I missed the check in yesterday because I was on the road. I’ve been on a business trip at the Inn on the Biltmore and have had almost no computer time. Anyway, here’s the dirty truth.
I’ve just stopped. I’ve stopped writing, stopped exercising, stopped proofreading, stopped commenting on other people’s blog. Now, before you start worrying about me…I promise this is temporary. I just needed to take a break. I’ve had some really rough days at work where I came home exhausted. Then I left on the business trip Friday morning, knowing that I still had a lot of work to do and that it would be here when I got back. I don’t know when I’ll pick things back up, but I’m shooting for Tuesday (tomorrow). I have a birthday dinner to attend tonight, and I don’t want to be stressed there, so I’m waiting until things get back to normal.
I’ve really missed checking in with everybody. I may try to stop by a few places today and tomorrow and get caught back up with my online friends. Thanks for understanding!
Tomorrow, I’m planning on writing a post about something odd that happened to me at the Biltmore house. It was kind of strange for a skeptic like me!
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Hey sometimes you just gotta unplug. I keep getting reminded of that because I’m apt to treat myself like a machine and we’re just not. So take some time to unplug and chill and reset. You’ll be better for it.
Thanks, Kait. I’m trying to convince myself it’s not failure. Your words are helping me to see it in a more positive light. 🙂
Oh, I am so excited to hear about what happened at Biltmore. I loved my visit to Biltmore a few years ago, and I can only imagine nothing but interesting stories coming out of that place!
And Kait basically said what I was going to say, too. Sometimes, you just gotta, and I find that after I unplug, I’m pretty eager and renewed when I start things up again. So take the break, enjoy it, revel in it, even, and then revel in the renewed energy to follow, too!
The thing that happened at Biltmore is something I can’t explain at all. Maybe when everyone hears about it tomorrow, someone can shed some light on it. Don’t you just love teasers? LOL
I’m not used to unplugging. I’m a social, interactive kind of person, and yet all of a sudden, I didn’t want to visit any blogs. Or at least I didn’t want to comment on them. And I just couldn’t write. So I think I was just experiencing a little burnout, and things will get back to normal.
We seem to be having the same week, Lauralynn! I missed yesterday also. This is one of my busiest months of the year with my son’s wrestling. Not only matches, but our biggest fundraiser is next Sat – and I’m the secretary of our booster club, leaving my days to running around like a banshee. Two more weeks and things will slow down…two more weeks….two more weeks…lol.
I sure hope things settle for you – and that you have better workdays. Tough days at work really steal mental energy…and make us worth little more than a couch potato for a few days.
Some weeks can be just crazy, can’t they? I remember when my boys were in school. They were both in the band, and that kind of stuff takes up a lot of time. And then there were the times when it was my turn to work in the concession stand…or when it WASN’T my turn, but the other people didn’t show up. LOL
What really bugs me about the work thing is that I was needing to reload a bunch of programs on three new computers. But the tech support staff on a couple of the programs wouldn’t get back to me. If they hadn’t changed the procedures, I could have done it without their help, but…. Then the people who got new computers were upset because they didn’t have their programs. Grrrrr.
It is good to be unplugged sometimes. Sometimes you need that time to connect to others face to face rather than through cyberspace.
I can’t wait for everyone to hear your story today and to see what they thing of your “experience”. 🙂
We had fun unplugging this weekend, didn’t we? Even though we were working most of the time. 🙂
Getting ready to post about my experience.