(Not so) Young and Restless

Restless....ants in my pants. That describes my mood today. My question is why? I feel this way every once in a while and I always just muddle my way through. Well, I need to look at this some more. Why do I just wake up feeling restless and bored.

My thoughts:

1. While I say I am fine being by myself, and most of the time I am, there are times when I don't want to be by myself.
2. I haven't been able to knit for the past two weeks and it really did fill up a lot of my time. It also was the way I relaxed and focused. I know that if I want to get back to knitting, I can't just break the rules, knit and re-injure my arm.
3. I am frustrated with my arm situation. Yesterday morning I got up and felt great. No pain, no numbness and it had been that way for a few days. I had a chiropractic treatment and as of last night, I was back in pain and was having numbness & tingling.
4. So, while those are all the situational things, what are the other things that are going on? I'm pretty sure some of what I'm feeling is overwhelmed. I need to do some reorganizing and purging in my room and I really don't want to. I know I need to get rid of a lot of stuff. That is a little anxiety producing.
5. I'm a bit concerned about this big project at work and I want to just "get it fixed" but I need to go through the process of working within the system.

Okay, that's enough.

Tightest Arm Award? Letting Go.

All these years of defying the ergonomics lady, not using a keyboard tray, refusing to sit with my feet on the ground, knitting and crocheting have finally taken it's toll. I guess sleeping on my side hasn't helped either. I have given up and made a visit to the chiropractor to see if she can rid me of the numbness, tingling and pain I have in my right arm and shoulder. She told me I definitely had the tightest arm she had felt. (I sort of wanted to be proud of that but then realized it hurt too much.) Anyway, I sense some changes in the computer set up at work coming and I'm not happy about that BUT it's better than the pain, numbness and tingling that's been going on around here for a few days.

Last week I finished the Summer Scabbard, blocked it and brought it in to it's intended recipient. She had been trying it on throughout the knitting process to make sure it was fitting well (it's knit from the top down.) When she put it on after blocking, it was huge! I say huge because it was so very different from the way it had fit during knitting. Rather than being a relatively close fitting sweater, it turned into a drapey one. I was horrified. Yikes, what had happened. I went back and read the pattern...it said block it. I had used the yarn recommended (silk)...I had blocked silk before, what happened? I tried to figure out if I could "fix" it and she graciously let me. Luckily I sat and stared at the sweater, pondered it's existence and state of being and decided that I really didn't need to mess it up even more. My friend likes it the way it is. She likes that it will be very cool to wear out on a date. She's thrilled that I made it for her because no one has ever done that before. There you go....Lesson Learned.

Monday, Monday.....

As the song goes..."so good to me" but for me it was sort of bleh. I just couldn't get my head in the game today. I started the morning being late to two different meetings and then could just not get started. True to form though, about 1/2 hour before I left, I started to get into the swing of things. I wonder why this happens sometimes.

I recently read about a technique to keep you focused and productive in just 23 minutes of the day. You start out by spending 5 minutes in the morning thinking about and writing down the priorities for the day. Then hourly you do a process check to see how you are doing. You are supposed to set an alarm to remind you to check in. Then at the end of the day, you spend 5 minutes reviewing what you were able to accomplish during the day. I have been doing that for the last few days (including today) and most days I've been able to complete most of the things that are a priority. I just had a hard time creating my priority list for today.

As I was writing this it hit me that this might be a side effect of the 4-day work week. By the time I get back to work on Monday morning, I have lost the momentum that I had going the previous week. I think I will try writing down the priorities for the following week before I leave on Thursday evenings. I'll let you know how this works out for me.