A little snowball

I think our lack of a buffer day after our Florida trip kind of snowballed and caught up with me a bit this weekend.

As I mentioned, we got home last Sunday night and then dove right back into everything on Monday. While yes, I technically unpacked immediately, there were still things lingering around all week that ended up making me feel a bit uneasy.

For example, the mail. We also had random extra bags with sunscreen, ziplocs, my backpack with books, etc. that did NOT get unpacked instantly. Like I mentioned, we did not have groceries. There were some packages sitting around. ETC.

For someone coming off a week of lounging around, I felt remarkably tired and lazy in the evenings last week, too. Every day in the morning I’d declare, Tonight I’m going to get groceries! And then, I didn’t. ha.

I did do an excellent job of getting back into the gym right away. Longtime readers may know that sometimes I end up dragging my feet for way too long on this. So, +1 me.

The week itself wasn’t bad, just felt rough around the edges and like I said, I felt tired.

We went out for dinner on Monday and ignored reality.

On Tuesday Ivan made a quick bistec a la mexicana dish (he swung by the Mexican grocery store on his way home for steak and tomatoes/onion/jalapenos and pinto beans), while I ran to pay the dog boarding place. I did pull a bunch of weeds in the front that night, too, so I guess I did something productive. (I also went to the gym at 6 a.m. that day!)

Wednesday I made frozen salmon and baked potatoes (had from before vacation and still seemed okay) and frozen veggies. I felt extra tired this night.. but I did a cardio workout immediately after work at home, plus I went to the gym in the morning for strength. Ivan and I crashed early and watched multiple episodes of Anne with an E in bed (earlier than we’d normally do this!). The exciting part of Wednesday was getting Ethan’s car back!

On Thursday I did a Emkfit pilates video in the morning and had a busy work day. I had to run Asher around, it was Ethan’s 1st day of school (so he couldn’t help drive Asher!) and I was asked to sub for a friend’s sand volleyball team at 7:40 pm. I made quesadillas for dinner before my game. It was very fun!!! It was a gorgeous summer night and a good workout, too. OOF playing in sand…. (I agreed to be a regular on the indoor volleyball team this fall every Wednesday night!)

Friday I did yoga in the morning, sort of (a very short Yoga with Adrienne that I’m not sure even “counts”, but, I will), worked all day, then quickly squeezed in my back/biceps strength at the gym after work before going out for dinner, as usual. Friday was nice, though I barely saw the boys. 😦 (Asher was working, E at school, then had his own plans so he didn’t want to go out.)

Once the weekend arrived, though, I suddenly woke up on Saturday and felt extremely overwhelmed. I felt like I just had a million things to do, the weeds this year are SO BAD and our yard was driving me insane, the house felt… “messy”, my bedroom felt extra messy (laundry from our trip was done, but I needed to put away and I had random things sitting around…), we BADLY needed groceries by this point, my email was in a serious state of neglect (and I knew there were random school related things in there…) and the damn storage room stuff, oddly, was still all laying out, not done. lol. (Wouldn’t it have been something to come home and find that an organizing fairy had completed it?!)

In hindsight, I mean, it’s all fairly obvious- we were away for 2 full weekends. Of course things would “pile up”! I’m not sure why I’d expect otherwise. I just felt cranky and annoyed and I think I said to Ivan at one point, “Why does this all feel so hard?!”

But then I felt immediately silly, because… #firstworldproblems! Yes, my life is SO hard dealing with my weeds and cleaning my bedroom. 🙄

Anyway, I settled down. I made a list, we got a bunch of things taken care of, we both did yard work, I did get a big grocery haul and my email inbox is back in control. I even cleaned my room last night while watching Sister Act on ABC. Haha. (That is such a good one! Definitely a fun nostalgic one if you’ve never watched it with your tweens+).

This was not one of those “totally fun weekends” really (though we did actually go to a birthday party for one of Ivan’s soccer teammates Saturday night, which I was partially cranky about, tbh, but I was glad we went because Ivan said the guy was all excited to host this party and then there weren’t even that many people there… so I was glad that we hadn’t bailed!), but I do feel (mostly) better.

(I feel like my baseline state is being mildly overwhelmed with my life and to do list 🤪so, I guess we can say, I’m back to baseline. lol.)

Charlie is not sure what all the fuss is about. Life is easy, don’t you know? 😉

(Actually, we did do some fun things, too. I mentioned the party, I wrote my July recap while watching the Packers pre-season game during a cozy thunderstorm, we watched a couple episodes of Anne with an E, I went for multiple walks (one long one with Ivan, one with Ethan), AND I went to the gym both days!)

Daily Gratitude:

I am grateful that I just wrapped up one of the big quarterly meetings I have to present at which makes me semi-anxious… I think that was weighing on me a little, too, knowing that was coming up on Monday…. ✅