I was inspired by catalogrrr and her Walk to Work photo essay, so yesterday I did one of my own for my walk from work to home. Click the photo below for the slideshow.
I love walking to and from work. It gives me 15-20minutes 2x a day to think my thoughts. By myself. Sometimes the walk is therapeutic as it gives me some time to wind down; sometimes the walk is stressful as it allows me mentally stack up the million+1 things that need to get done or the million+1 things that should have been done. Either way, though, I think the walk is good for me.
Of course this morning I thought about a million things. And the question I keep coming back to: why does everything have to seem so complicated? Life is not that hard: eat, work, sleep. It’s all the extra stuff that gets in the way — all the deadlines and timelines. Take today, for example. If you work the day backwards, there is little wiggle room:
7:08pm : be at airport to pick up friend
6:30pm : leave for airport. I plan to bring Maja with me so that Richard can get Madeleine to bed at a reasonable hour; that means in order for Maja to be relatively pleasant we have to eat before we leave.
5:30pm : preferably have dinner ready and start eating.
between 4:00pm and 6:00pm : pick up plants from plant sale. I only had 2 choices for this — tonight and tomorrow. Tomorrow, though, is booked solid with an event that only occurs 1x a year. So, no flexibility there.
2:00pm and 2:15pm — girls have doctor appointments
1:15pm at the latest! — start drive to doctor. This means having them in the car and driving out of the parking lot. So, I have to be AT school at
12:45pm — be at school to pick up the girls. Gather sheets, clothes, bottles, etc. and get everyone/thing into the car.
12:30pm — leave work. In order to avoid being ‘charged’ a 1/2 day sick time I can only take 2 hrs off work… so that means I have to work a 5hr day. To leave by 12:30pm I need to be at work by 7:30am.
7:30am — be AT work. This didn’t happen. See? The day was shot to hell before it even started!
To top off the chaos, I didn’t remember last night about the appointments. So I had no snacks or activities packed for this afternoon — all that had to get done this morning amidst the usual morning chaos. This frustrated me to no end: how could I be so stupid?!? Probably because by the time all was finished last night I was too tired to think any further. Time for an overhaul in the organization department.
Stumble It!
