Babe's asleep, must shovel!

[bklyndirt]

Will run outside to deal with the snow in a moment, but I just wanted to take a moment to breathe, contemplate, and write.  I have made a vow to myself that from now on, Audrey's sleep time will, very strictly, be my work time.  I refuse to do housework while she's asleep, even though it's necessary and I feel like I'm still digging myself out of

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[mostly_irish]

I never want to do house work when the baby's asleep either. I usually use those two and a half hours in the middle of the day for Me Time: I take a shower, then make myself some lunch. Maybe read a little. By the time I've leisurely done all that, he wakes up refreshed. And so am I. If I ran around trying to clean like crazy, he'd wake up rearing to go and I'd be the one who needed a nap. ;)

[bklyndirt]

This is a big deal for me. The last few years have been so much about everyone else's needs, that me taking time for myself feels like a pair of boots I have to break in. I know it will be great and I'll love them once I'm used to them, but for now they make me antsy.

I have to remind myself not to feel guilty about all the things I'm NOT doing.

[thesaturdaygirl]

What would you get your PhD in and what would the ideal end result be?

[bklyndirt]

I have my Masters in Landscape Architecture. While I practiced LArch for a while I really missed the pure ideas that were part of my studies. So much of the work of being a Landscape Architect is producing technical drawings and managing projects, that ideas and form get lost

[thesaturdaygirl]

I have no doubt you'd be a good academic and wasn't implying otherwise. I was genuinely curious as to if you were hoping to go into an academic career or if you could do other things with a PhD in your field (and I didn't know what the field was). Frankly, if you wrote in academic prose I wouldn't be reading your journal because that kind of presumption would be infuriating