Workouts, dreams, and postcards

I feel complexly out of it this morning.

Yesterday I pushed myself really hard in my workout. I played tennis with a friend in the morning, and then headed to the gym in the afternoon. I split a 2.5-mile run around a Core Building class. It was a hard workout, and I was tired and achy everywhere yesterday evening. This morning, I feel like I got hit by a bus. Every muscle on my body aches (except for maybe my fingers), but really everything else hurts.

Last night I had weird dreams – kind of inception based, but then also about college, video games, hostage situations, and the end of the world. To make it more interesting I heard a song by India Arie yesterday, and so the song, along with her name were interlaced throughout my entire dream, and the song was playing in my head when I woke up this morning.

To make this morning even more complex, today is my one day off of work this week – which means intense cleaning and photo business work. And Jeff decided to call in. He came home for a half day yesterday, and then this morning decided he wasn’t feeling well enough to go back to work yet. So rather than getting up at 7 and getting moving, I slept in with my hubby. Until 9:30. Ugh.

And even 9:30 was a hard wake up. You know how you feel after you take a long nap in the middle of the day? A nap that should have lasted 30 minutes but ended up being 3 hours? Where you feel even more drowsy and tired than you did before you went to sleep and your body is completely sluggish? That’s what happened at 9:30 this morning.

But now I’m up and went straight to it. (yes I’m blogging, but I’m multitasking so its okay!) I’m printing postcards for a wedding this Saturday, hoping my dandy little printer doesn’t run out of ink before I print enough of these cards! (It has been saying Ink is low for the last couple days, but I’ve printed over ten full page, double sided color prints and it isn’t empty yet!). I can’t wait to share these postcards with you and all the guests at Saturday’s wedding! Now off to work around the house!

Summer, but just as busy as ever.

For the last few months of school I was continually telling myself things would slow down after one more week, or two. Then I finally realized school was not going to slow down. So I started telling myself things would slow down once I graduated. And that was what I held onto. I put off laundry, dishes, and vacuuming, holding onto the idea that once school was over I'd have time to catch up on chores, catch up on photo editing, clean my office, read, etc.

However, graduation has come and gone, and I've now recognized my latest hope isn't true. Life doesn't slow down. Period. There are always responsibilities, always surprizes and there simply aren't enough hours in every day. I expected to at least have a little bit more time, but thus far it feels like I'm just as busy as when school was in full swing. I'm working 3-4 days a week at my office job, which gives me a day or two each week. I planned on using that day to catch up on chores, editing, etc.

Thursday I spent ALL day doing laundry. I'd tried to catch up on laundry a couple times during school, but they were never sucessful attempts - instead they ended in even more dirty laundry [after being left on the couch, end of the bed or even the floor, begining stepped on, mixed with other dirty laundry, etc]. So for the last few months almost every article of clothing Jeff and I own has been dirty. When we needed clean clothes we would wash just the necessities - jeans, shirts, and undies. So Thursday I attacked laundry. I filled our living room with carefully color sorted piles and started a process of load after load into the washer and dryer, folding previous loads in between. And I managed to make it through most of our laundry. I also refolded everything in our dresser and shelf in the closet.

I thought I'd make it through laundry, and dishes, and some pictures... but I only made it through laundry. Oh well. Then Jeff and I chaperoned at single's conference this weekend - which was amazing, but more of that on another blog. ;]

Anyway I'm starting to get back into the swing of things - work, chores, picture editing, etc - with that means dealing with the fact that life flies by, no day has enough hours in it to accomplish everything on my list, and I have to deal with it, smile, and keep going.