Sick & Busy – Clare

I don’t know how to explain that title properly. I think the best way to put it is that I got sick from being too busy – or maybe I simply became sick of being too busy. Both explanations work, to be perfectly honest.

Work has been taxing, physically and mentally, with the latter taking a better share of the reason why I’m tired most of the time. As if the work I have at the office and the amount of traveling that I have to do is not enough, work has still managed to creep into my brain even during the hours when I should be relaxing at home (or out of it, as the case may be). I know one should not bring work home and I have learned not to but I have to admit, with the amount of work to be done it’s not been difficult for it to creep into my brain 24/7. Not good considering that I am not even paid on time – and that there have been instances when we don’t even know WHEN we were getting paid at all (then again, that’s another blog post altogether).

I miss working out (because working out produces endorphins and endorphins make you happy, according to Elle Woods) – I’m often too tired to do that when I get home because I literally fall asleep in bed with my work clothes on most days and just wake up in the middle of the night to change. And, if it hasn’t been obvious, I haven’t blogged as regularly as I used to. Work in the brain does that to me.

For the past few days though, I’ve just been home trying to recuperate from cough, colds and fever (why couldn’t I just say flu and get it over with?). It wasn’t good for a bit but now I’m better. I’m guessing that all I needed was to catch up on my sleep and just take a break from work. I even had my phone turned off for the duration of the break – something that I now enjoy doing whenever I feel the need to really relax.

I can’t believe how relaxed I’ve been when I realized today that it’s been more than 96 hours since I last looked at myself in the mirror – and I love it! Not that I haven’t taken care of myself in those past number of hours, but it’s just nice to think that I don’t have to worry about my appearance so much for these past four (almost five) days. In less than 40 hours though, it’ll be back to looking-in-the-mirror and the daily grind all over again.

Oh well, the break was good while it lasted.

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