Things I want to make time for:
- Catch up on six months of Runner’s World issues
- De-clutter the house. It’s an endless cycle, I know, but I want to be ahead of the clutter for once. Just for a while.
- Exercise. Like real exercise. I haven’t been getting out of bed early enough to do more than a couple of miles (occasionally three) before work, and I need to have time for four or five. Or six, once I work my way back to handling that long of a run. And what about other stuff, like lunges, squats, push-ups, crunches? When am I supposed to fit those in? Maybe I can try to make room for those at night. Before dinner, before bed. I’d like to do them right after the run, but I don’t think that’s realistic. Not when I need to be out the door by 8:30. The days are already getting shorter, sunrise is later, and just how early do I think I’m going to get up?
- Find an affordable place to live. With jobs. Or find jobs that’ll let us work from anywhere. Yes, I know our current jobs could technically be done from home, but the hard part is finding the employer who will let us do that. So maybe that’s the next thing on the list.
- Find jobs/employers who will allow, even encourage, us to work from home. This list is changing directions a little. It’s not like we’re looking for new jobs. ‘Cause we’re not. ‘Cause I certainly wouldn’t be announcing that here. That would be dumb. Let me rephrase. Find a way to convince our current employers that we’re much more effective working from home. There. For real, despite my recent schedule, I like my job. Now that I’ve (hopefully) convinced my current employer that I’m not looking for a way out, let’s move on.
- Play with the dogs! This should move up the list. I feel like I’m neglecting them a bit. They get lots of love, and I take them on my morning jog every other day or so, but I don’t run them around the yard or really play with them outside as much as I should.
- See friends. Again, this should move higher up the list. Almost all of our friends live too far away. Seeing them always means making plans, which sometimes is just too exhausting to think about. We have so little free time during the week and we spend all weekend doing chores and running errands, so the free time we have on the weekends tends to be spent enjoying the quiet and the knowledge that we don’t have to run around for an hour or two. We are trying to figure out a better way to live. This is nuts. And that leads me back to what I was saying a couple of months ago. Neither of us wants to live like this. We don’t want the conventional jobs, with conventional work hours and conventional commutes and conventional bosses. But how do we get out?
momma betty
Make a plan and just do it. Now. Not later.
Jessica
I am so with you. It’s getting worse now that Chuck and I don’t work at the same place anymore … particularly since he now works in another state.