Everytime a guest leaves, I go through a little bit of a Post-Visitor Depression. Loneliness sets in because, in essence, I had a friend to do things with every day and suddenly I no longer do. I return to real life where I have a lot of alone time, where I work a lot (oh hi last week!) and spend the majority of my free time sitting in my apartment.
Basically, I need hobbies.
Then a friend of mine suggests joining her and a few other of my friends in Atlanta over labor day weekend, coinciding with the lovely five days I have off. Now wouldn’t that be perfect? A little get away to a city I haven’t seen since I moved away fourteen years ago with three girls I adore. Except that costs money. Money I do not have. While the tickets are cheap, I still can’t afford them.
I miss being spontaneous. Part of me thinks it’d be worth it to just go but the practical part of me knows it’s not possible. As much as it pains me to admit that. So it’s time to start planning that camping trip to the mountains Sept 4-6th..ish. Who’s with me?
In other news, my track record with vlogging every day failed last yesterday. I was in a fabulously horrendous mood when I got home and while I had started a vlog that morning, I just couldn’t bring myself to finish it because it would involve…well…me being a whole lot of bitch on camera. Luckily some Twisted Pine Raspberry Wheat beer, a ton of dips and girl talk for #PotluckSunday helped cure my bad mood.
Unfortunately it still left me dead tired so a vlog just didn’t happen and I couldn’t justify a video of the Eiffel Tower’s light show in replacement for a vlog that’s supposed to be about “A Day in the Life.” Just didn’t seem to fit whereas my video montage of Morocco was justifiable because I was technically outside in all of them.
Today I am getting some much needed exercise while walking a friend’s two dogs, doing a few vlogs and catching up on my me time, something that has been sorely missing from my life right now. It is so very very welcome right now. Yesterday, as I was going through my little meltdown, I almost just jumped in my car and headed up into the mountains to sit by myself in the woods. Maybe it would have done me a lot of good. Maybe I would have hit someone with my car and yelled profanities out the window at them. Both are totally plausible outcomes but only one of them would have helped me feel better.
OK that’s a lie. Both of them probably would have made me feel awesome but one of them would have resulted in me behind bars. Orange is not a good color on me.
Have a very happy monday everyone!
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I hear ya – I’m already anticipating this conscious need to prioritize balance now that I’m back in a place where I *could* be working all the time – perhaps some scheduled Netflix dates are in order to ensure that sometimes we just SIT and allow input to balance all of the output our lives require
I always feel down when visitors leave. Especially my sisters. I miss them!
Balance is a hard thing. Glad you are taking some you time. You deserve it.
Loved the vlog episodes. A ‘great outdoors’ video would be groovy.
Yes, hobby! And sometimes it’s not fun, but you have to listen to the practical side from time to time. One thing I use to love doing is visiting galleries. I found a couple that I really liked and would just go and hang out at them once a week or two. It’s better to find little galleries that host rotating shows often. Otherwise, you end up seeing the same stuff for a couple of weeks. Not bad if it’s a good show, but really awful when it’s the guy who thinks it’s really witty to have old plastic doll heads sticking out of his canvas.
Me time is such an important aspect to having balance and overall happiness. I am sorely lacking in that department as well lately. I’m pretty much dedicating the month of september to me time. I often go to the hills and just sit a while taking in the nature and life around me.