Me and my moods.
I call this a funk. It’s not like I’m down or anything, I just don’t feel like doing anything. I’m tired, run-down, listless . . . maybe I need some Vitametavegamin?
It isn’t that anything is wrong. It’s a normal crazy Wednesday. I discovered while sitting in my discussion group at my Bible Study that I had finished last week’s half-done lesson instead of this week’s lesson. Leaving this week’s lesson . . . half done. I had a less-than-fun trip to the grocery store with my four year old daughter who seems to be suffering from post-birthday-delusions-of-control.
So as I wandered around the kitchen, feeling out of sorts and directionless, I picked up the broom. And then I proceeded to do that crazy thing called “what I’m supposed to do.”
I tidied the kitchen, which wasn’t too bad, putting away the clean pots and baking sheets that have been sitting next to the sink “drying” for the past two to three days. I did a general pick up, taking shoes to their spot, and decluttering the dining room table. I even made my bed, which I’ve done almost every morning since starting this blog, but didn’t today. A sure sign that today was going to be a Day of Funk.
And crazy me even put away the vacuum cleaner. The vacuum cleaner that has been in the master bedroom since last week when I cleaned under my bed. It sat there all this time, including when it should have been used last Friday. I wound up the cord and lugged it to its home . . . EVEN THOUGH it will be pulled out again in less than 48 hours for Dust and Vacuum Day. My slob-brain resisted, but I did it.
The irony is that one of the ugh/blech/blah feelings I was having in my funk was that I had “nothing to write about.”
Well, there you go.
Sometimes, a funk like that precedes a cold or migraine for me. But sometimes, it means that I just need to get up and DO something already. Did you feel better after picking up?
Lisa in Hixson
Hee – I had to look up vitameata-whatever…I really thought it was a Saturday Night Live reference. :>)
For me, I think there's something about being away from the clutter that removes the scales from my eyes and gets rid of that selective vision. I went to visit a cousin with a new baby today (can you say BABY CRAZIES?!? I told her she was lucky I didn't try to smuggle him out in my purse…) and when I got home tonight, I realized that most of the flat surfaces in my kitchen are covered. Sigh. I'll get on that tomorrow.
Lisa, I definitely felt better. Still run-down, but I'm actually getting over being sick last weekend.
Lenetta, I do agree that sometimes you don't see things when you're in the midst of it.
I know the funk you're talking about. Sometimes you just want to curl up in bed and stay there all day, but because you have kids that's pretty impossible, so you just kinda mope around the house looking for stuff to do, but feeling too yucky to actually do it. It's definitely a bummer, and one that I think we all face every once in a while. Unfortunately, it seems like mine tend to last for a couple of days, if not a week. It is a little comforting though, to know I'm not alone. Misery does love company, you know.
Sometimes it really helps just to do "what you are supposed to do" even if you don't feel like it…I often have the same feeling with running. I don't feel like going out and doing it, but I tell myself that if I still feel terrible after 10 minutes I can quit and go home…I have never quit – for some reason just getting out and doing it makes me feel better. The same with cleaning the house (although I don't think the endorfin rush is a big with cleaning!)
Somedays are just like that and I think it's okay to be sluggish once and awhile.
It is raining, windy and cold here and we are expecting snow because that is what Canadians should expect in April almost May sooooo today could be a funky day for me as well.
Maybe we should have a funky blog party, get over it and get something accomplished..lol