This has been a really rough week. Like stick my head in a hole, stop answering my phone, eat too much food and do anything to distract myself for a few minutes kind of week.
I haven’t been feeling that great. I thought I was coming down with something at first, but now, I think I’m just worn out. I just finished up my first semester of grad school this week. Last Wednesday, I had to give an oral presentation of my final paper topic and discuss with the class what I was researching and what I had discovered in the course of that. Then the actual paper was due this Monday evening, so I spent much of the weekend getting that finished up and ready to turn in.
Work has definitely been a little crazy. I sort of thought that with it being the holidays that it would be pretty slow for a couple of weeks, but it has actually been even busier than it was before. But I am also very thankful that I am working at a place that allows me to work from home when I need to and I actually feel that I was very productive this week, yet got some time to rest and relax, too.
Our washing machine has gone out. It doesn’t fill with water correctly and then doesn’t drain the water at the end. We had it looked over by a repairman and, turns out, it’s going to cost about the same to fix it as it cost new.
And my puppy has been dealing with some issues lately. We noticed that her leg seemed to be hurt, but it wasn’t a consistent issue and it didn’t slow her down. Then just this week, it seemed to be worse, so we’ve taken her to the vet and hopefully can figure out how to get her all better. But it has really been worrying me this week. It’s so hard to see your dog not feeling well and not really being able to do anything about it.
All of this has been weighing on be this week. I haven’t wanted to do anything or talk to anyone. It has taken a lot out of me. I’d love to say that I’m just going to move on from here, but there are still things that we have to deal with and figure out. And it’s even more since we’re just a week away from Christmas and there’s still so much to do. I don’t need to be walking around in a funk.
So the plan… Head to bed early tonight. Get a good night sleep. Wake up early so I can get the day started and get everything done that I need to. From there, I’m just taking it one day at a time, especially since every day between now and basically the new year is filled up and I’m going to need to stay focused in order to make it through. It’s not going to be an easy few weeks ahead and we’ve got some pretty big decisions to make, but we’ll make it through. Like I said, one day at a time.