A Weekend Play-by-Play
Posted by Sarah on 27 Jan 2008 at 05:17 pm | Tagged as: Recaps
I’m at home today with Rob, whose a sickie. I’m furiously using Zicam nasal swabs in the hopes of not catching what he has. Our weekend has consisted of:
- I had my first class of the semester called “The Principalship” Saturday morning (I have lots of friends in this class, so it will be fun, especially since the class is very discussion- & group project-oriented.)
- Roasted 2 cups of coffee beans for the upcoming week
- Made a half-gallon of yogurt
- Saturday night, went and saw There Will Be Blood with Rob, Melissa and John (Some of my favorite people!), then ate Vietnamese food afterward
- Made Potato Leek Soup with Arugula for lunch Sunday
- Did lots of laundry (4 loads- yep, it’s been a while)
- Made beet salad- SCRUMPTIOUS, but now my hands are pink
- Worked on grading math tests and writing homework
- Ran with Royal outside- 50 degrees and shorts-weather (although there was still snow on the ground)
- Played Scrabble with Rob- we are so addicted
I’m trying very hard to be deliberate about work and play in my life. I can easily be drawn into things that I enjoy doing (even things for work or school), and let the time slip away without noticing. Weekends are sometimes stressful if I try to work the whole time, making lists to check off every item that needs to be done. On the other hand, sometimes Mondays can feel awful when I haven’t done anything to prepare for them, and then my whole week stinks as a result.
I’d like to think that I’m doing a better job than I used to, where I’d go in to school and work all day Sunday. How do you balance these opposing forces in your life?
If only I looked that good today when we played Scrabble. What the blog world doesn’t know is that I was in a bathrobe with bedhead. (Sniff)
Oops, now they do.
Aww, poor Rob! I’m not feeling well today either…maybe not as bad as you, but I slept until 12:45!
Sarah, I completely understand what you are saying! I hate starting out the week not feeling ready and yet finding the right balance can be so difficult! If you figure it out any insights, let me know!
Miss you!
Hee hee hee…sometimes life is just so much easier when you can turn it into bullets! (your bullets are so much prettier than mine.)
As for your question about how to balance…I have no idea. : ( Right now I (THANKFULLY!!) have a job that I leave behind as soon as I walk out the door. But when I was a teacher, it was almost impossible to not work on school stuff in all of my spare time. I’m sure as the years go by, it gets easier and easier. Those first years of teaching are the hardest!!
[...] A Weekend Play-by-Play I m at home today with Rob, whose a sickie. I m furiously using Zicam nasal swabs in the hopes of not catching what he has. Our weekend has consisted of: I had my first class of the semester called The Principalship Saturday morning (I have lots of friends in this class, so it will be fun, especially since the class is very discussion- group project-oriented.) Roasted 2 cups of coffee beans… with Rob, Melissa and John (Some of my favorite people!), then ate Vietnamese food afterward Made [...]