Fuck.
It’s been a long damn day of study.
I’m all done in.
I could use another two hours of work, but I can’t do it.
I have written two different reaction responses to material.
I finished a book.
I read another dense chapter in another.
I watched one video of an hour and a half and launched into another four-hour documentary.
The level of discourse is deep and I appreciate all that I am learning and I’m tired.
Pooped.
Done.
I also am getting settled into my life, my home, my new space.
I got furniture assembled today and organized.
I hired someone from Task Rabbit to do the work and honestly, I’m so happy I did.
The woman was really kind and quick and it took her, a skilled person, she’s got great reviews, three hours to put together the furniture I ordered.
I did not have three hours to spare today.
I should probably not be blogging, but you know, the blogging saves my fucking ass.
I need to get all the cobwebs out and I need to process and this is where I do it.
Oh, I know, you’ve had to have noticed, I’m not blogging as much or as regularly as I have in the past, but I am doing it when I need to.
It feels like a need.
Just like writing in the morning feeds me and helps me to get ready for my day, the blogging helps me filter through everything that happened and helps me to not ruminate too much on what the day has brought.
It brought laundry.
My first trip to a laundry mat in years.
Sigh.
I’m not going to lie, its not optimal.
I wish I could use the laundry that is here at the house, but I don’t have access to the garage.
On one hand its fabulous, I don’t have to go through the garage to get to my place anymore.
“I am so jealous of your space!” The woman who came over exclaimed looking at my place.
I had to say, it did look pretty spectacular today, the sun was shining in the windows, my God it gets such beautiful light, today was my first time being in the space most of the day, so I got to really see how much light came in.
So much.
I was reluctant to leave today.
But I knew I had to.
I had to do laundry and I did it and yeah, it wasn’t super fun and I feel like the laundry mat rips you the fuck off with the cost of drying and dryers that don’t really dry, but it is what it is and I did study the entire time I was there, which set the stage for the writing that I did for my classes today.
I still have to do a response in one of my classes, I did two out of three today, but I just couldn’t bring myself to do more.
I had to shut down the video I was watching, which I have watched before for my Freudian Analysis class three years ago. I remember being fascinated by it when I watched it then, now I’m just tired from it, it’s a bit dark and like I mentioned, four hours long.
That’s a long time to watch anything about psychoanalysis and I’m a psychotherapist, it’s material I do enjoy, but it’s a heavy-handed version of Freudian analysis and I just got a bit worn down by it.
Anyway.
I am happy to say that as my home becomes more and more realized, that I am resourcing myself by being in the space.
It is warm and sweet and inviting.
It is also pretty and fun and colorful and it smells good.
I like the good smells I do.
I can look anywhere in the space and I will find something beautiful to rest my eyes upon.
I really like it and I like how unconsciously I have found things that fit together in interesting and arresting ways.
I don’t set out to create these patterns, but they are there when I step back and look, colors that blend with each other, complimentary shapes and pleasing ways of things coming together.
I will, as I have mentioned, post pictures soon, but it’s not quite fully realized, I still have to get my dresser and it will get set up next week, yeah, I re-hired the woman who helped out today, especially since next Sunday I will be deep in a ten page paper.
I can’t spare the three hours of assembly the product says it will take to assemble.
I mean.
It’s hella cute and had I the spare time I would totally do it, I have the tools I have put together plenty of things before, but this is an active act of self-care to delegate this out.
I have to focus on that paper and I have some ideas percolating, so hopefully it won’t break me.
It’s going to be a big week as I end my time with Liberation Institute and say goodbye to some clients and to the group I have been working with the last year and a half.
I also have to get the rest of my things together for Grateful Heart.
Like now.
I’ll be sitting with a friend from school to design my website on Wednesday and I will be getting a phone number and setting up a Square Reader.
I need to research that too, find out how long it will take for me to get the reader, etc.
Jesus.
I just did it.
Now my brain is officially fried.
I just set up and ordered my Square reader.
I will get it sent to me in the mail and hopefully it will arrive, it should, by the time I have my first client who will be using a credit card.
This is happening.
I think I have done just about all that I can today.
I have to call it a day.
Or a night.
I’m cooked.
Time to make a cup of tea and wind down, get some sleep and leap into what is going to be one hell of a busy week.
Seriously.