Having Trouble Slowing It Down

It’s past 8PM on Friday night and I’m in front of my computer. This really isn’t where I want to be right now. I went back and forth on whether or not to write and decided to write a short post. At first it was the pressure of keeping up the daily writing habit, although I could’ve written a short offline post to keep up with that. After I thought about it, I decided that writing a short post might help me slow it down and transition into the evening.

It’s been a busy week, although not much busier than most. What might be making it difficult for me to slow it down is that we’re heading out of town for a night tomorrow. At the same time, I’m trying to squeeze in a 2.5+ hour bike ride first thing tomorrow morning and a 2+ hour bike ride when we get back on Sunday afternoon.

Taking everything together and looking at it from that perpective, the weekend starts to look pretty short. I’m probably afraid that the weekend’s going to fly by and catapult me into the next week, which will be busier than usual, trying to get things in shape before leaving for vacation the following week. While I consider myself very fortunate to have an opportunity to take a break on an island, there always seems to be a big push leading up to a vacation.

So that just might be it, the anticipation and associated feeling of intimidation related to a somewhat unbroken path of things to do from this Saturday until we head for the airport next Saturday. While realistically there will be pauses here and there, I think it’s looking ahead at this unbroken wall of things to get done that is contributing to me having trouble showing it down right now.