Work Day 6: Back to reality…

One of the lovely things about being in training—holed up alternatively in a basement classroom or in front of my laptop at home until all hours—was that I got to put off a whole host of day-to-day responsibilities, a lot of which I really hoped would just fade away into oblivion. Sadly, three-months’ worth of backed-up, put-off, ignored, and/or pushed-aside everyday obligations have started to creep back into the picture.

For one thing, I haven’t balanced my checkbook in over three months. I’m not overdrawn, probably because we as a society rarely write checks anymore, so I don’t have a float on anything.

Also, it occurred to me the other day that I need to get my 16-year-old Beetle into the shop for maintenance service. Otherwise, I’m going to be driving in the dead of winter in a snowstorm in back of some enormous 18-wheeler, where I’ll find out the hard way that I have no windshield wiper fluid. I know what you’re thinking…grow up and check your fluids! Honestly, I check the oil, but I never bother to check anything else, as the mechanics usually do that during said maintenance service.

I went back to the gym, which in itself has been hilarious; especially that part where I really thought that walking and doing push-ups for three months was going to be a viable substitute for ALL 10 Bodypump tracks. Oh, sure…that was last Friday and my muscles are STILL in screaming agony. I can’t even get dressed without needing Advil. Even YOGA was a stretch for me after a three-month absence (no pun intended).

I’m still sneaking about, avoiding other things, evaluating whether or not I need to continue them. If nothing else, I do need to carve out free time to do my continuous coding/learning. That’s not going to happen if I still have knucklehead stuff I’m making time for.

Speaking of which, the new work laptop is at 32.49%.

Author: WildKnitter

By day I work for a large insurance company. By night and the rest of my life, I share my life with a spouse, a bossy cat, four step-children, and many, many grandchildren. Also, of course, my mad passion is my knitting and crocheting. My latest adventure is something called Coding Bootcamp!