Taking it Slow

I'm doing laundry tonight, and as little else as humanly possible.

All of the sleepless nights and the busyness and stress at work, plus fighting off some sort of cold/flu bug for the last couple weeks are catching up to me.

I have to remind myself every once in a while not to schedule every minute of my time, to make sure I'm taking "Sabbath" time. Time for me, and for God. Time to not think. Time to pray, to read or write, to lay in a bath-tub, to light candles, or to simply watch television.

I'm trying to be a bit careful with the time I have in the evenings tonight, since I won't have the normal weekend to rest up. I'm at a conference for work this weekend - Friday and most of the day Saturday. Since the conference is at a really beautiful hotel in Kananaskis, I invited my friend Kari to join me as my "spouse" for the weekend, and I'm taking advantage of lower corporate rates to stay an extra day and hang with her. Can't wait to see her, but have to admit that I'll be really grateful when all the stress of planning this conference for work is over, and the piles of stuff involved in planning and carrying it out are off my desk.

And with that, I'm off to check on my laundry, and keep on doing "nothing" for the night!