Mental Health Day
I am having a mental health day today (ie I took a day’s annual leave, because I felt like I was going to have a melt down otherwise). I don’t know why sometimes I feel like I have hit the wall. It’s only February! But in January I was busy writing on the EQUIP book club, then last weekend my old flatmate moved out and I changed rooms. I didn’t expect this to be a big job but by the time I’d taken the bed apart, taken books off shelves, drawers out of the dresser, files out of the filing cabinet etc so I could shove them all around to the next room, it took a long time. I interrupted this to go to a hen’s night last Saturday, which was a lovely but a reasonably late night. Then Sunday was church, I was invited to lunch, which was also lovely (I wanted to go home for a nap but thought I’d make the most of it), then went to the supermarket to buy stuff to bake something for Monday night, came home and baked, loaded a post on the EQUIP site etc, and then transferred the contents of my wardrobe to the next room. So, Monday things were still something of a shambles on the home front, that night I was off to an MTS (Ministry Trainee Strategy) Worker’s supper, with baking, Tuesday night was bible study, Wednesday night was the theatre. Around these outings I had been doing fascinating things like defrosting the freezer, launching an attack against the shower tile grout, from which I refused to give up till it waved the white flag of white cleanliness in surrender, sorting through stuff. So, sitting at work yesterday afternoon falling asleep, knowing that I had to go to the shops that night to get a wedding present for Saturday, wondering when I was going to get to the real estate agent, vacuum, clean the bathroom etc (before the new flatmate comes this Saturday) because my Saturday looks like this: 8:30am-1:00pm church boot camp (yes, 8:30am!!), 3:00pm till late wedding, and that I had something on Sunday afternoon after church I just went arggh! and took a day off. I think it really was the thought of having no Saturday free at all that was behind the arggh!
But so far so good. I have had a little sleep in, been for a jog (albeit a slow one because it was later in the morning and it’s a heat wave outside) been to the shops for something to organise the wardrobe so I can put my clothes away (because this wardrobe, even though the room is bigger, for some reason has less space), been up to the real estate agent, cleaned stuff. I am now going to have a snooze :). Then I am going to sort my wardrobe, iron my dress for the wedding, wrap the present, maybe even paint my toenails. And hopefully I will be cool, calm and collected and ready for the whole day out when I get up in the morning.