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Earlier in the week, mythical wife sprung on me that her parents would take the girls for the holiday weekend, as she wanted to go on a road trip to visit friends out of state.\u00a0 The thought of a 13+ hour road trip each way was about as appealing as doing yard work, but the difference is that the yard work would always need to be addressed so long story short, I opted to stay home, completely alone and have myself a staycation.<\/span><\/p>\n I don\u2019t think it\u2019s hard to imagine that this was not a bad thing at all in my head.<\/span><\/p>\n However, as is often the eternal struggle for me, is fear of letting such freedom squander and my mind is always racing at trying to make sure every meal and every hour is made to be as \u201cworth it\u201d as I can, before my life reverts back to stressed out anxiety dad mode, and I hope to have at least one notable accomplishment during my solitude.<\/span><\/p>\n At the very least I can say that I\u2019ve had a very accomplished break, as I ran a great time for my Virtual Peachtree Road Race, getting back to a sub-60 minute 10K (57:52) and I got to do it on the Silver Comet Trail, which is pretty much my favorite place to run.<\/span><\/p>\n Furthermore, I did tackle the aforementioned hard work, cutting the grass in not just my front and back yards, but as well as the field adjacent to my home that I\u2019m responsible for and was hoping my now-former landscapers would tackle for my for a flat cost but clearly didn\u2019t like the idea and has since ghosted both me and my neighbors who used them.<\/span><\/p>\n Needless to say, I think I actually pushed myself physically to oblivion; I mean I made the conscious decision to do yard work after running a 10K like a fucking idiot, but I thought I could handle it as long as I stayed hydrated and took some breaks.\u00a0 But by the time I was done with the lawn, my body was exhausted, I had sweat buckets, twice now, and I was at the point where just about every bodily movement was resulting in Charley horse-like cramps in places I didn\u2019t even know could cramp, like my toes and obliques.<\/span><\/p>\n However, I probably accomplished more in a single morning than lots of people would have done throughout a long weekend.\u00a0 That\u2019s just how I roll, where I want to accomplish all my shit as soon as humanly possible, so that I can then loaf and do more self-gratifying things for the rest of the weekend; even if it put me in some legit bodily pain.<\/span><\/p>\n But then becomes the real challenge, of not squandering the time I have.\u00a0 After a nap, which is a rarity in my world in itself, I wanted to make sure the meals I ate were quality and whatever television or movies I watched were good.\u00a0 The clock of my staycation was ticking, and the anxiousness to make the most of it was already creeping in.<\/span><\/p>\n At one point I felt myself getting extra antsy because I felt I was starting to squander my solo time, and I was paralyzed by indecision on feeling like I needed to do something but what, but then I began to ask myself of what was so good about going out and eating out if there was no real motivation beyond not wanting to waste the time. At some point, forcing outings becomes the waste of time and worse off, a waste of money if I\u2019m doing it for the sake of going out.<\/span><\/p>\n Places these days don\u2019t want people loitering around anymore. America in general doesn\u2019t want to make places where people hang out and meander anymore. I racked my brain to think of places where I could nurse a cup of coffee or take my raptop and write or something, but aside from the few Starbucks that are always slammed, nothing came to mind and I realized that going out just isn\u2019t always worth it.<\/span><\/p>\n This time last year<\/a>, I made a post about how if I had a gun to my head and was told to relax, I\u2019d probably be toast, and although the same applies to the present, I think I\u2019m doing better than last.\u00a0 On top of the shit I\u2019ve already been productive with, I\u2019ve had some good meals, explored some restaurants and watched a lot of television; some good, others regrettable, but I\u2019ll probably post about the latter since I have some feelings about it, and I still have the time to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n Maybe I\u2019ll go to the pool. That\u2019s something I haven\u2019t done in eons, at least not without having to keep watch on two little humans to not drown or hurt themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Earlier in the week, mythical wife sprung on me that her parents would take the girls for the holiday weekend, as she wanted to go on a road trip to visit friends out of state.\u00a0 The thought of a 13+ hour road trip each way was about as appealing as doing yard work, but the … Continue reading The eternal struggle of making the best of my time<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,193,199,45,121,32,69,166],"class_list":["post-50758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-angst","tag-dad","tag-exercise","tag-fail","tag-homeownership","tag-running","tag-television","tag-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50760,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50758\/revisions\/50760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}