Yet Another Entry About Being Busy

There’s something about spring that sends me into overdrive. It is always a crazy busy time of year, no matter how calm I tell myself it’s going to be. Throw in wedding planning plus potential house buying and instead of just crazy busy, it’s CRAY. ZEE. BUSY.

Take Wednesday night, for example. After a full day at work, I met Jose at the mortgage broker’s office for an hour. Then we had time for a quick dinner at Thai Cottage (yum). Then it was home where I worked on my class project for 3 hours, then checked a few small wedding items off the list, then started working on vectorizing artwork for BAM jerseys. Then it was midnight and definitely time for bed!

Last night? More of the same. Left work at 5:00 and went home to finalize my part of the class project. At 7, I met my group at Kinko’s where we spent an hour gathering all the pieces and putting them together to get printed. We’ll meet again on Monday to assemble everything. (The project was to make a board game — board, cards, rules, box, and all.) I was home by 8, at which point I did get to relax with Jose for an hour. Then it was more work on the BAM artwork followed by an early bedtime for once.

Today? I capped off the week with a rendezvous sim that left me exhausted, as they tend to do. I love simming, but in a way, being the rendezvous officer is like standing at attention for 8 hours straight. Once I get home at the end of the day, I am seriously wiped out.

One thing I haven’t done in far too long? Run. Whenever I’m busy, exercise is always the first thing to go, which is unfortunate since it’s such a good stress reliever. It’s also unfortunate because I am not going to be in good shape for the Texas Independence Relay. I hate to let my team down, but it is what it is. I might as well be honest about it.

Then again, I might not get to do the relay at all due to the continuing fluctuations in the STS-119 launch date. I’m working both the launch and the Orbit 1 shift, so I might have to be at work instead of running across east Texas. Though it would likely make my team faster, it would still be sad.