I've been missing in action, and then when I finally get onto social media it's to check in to see how my friends are doing. I'm ashamed to say that I'm so far out of the loop, one of my dearest friends little girl just turned 1, and I only found out she even existed several months ago.
So what in the world has me running around in circles trying to go straight? LIFE!
Okay, I'll attempt to be a bit more specific, especially since I haven't updated my blog in a moment. Once I started working full time, I put on hold my business, but only marketing it, as it is very much alive and well. Last summer I ran a full camp and used my two weeks vacation from my day job to do it, returning to work immediately after the camp was over (and I am still one tired sister). We implemented new curriculum, and the camp was great. Because I used my vacay time for work I had no additional time to actually take off for an actual vacay. When Christmas rolled around we (okay George) decided he wanted to drive to Mississippi to visit his family, so my second week of what would have been down time, was spent on the road with my relatives (my best friend keeps telling me to stop calling them that, but after 3600 miles, they're lucky that's all I was calling them). No vacay once again. It's now March, and after not having any real down time since December 2013, I'm taking the end of this month off.
I'm trying not to use my upcoming vacation for work, but considering my Christmas decorations are still sitting on my dining room table it's sort of hard not to think of all the tasks I can shove in one week off. I'm looking for a flexible job schedule that will give me some of my time back, because once it's gone it's gone. I feel like the world is passing me by, and I'm spending most of that time on the road either to work or from work. In five days I spend 14 hours on the road, and if I were a better linguist, I'd be fluent in French by now. I have nieces I don't ever have a chance to see (one of which was born last year and I have yet to meet her) and they live in the same county as I do. I have a son who is starting to lose his mind that I need to help him find it before I have to report my own self to CPS (because he forgets at times his parents are crazy), and a husband who needs some reeling in, as his ADD has gotten the better of him and he requires my organization skills to maintain his focus on his businesses.
And if that wasn't enough, we continue to look for more ways to increase our retirement portfolio so that we are not working our entire lives. Our goal is to retire early, and at the rate I'm going, I will need to. Last weekend (as if we needed another road trip) we did a 24 hour turn around trip to Cornudas, TX. 12 hours there and 12 hours back. We left on Friday night after I got off work and we got home Sunday morning (and yup, I was back in the saddle at work on Monday morning). We found that land is really cheap there, and our next project is starting a cattle farm. It was an extraordinary adventure, for which I'm grateful we survived (being stuck once again in a car with my relatives so soon after our MS trip). I plan on starting a whole new blog series on our cattle farm developments, so I'll keep you posted.
Watch for posts about Cornudas, TX coming soon, you have no clue what I've roped my family into. Partly because I'm tired and perhaps approaching an early midlife crisis, and partly because I've always liked getting my hands dirty (I played in the mud as a child and tried to convince my grandmother to eat my mud pies).
So what in the world has me running around in circles trying to go straight? LIFE!
Okay, I'll attempt to be a bit more specific, especially since I haven't updated my blog in a moment. Once I started working full time, I put on hold my business, but only marketing it, as it is very much alive and well. Last summer I ran a full camp and used my two weeks vacation from my day job to do it, returning to work immediately after the camp was over (and I am still one tired sister). We implemented new curriculum, and the camp was great. Because I used my vacay time for work I had no additional time to actually take off for an actual vacay. When Christmas rolled around we (okay George) decided he wanted to drive to Mississippi to visit his family, so my second week of what would have been down time, was spent on the road with my relatives (my best friend keeps telling me to stop calling them that, but after 3600 miles, they're lucky that's all I was calling them). No vacay once again. It's now March, and after not having any real down time since December 2013, I'm taking the end of this month off.
I'm trying not to use my upcoming vacation for work, but considering my Christmas decorations are still sitting on my dining room table it's sort of hard not to think of all the tasks I can shove in one week off. I'm looking for a flexible job schedule that will give me some of my time back, because once it's gone it's gone. I feel like the world is passing me by, and I'm spending most of that time on the road either to work or from work. In five days I spend 14 hours on the road, and if I were a better linguist, I'd be fluent in French by now. I have nieces I don't ever have a chance to see (one of which was born last year and I have yet to meet her) and they live in the same county as I do. I have a son who is starting to lose his mind that I need to help him find it before I have to report my own self to CPS (because he forgets at times his parents are crazy), and a husband who needs some reeling in, as his ADD has gotten the better of him and he requires my organization skills to maintain his focus on his businesses.
And if that wasn't enough, we continue to look for more ways to increase our retirement portfolio so that we are not working our entire lives. Our goal is to retire early, and at the rate I'm going, I will need to. Last weekend (as if we needed another road trip) we did a 24 hour turn around trip to Cornudas, TX. 12 hours there and 12 hours back. We left on Friday night after I got off work and we got home Sunday morning (and yup, I was back in the saddle at work on Monday morning). We found that land is really cheap there, and our next project is starting a cattle farm. It was an extraordinary adventure, for which I'm grateful we survived (being stuck once again in a car with my relatives so soon after our MS trip). I plan on starting a whole new blog series on our cattle farm developments, so I'll keep you posted.
Watch for posts about Cornudas, TX coming soon, you have no clue what I've roped my family into. Partly because I'm tired and perhaps approaching an early midlife crisis, and partly because I've always liked getting my hands dirty (I played in the mud as a child and tried to convince my grandmother to eat my mud pies).
In the mean time, I'm still trying to find the time to enjoy life, rather than being tossed around by it. Quelqu'un aider ce fou!
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