The delicate act of balancing work and life, a nice day for a walk to get away from it all. May 19,2021

 

The past few weeks maybe months have been a whirlwind

of change for me.  My manager left, and then I took over her

spot.  I've been doing tons of training and learning.

I have also been training people to do different jobs that I used to do.

My lovely schedule of always having Monday and Tuesday off disappeared

and for awhile I was stuck working Monday through Friday.

I know most people would love a Monday through Friday 6:30 to 

3pm job.  I actually like to work the weekends and have

Monday and Tuesday off with my husband.

Things are finally coming back into balance.  I am proud that

I did not revert to my bad stress eating habits of

grabbing a Pepsi and eating chips or other bad food choices.

I  did have some bad exercise weeks, but I'm slowly getting

back to my five days of walking and starting on my

other strength exercises. ( I think these little ducks are so cute, I love 

the black lines near their eyes.)

I think the reason I was always hesitant about taking another management

job was I knew that it's hard to balance work and home life.

I so enjoy the time with my husband that I was a bit worried about how

that would change. When I  am a manager I give a huge amount of 

my time to my job.

I'm glad I spent 5 years not in a manager position, learning

how important spending time out with my husband is. 

We both talked about how we were missing our day dates the last few weeks.

So today we got out and walked the Provo River path by

the Bridal Veil falls.  I've tried a new photography thing,

Photographing fish.  What type of fish is this?

We spent the morning walking, bird watching and fish watching.

I felt all the stress and tension of the past few weeks slip away.

The work world was left far behind, and it was

just me, my husband and the great beautiful outdoors.

I think it funny to watch the ducks, I wonder what they

are eating down in the water.

This was such a cool bird to watch.

They flew around and then dove into the water.

I so wanted to see them catch a fish.

There were lots of trees in bloom.

It was a very sunny beautiful day, thus the squinty eyes. I should

have worn sunglasses.

Here are the falls.  I think there were some people climbing them.

How do balance life and work? 

I look forward to more Mondays off soon.

I need to plan some fun summer adventures.

G.G.