zeptember

I’m home alone as usual on a Sunday afternoon but the difference today is that I’m enjoying it. I have done nothing physically active all day today. Sunday is usually my day to get all the housework and laundry done before the work week begins again. Today there was so much going on and I totally cleared my schedule.

• There was afternoon tea in the backyard, courtesy the neighbor upstairs.
• There was a sheet rock party at a friend’s house - a work party to help him get his new house in order so he and his wife and infant can move in.
• Another neighbor in the back of the house needed help getting her digital converter box all set up because as of last Thursday, broadcast television as we’ve always known it in the U.S. ceased to be. I called the FCC and we got a guy to come out and wire everything up for my neighbor, because I didn’t know how. I have not had regular TV or cable TV for probably six years now, by choice. We just have DVD and VHS hookup when we want it. We did not purchase the digital converter for our home.
• A neighbor two doors down wanted me to babysit her toddler.
• A neighbor almost three blocks down wanted me to babysit her toddler.

I cleared all of it off the schedule because of george, who is not actually showing himself, yet, but today I’m extremely weak, tired and sore.
I even asked my husband to go to the grocery for me because I couldn’t even manage that.

Aside from the blah of the pain, the fatigue, the weakness, I feel so happy to be able to sit alone and journal. I’ve truly been needing alone time like this.

Every Sunday, my husband has band practice, comes home for an hour, then goes to game night with his buddies. Sometimes I mind, sometimes I don’t. I would love to get a Sunday evening group hangout thing going for myself. But not tonight.

Friday was the last day of school. As of Monday, there will be no kids for one week. We teachers and assistant teachers will be tearing down our classrooms and preparing for summer daycare, which begins on June 22nd.
Out of nine weeks of summer session, each of us only have five weeks of employment. We’re all juggled around between the school we’ve been working at and the toddler school, which is located a couple miles away - over by where I used to nanny in Spring, 2008. There’s too many teachers and not enough students enrolled for summer session.
I’ll be using any extra time I can make for myself to look for other employment, or to stack babysitting jobs to tide me through until end of August, when the full time school year begins again.

With the lack of full time employment so soon after returning from our honeymoon, I should have been stacking babysitting jobs already, and should have worked all weekend. The opportunity to work all weekend presented itself - by two different families. But the thing is, I have to also take care of my health. Right now, I’m in downtime. My body is just not coping, nor are my emotions. So the money will just have to wait.