Week In Review #25

It feels a bit pointless doing the week in review at the moment, since there is very little of much significance to actually look back on. The days and weeks are flying by and hurtling us toward the festive season and the end of the year. The week has been dominated by this awful cold I have had, so most evenings were spent tucked up in bed, trying to keep warm and expend as little energy as possible. I didn't go to the gym at all, mainly because I was already so tired from being unwell.

Work has been OK, mainly just busy and samey, but at least I haven't had much time to be bored. I am actually kind of enjoying the fact that there are tasks each day that I can just get done. OK, so there will be a never-ending supply of such tasks, but at the moment, I like the fact that they are not on-going vague, loose-ended activities that never seem to get finished. I might be totally bored in a couple of months, but I'll deal with that if and when it happens. At the moment, I'll take boredom over stress and dissatisfaction.

Seeing Lolly on Monday was a tonic. It was good fun as always and a welcome distraction from everything else that was going on. I've had a few good conversations with The Mrs this week too. She always gives me a giggle and helps to cheer me up, or at least distract me from my own issues by trying to get my perspective on her own. It's hard to wallow in self-pity when your sympathy, empathy and advice is required. That's a definite good thing.

The bizarre 'conflict' with Big Sis apparently blew over of its own accord. I was still feeling a little bit put out by it, but Big Sis seemed to be pretending nothing happened, so I went along with that. I reckon if I had behaved that way, the situation would be slightly different right now, but I'm not one to carry on silly disagreements that I didn't even have any direct involvement with in the first place! An odd occurance of pointless upset for no real reason that I can see.

It has been freeeeeeezing this week. Really chilly, but mostly dry and occasionally bright, which is preferable to rain in my book any day. Did I ever mention that NY Guy and I have been in touch? Not a whole lot, but a little. Not really worth mentioning, if I'm honest. I'm trying to work out what the point of him is. He isn't consistent, isn't thoughtful, has a one-sided approach to the relationship and doesn't seem to serve a worthwhile purpose in my life. I should have learnt the lesson by now of pruning unnecessary negativity out of my existence where possible. Maybe I have a fixation with fixing people, not realising that in the process of trying to do so, I would break myself.

Another week has come and gone and with each passing day, a tiny sense of excitement comes with it. I am so looking forward to having some time off work, some time to rest, some time to just enjoy guilt-free, some time to be both productive and lazy as necessary. I am hoping to see The Mrs sometime soon, am meeting my uni girls for lunch just after Christmas, will probably see Lolly at some point and am also hoping to catch up with D if we both get a spare afternoon. It just occurred to me that it was The Ex's mum's birthday yesterday. I had been pondering on whether to send her a card a few weeks back, but now I've missed it. I'm still in two minds as to whether to send them a Christmas card. Probably not a good idea. It's strange that the Christmas season prompts us to think of times past and friends previous and present. Just this evening, Mum and I were discussing the sentiment of Auld Lang Syne and how this time of year, the atmosphere and the music makes us both feel nostalgic. Conflicts can be momentarily forgotten, disagreements dissolved and so forth. I'm starting to think retrospectively again, as I do quite often anyway, but especially towards the end of each year. It's time to take stock, make mental notes of lessons learned, throw away the baggage you don't want to carry into next year and start a new chapter. There are less than three weeks left of 2009 and I am getting ready to welcome 2010 with open arms.

Happy week, y'all.