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The Queen of the Obvious has had several more truths revealed to her in the past few days. Gather 'round and learn!
1. Vacations are relaxing.
Usually this is something that is not obvious to me, because most vacations for me have been *family* vacations, which, while they include fun activities and beautiful scenery and good food,, also involve a lot of schlepping and kvetching and generalized tension. THIS family vacation, with the in-laws was amazing though. Rocking in the hammock looking out over the lake, I drank white wine and read Cunt and had a moment of clarity and openness to my own wishes hopes and thoughts and voice in a way that has been missing seemingly for years. It's nice to know it's still there. Also, Jake relaxed enough for me to remember what he's like when he's happy and relaxed, which I *also* hadn't seen for over a year. Coincidence?
2. If there is something I need to do, I can probably do it, though it may take more time than getting someone else to do it for me.
Moving my home-office space to the teeny storage room that some of you have probably chucked coats into when visiting here so that Katie can have the upstairs room and we can all have a DINING ROOM which will be really exciting when it's done. The first stage of this grand tile-puzzle is me getting set up down here though, and it was really fun actually to spend time painstakingly cleaning the empty room while thinking about what could go where and how it would be. I can't usually picture layout-y things in advance, and it's nice to have this part of the move happening first, so that I am trying out ideas and doing things slowly before other people need me to have gotten my crap out of wherever RIGHT NOW and I need to decide something long-term in a rushed way and thus get it not-perfect, which will bug me. I've been getting even more in touch with my inner perfectionist lately. But not in the pathological way.
1. Vacations are relaxing.
Usually this is something that is not obvious to me, because most vacations for me have been *family* vacations, which, while they include fun activities and beautiful scenery and good food,, also involve a lot of schlepping and kvetching and generalized tension. THIS family vacation, with the in-laws was amazing though. Rocking in the hammock looking out over the lake, I drank white wine and read Cunt and had a moment of clarity and openness to my own wishes hopes and thoughts and voice in a way that has been missing seemingly for years. It's nice to know it's still there. Also, Jake relaxed enough for me to remember what he's like when he's happy and relaxed, which I *also* hadn't seen for over a year. Coincidence?
2. If there is something I need to do, I can probably do it, though it may take more time than getting someone else to do it for me.
Moving my home-office space to the teeny storage room that some of you have probably chucked coats into when visiting here so that Katie can have the upstairs room and we can all have a DINING ROOM which will be really exciting when it's done. The first stage of this grand tile-puzzle is me getting set up down here though, and it was really fun actually to spend time painstakingly cleaning the empty room while thinking about what could go where and how it would be. I can't usually picture layout-y things in advance, and it's nice to have this part of the move happening first, so that I am trying out ideas and doing things slowly before other people need me to have gotten my crap out of wherever RIGHT NOW and I need to decide something long-term in a rushed way and thus get it not-perfect, which will bug me. I've been getting even more in touch with my inner perfectionist lately. But not in the pathological way.