Sunday Today is Sunday, and Sunday, traditionally, should be a day of rest. However, for me it hasn't felt much very restful because of the work at school that spills over into my personal life. And though I'm at the end of the run of rehearsals for Winnie the Pooh there are still a myriad of tasks that need to be accomplished for this week. After which, I will launch into more full scale rehearsals for CAD, and really thinking more critically about how to put forth, the kindergarten and first grade plays as we get ready for May. I have a couple of errands to run yet, and that can be frenetic but today I'm trying to take it at a different pace which is more of a. Let's do this as a fun project not running racing everywhere. Going to have coffee might help that event, walking the dog certainly gives me an option of feeling more normal than in a work mode. I also am deferring my work on my Masters essay certainly because my head is not fully in that moment it's more in more do I have to get accomplished for this week and that moment so as I slip into the kind of transition between work and relaxation. I think the physical act of getting exercise always gives me that more abundant energy that I need to relax, you need energy to relax I've decided and that's sounds silly in some ways, but it's for me it's very true if I don't put some effort into an energy into relaxation it, it feels more of a burden than, than it does a Untitled NotePage 1 of 2Transcribed by https://otter.aipleasure. I also have lessons to think of for the upcoming weeks, there's so much work around surrounding everything I do, that it never feels as though there's a moment just to be bored. My mother always talked about the great importance of being bored that both being bored means you have time to just not think, you know, there's sometimes when you just need time for your mind to clear. I guess that's why people meditate. And for me, folding clothes, taking a shower, cleaning, those our own meditative activities which to this morning I did a little bit of I straightened and, and maybe not cleaned but I organized and that always feels very meditative for me as well. Keeping to that, I'm going to try in the next week in the evenings except on thursday friday where I have shows. I'm going to try to reserve that just for Tom and myself, or even just for me, because there are times when I need time away from all all my loved ones, including my husband and daughter. And that isn't always easy to do because I feel the few remaining hours I have in the date need to be spent with them but sometimes I need time away from that as well. Cooking is a great joy shopping for food can be if I allow myself to, and just being in nature, even though I'm not a big outdoors person, it helps
