Step Away From the Cake

I usually get up around 4 am. Lately, I haven't been getting up until 4:15 am. Wednesday morning, Bella had to go outside at 3:30 am. We let her out and when she came back in she was generally making a pest of herself. Around 3:45 am I decided to just get up and at least Hubby could get a little more sleep. So I got up early, made my coffee, and really, really enjoyed the alone time. When I don't get up until 4:15, I just have time to make coffee and use the bathroom before Hubby gets up. On Wednesday, I made coffee, used the bathroom, sat scrolling through Facebook, etc. It was really nice and relaxing. In fact, it was so relaxing that I decided to walk to work. Yes! Walk to work!!! I did and it was amazing. I quickly realized how I am missing my alone time. I am an introvert and I need that time to recharge. I love my Hubby, but I am basically with him all the time. We work at the same place. We live together. We got almost everywhere together. This is not how our relations...

I was going to write this post because I keep thinking I have a big decision to make. Whether or not to continue with my dissertation. I'm at a point where the writing is going fairly well, but I owe the school money and I need to pay before I can register again. So I'm going to be taking the summer off to try and get caught up with the money part. I really do want to finish this thing, I deeply want a Dr. in front of my name, but the thought of taking the summer off is rather appealing too. I have a lot I want to do this summer in terms of school so not having to focus on that would be rather nice. So I think, well, maybe I'll just stop here. I won't be the first person in history to be ABD (all but the dissertation). But then I've come this far and recently it's started to go really well, I hate to leave it unfinished. So I think I will do with my summer as I originally planned. I will devote time to the things I want to do for school and then some time to my ...