Champagne and Socks

Craft table at work! Today I mostly cut out more pieces for this project. I pinned a few and sewed maybe two seams. But for the rest of the week I’ll be able to piece and sew to my heart’s content. I love this fabric and am having a lot of fun working with it.

I’m starting to think that I might not be good at the happy medium thing. I’ve been grizzling a lot to C and he keeps pointing out that I tend to focus on the negative – on what I haven’t achieved or what I am not spending time on rather than on what I have done. He has a point.

And I realised today a few things. My asthma is finally starting to come under control but I am now starting to lose my voice. And I hear myself telling people that I am really burnt out and had a really full on year so this kind of thing is to be expected (it’s by business model, as Tansy would say – work really hard, push myself beyond that, finish, then hit wall, collapse and get sick). And this year has been jam packed full. I can hardly believe what I have accomplished this year. And maybe, just maybe, the right thing to do is, for once, to be kind to myself. So yes, whilst I have given up 2.5 hours per day from non-day job activities, I am sleeping 2 hours more!! per night and I am taking lunch. And both are translating to a lower stress load and resulting in me feeling *really* good physically. I’ve hit that positive feedback loop thing where you feel good so you make better choices – like eating fresher food, drinking water, contemplating exercise – to continue to feel better. And I’ve started caring more about dressing for work, wearing accessories and so on, because I feel better about myself. And they say that people who sleep less, weigh more. I’ll keep you posted on that front.

And of course, the theory goes that you do better and more efficient work when you feel better and are less stressed. Being someone who performs well under pressure, I dunno about that one. Of course I still have several more deadlines to reach by the end of the year and have reduced the time available to work on them so maybe the pressure is still on.

But the other thing I’m always complaining about – working so much on TPP that I don’t have time to read or craft. Tonight I spent maybe two hours sewing (minus cooking for dinner and some admin stuff). And then I’m going to read for an hour, maybe, before bed. So that would mean that today I did day job, TPP admin, TPP editing, crafting and reading as well as some housework. That’s actually a better scenario – and one I’ve been trying to work towards for a long time. I am such a whinger!

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