Summer is now upon us (though with the gray clouds and misting rain outside, you'd think otherwise). I have kind of a love/hate relationship with the summer season.
I love the weather, the warmth, the longer days. I love the activities, the sports, the ability to spend time outdoors. But on the flip side, working full-time doesn't allow me to enjoy the weather and the warmth much from the hours of 9-5/5:30... which in and of itself can be a bit depressing, wanting to be outside, but having to be inside working. The longer days and all the activities makes for a very busy week and not much time to actually relax and rest. I find that I'm so much busier during the summer months. Between church events, sports events, family and friends, there's not much time left post-work hours to do anything else. The aforementioned categories themselves don't always find a spot in the week, and it becomes a bit of a juggling act to try to find a balance between all of them. That being said, I still enjoy all of them and wouldn't want to give any of 'em up.
I'm now on summer hours here at work, which means working from 9-5:30 from Monday to Thursday and 8:30-1:00 on Fridays. It's a pretty sweet deal, and gives me some time Friday afternoons to just veg and relax before ramping up for the activities of Friday evening and the weekend. That being said, the few hours on a Friday afternoon are sometimes not enough to recuperate from the exhausting week and previous weekend. *shrugs* Apart from giving up a bunch of activities, there's not much else I can do. What's funny is that at the end of every summer season, I say to myself, "Ok, next year, try not to be so busy during the summer months." And the next year comes and though the schedule may be different, the busyness is inevitable :P
So for summer 2009, this is what my week(s) look like:
Monday
- Ultimate
Tuesday
- Date night
- Family/Friends
- Sketchpad stuff (if any)
Wednesday
- Small group (every other Wednesday)
- Family/Friends
- Sketchpad stuff (if any)
Thursday
- Ekklesia practice
Friday
- Blitz practice
Weekends are always variable cuz every weekend is slightly different. No doubt, at the end of summer I'll probably be lamenting how tired I am and how I should opt out of having so many activities in such a short timespan. That being said, guaranteed that summer 2010 will probably be just as if not more busy. :P I chalk it up to selective suppression of memories from the previous years. :)