Step Away From the Cake

 I had some thoughts during our trip and want to dive into them a little more.  I thought about myself and my attitude toward people. I am a true introvert. Being around people, though I may enjoy it, is so draining on me. I spent Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday with Hubby 24/7 and I spent Saturday with a bunch of people I barely knew. Having no time to myself to reenergize, I was completely exhausted all week. I've realized that I need time by myself. Yesterday I worked on my marketing class for a bit, but then I was on the couch all day, watching TV. Hubby was outside. I didn't have to interact much. By late afternoon I felt like myself again. I needed that alone, downtime to recalibrate my mental self. So yeah, I need time alone in order to be myself. I was so drained of energy, I had the hardest time getting through the week. So yeah, it's super important that I get that downtime. I need to keep that in mind whenever we travel. I need to schedule some downtime for ...

 So much has happened in the last 11 days, I'm not sure where exactly to start.  The last post had me in a pretty good place. I was feeling good about workouts, school, and just about everything. Well, the wheels fell off that bus.  The week was good, but not great. I got some workouts in on Wednesday and Thursday. Classes went fairly well. The hardest part was planning for a sub for Monday. It just takes so much time and effort to plan for a sub. There has to be things to do but it can't be too complicated so the sub can handle it. But I got it done.  Then came the weekend and the road trip.  Up early Friday and we hit the road by 6:30 am. Made good time until we hit the grapevine where we ran into an accident and were stuck there for about 2 hours. After that, we zoomed through to Sacramento and got there around 8:30 pm.  Luckily we did not have to get up early the next day, so we lounged around the hotel room and left around 9am. We dropped Mavy off at P...