months, hell, the last eighteen months, have been pretty intense.
I'm not dwelling on anything, mind you, only saying that it's been a long haul and even though there was a LOT that happened in just the last six months. Downtime is always good but I don't always take advantage of it. I tend to keep working while I'm 'off' work. It's an annoying habit.
But this holiday, I've taken steps back from everything. At least for a couple of days.
There is an enormous amount of things that have to be done in the coming months. It's the Season of Making Room and that involves moving out comics and books I will never read again; there's the mountain of paper that I once thought would be important later on that needs to be weeded out; junk that I saved with the idea of creating collages has to be gotten rid of.
Plus I have to WRITE.
So there's no guilt in taking a couple of days to just sort of breathe and reset. What's important right now is not being TOO concerned with the day job. That's my real vacation this week. Of course I'm checking email every so often and I even went in to inspect a piece of equipment that failed over Christmas weekend, but I'm not really THINKING about that work. When I go back next week I'll be more focused. I think.
This is turning into a ramble and I've got a solution to a pesky problem regarding the climax of a story that's in progress so I'm heading off to do that. However, I don't want to leave you with the impression that in all of this I'm forgetting my family. I'm not. While there are all these things that I have to do, it's good to remember and appreciate that I have all these options. I'm grateful for them, even though sometimes one is favored over another or just overwhelms the others.
I'm working on my six word resolution for the coming year, so I'll stop by again on Saturday or Sunday and fill you in on that. Gotta run now.