These past weeks...
Mar. 9th, 2025 09:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arthur_p_dentWell, it's only the beginning of March, and already I've:
- let my goals drop to abysmal numbers
- missed a weekly post
- missed a monthly recap post
- not made any plans for a quarterly activity
- not figured out how to do a "me" day or a "fun" day
I could go on, but why? I just looked back at February and even though I knew it wasn't good, I had no idea it was that bad. January was good, and I had several things I was interested in looking into, but I've been in another funk lately and I don't even have the mental energy to get started on any of it.
Work has been much the same (although now that I'm thinking about it I forgot to set something up on Thursday and people are going to freak when they find out). I found out last week that another plant closing is going to be announced this month. That'll be the fourth of the eight plants we had when the company was bought a couple years back. The writing is on the wall now - they're probably closing all of our plants. Which means in the next year or so, I'll be out the door. And so, I'm shifting into "ride it out for the severance" mode. I just hope it doesn't ruin my work ethic for my next employer.
There have been a few bright spots. Our group of former coworkers got together for dinner last week. Some of the people have stopped coming, which I kinda figured would happen, but there's still several who want to keep this up and that makes me pretty happy. I've been keeping up somewhat ok with running, but I seem to lose traction in the middle of the week so it's been a bit inconsistent. I got a couple pairs of new shoes last weekend and finally got some really nice weather today to try one of them out - did a 10K and they were very comfy. And, as it is with most Fridays, I got to spend some very nice hanging-out time with my good friend the past couple weeks (definitely the brightest of the bright spots!).
Coming up this week we've got some beautiful spring-like temps in the forecast, so I expect to get out running quite a bit. I've also got an all-day curling tournament on Saturday with a group of friends that I'm really excited for (and you know, that probably counts as a fun day and a quarterly activity - hallelujah!). But for this week I'll bring this to a close and head off to bed. Until next time. =]
- let my goals drop to abysmal numbers
- missed a weekly post
- missed a monthly recap post
- not made any plans for a quarterly activity
- not figured out how to do a "me" day or a "fun" day
I could go on, but why? I just looked back at February and even though I knew it wasn't good, I had no idea it was that bad. January was good, and I had several things I was interested in looking into, but I've been in another funk lately and I don't even have the mental energy to get started on any of it.
Work has been much the same (although now that I'm thinking about it I forgot to set something up on Thursday and people are going to freak when they find out). I found out last week that another plant closing is going to be announced this month. That'll be the fourth of the eight plants we had when the company was bought a couple years back. The writing is on the wall now - they're probably closing all of our plants. Which means in the next year or so, I'll be out the door. And so, I'm shifting into "ride it out for the severance" mode. I just hope it doesn't ruin my work ethic for my next employer.
There have been a few bright spots. Our group of former coworkers got together for dinner last week. Some of the people have stopped coming, which I kinda figured would happen, but there's still several who want to keep this up and that makes me pretty happy. I've been keeping up somewhat ok with running, but I seem to lose traction in the middle of the week so it's been a bit inconsistent. I got a couple pairs of new shoes last weekend and finally got some really nice weather today to try one of them out - did a 10K and they were very comfy. And, as it is with most Fridays, I got to spend some very nice hanging-out time with my good friend the past couple weeks (definitely the brightest of the bright spots!).
Coming up this week we've got some beautiful spring-like temps in the forecast, so I expect to get out running quite a bit. I've also got an all-day curling tournament on Saturday with a group of friends that I'm really excited for (and you know, that probably counts as a fun day and a quarterly activity - hallelujah!). But for this week I'll bring this to a close and head off to bed. Until next time. =]
