I wrote something up before in the past couple of month and never hit post. Honestly, most days I am just tired. I feel like I am constantly trying to figure out how to balance it all. It’s a constant. Every new school year for the kids, it’s new schedules combined with my work and the general life stuff (like shopping, cleaning the house, laundry, garden, taking care of my health and my kids’, everything). Maybe it would be easier if I was a list person? Anyway, blogging has been something that fell of the wagon in these past couple of months.
This morning it’s a beautiful day in Berkeley, California. So on my way from the parking garage to work I decided to stop at a coffee shop and analyze some data (for work) and start writing, in the hope that it will be the start to do it on a more regular basis again (for me). I am sorry I have not been checking in much with the lovely people from NaBloPoMo that San got together. It’s definitely not you! Hopefully it’s not to late to reconnect…
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So happy to read from you. I have missed your posts. But I can totally understand that life sometimes requires all the energy available to us.
I’ve been tired lately too. I have some motivational issues as time. I have migraines… it all slows me down. But I am hoping it is a phase.
Working from the coffee shop for a bit sounds like a nice change of scenery. I am hoping you can find the time to write when you feel like it. For me blog writing should always be a want to and never a have to.
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I can understand the migraines all too well. I have been going from ones a month to ones a week and recently twice a week but I hope it’s going to get better again. I hope the same for you.
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So excited to see your post pop up… and it’s never too late to reconnect. 🙂
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Thank you San! I am glad that people are still around…
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Never too late to reconnect! And your points about trying to find balance are very relatable. There is so much to juggle!
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I know I am not alone in this, but hearing it does help.
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Welcome back! juggling life work is not always easy, we try to seek balance when it’s elusive at the times. I love the idea of spontaneous coffee break.
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Thank you Coco! The coffee break felt really good. I think so often that it would be nice and I should probably do it more frequently.
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Life gets busy. The great thing about our little blogging community is it’s always available and welcoming, understanding that life and time for blogging ebbs and flows. Parenting and work and just living life takes priority and it sounds like that’s exactly what you’ve been doing. Gold stars!!!
Balance. Sigh. It’s impossible, I think, and I kind of hate hearing the word balance, now. It seems like regardless of life circumstances, everyone seems to struggle with balance. People with kids and without, people with full time jobs and part-time jobs. I think the demands on our time expand to fill…all our time. I wish I had a magic solution to all the juggling of life and home and kids and relationships, but can 100% relate to feeling tired all the time and like I’m operating at 60% in every area of my life, and 100% in none of them!
Oh, and I am a LIST PERSON. Lists help me feel sane, but I don’t feel balanced…!
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Thank you for the input and the gold stars Elisabeth! You always have the best insight ❤️ It already helps me to know I am not alone with this. Especially with social media I sometimes feel like everyone else has it way more together than I do (of course deep down I know this is likely not the case but some days it’s difficult to turn off).
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So glad to see a post here! Glad you’re doing OK, sorry you’re so busy. Balance can be so elusive. Sometimes if you want to blog, you just have to find SOMETHING to write about it and do it, and then your brain starts thinking that way again. I know I’ve gone times when I blog every day, and my brain definitely looks for ‘blog fodder’, and then there are other times when I get out of the habit and don’t blog for months, and then it all just feels overwhelming. I hope to see more, welcome back!
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Thank you! I definitely tend to overthink it. Maybe less procrastinating and more just doing it and hitting post.
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