Long weekends and holidays

2011 has been pretty rubbish so far, in many many ways, yet I'm feeling some optimism now. Easter always seems to signal a positive turning point, and although it's been a long time coming, it is almost here at last. So there's a nice long weekend to look forward to, followed by a three day working week, followed by another nice long weekend which nicely rolls into a week off. This usually involves a short break in a European city: I guarantee that there will be an announcement this weekend!!

It's been a very stressful time of late as I've been involved in updating my training course at work, which has been very rewarding but which along with other life/work stuff has mentally and physically taken its toll :( I was involved in delivering the first of the new updated courses yesterday and today, which went well, however I'm going through yet another bout of fatigue where I'm tired all the time, even after a good night's sleep. Therefore I'm welcoming this holiday period as an opportunity to unwind. There are so many outstanding household tasks demanding my attention at the moment but I'll have to prioritise them - after all, you know what they say...'all work and no play' etc.

So there will be time for fun, and retail therapy, and pre-holiday planning, and getting out and enjoying this rare spell of dry warm weather too. And maybe even a little bit of blogging over the weekend :))

It's not that it's easy, we just make it look that way

Been feeling a bit more tense than usual of late. Among other things, the time has come again for me to tutor another training course tomorrow and my stomach feels as if it's tied in triple-knots at the thought of standing up and delivering a course to a large group of people, only a couple of whom I know. The hardest thing about all this for me is the time-management aspect, trying to fit it in with what is a very stressful time workwise at the moment. Oh and the other tough bit is slotting all the course content into reasonable timeslots over the two days. It may look easy but there's a lot of work goes into it to make the event run smoothly.

My heightened state of agitation has had an impact on my relationships with my closest loved ones: I wouldn't want to hang out with me at the moment, I'm even getting on my own nerves. Got some other potentially stressful stuff over the next week and then things should hopefully be easing off a little.

Stuff worth looking forward to: the Planet Salem Gothenburg 2010 Adventure.

Only eight weeks to go!! Planning is underway but it's already hit a slight snag which I really hope can be resolved as I want to get everything booked before this week is over. And if it all works out I'll be so excited that I'll probably burst. Which would probably save me having to crash-diet :)