stir crazy

thought: i have more free time now than ever and i don't know what to do with myself

i am fast approaching my mid-twenties and i think my life is beginning to slow down. since accepting a 40/hr a week job last summer and being (nearly) finished with school, my life has slowed down and sped up in many different ways. my leisure time is getting larger by the second and i do not know what to do with myself. currently, my body is telling me to sleep. i need it. i know i need it. i've had a horrible cough for about a week and a half. i do not need to see a doctor...i just need life to slow down enough to where i am able to sleep for a long period of time without being bothered. i have that time, but it sometimes get interrupted. maybe this weekend i will be able to catch up on Friday and Saturday.

prior to last summer (mainly during college) my schedule would be something like: wake up around 6:45am. Go to school all day. Work all night. Sleep for a few hours. Repeat. Weekends were filled with working in the morning and hanging out with friends at night...or working Friday night, Saturday morning and afternoon, then maybe hang out with friends...or go back to work. then work from 7-1 on Sunday at an internship and go to work that evening. i never stopped going, you see. i was at 110% all the time. now that i have some "down time" i am noticing that i do love it a lot. i wouldn't trade my fast paced life for anything...but let me tell you it would have been nice to slow down a bit back then.

it's funny how much i have changed in a year. last summer i would have never thought about relaxing or making an effort to blog every night while listening to classical music. i was go go go all the time. i don't remember ever being tired either. maybe it's because i didn't have time to think about it! now, i find myself coming home from work and wanting to go right to be some nights! hence why i am trying to keep myself busy. this week, it has been cleaning. my car is completely cleaned out. i do not think it has been this clean since it was bought by it's first owner. it really is pretty. before that, i did all of my laundry...everything...my drawers are full now. not that i didn't have clothes or wore dirty clothes before, but i have a habit of putting clean laundry on my bed and leaving it there...then my dog gets into it and my clothes smell like her. not cool. so i changed that. my next task is to clean out my room. maybe even re-arrange it...no, probably not that. but give it a good scrub down and put some pictures up definitely. then i will sort through the clothes i am giving away and see what is fit for donations and what can just be tossed. after that, who knows.

i am going to say that it is the weather that is making me restless. i normally get like this in the spring but i didn't notice it so much this year. i attribute it also to having some free time. i almost feel flighty. yes, i would love a good adventure. see, that is the young person in me talking. a road trip for an extended amount of time would be the best thing in the world. it is on my list of things to do some day...as is going to as many major league ball parks as i can. i think that those trips would be combined. a massive road trip around the country to see ball games and to stop in quirky towns that are definitely set up for tourists who still road trip. they are my favorite.

but i can feel the responsible, working woman in me saying that that is not economical or responsible and that my body probably cannot take such a trip. AS IF. i can totally do that...when i find the time...which is ironic since i am writing about all of the free time i have.

wouldn't that be a cool honeymoon? roadtripping. just stay in the master suite of a bunch of different hotels for a few weeks. dang...that's a really cool idea. especially if you get married when there is generally nice weather all around the country. dude, i am totally going to talk some guy into that some day. haha. i will let you know how it goes. it will be a very long time until that happens, but keep the idea stored somewhere. it shall return!

with that, i am going to sign off. instead of spending my time now on the internet, i am going to try and get rid of this cough...it is not fun at all.