Sunday night, and it's back to work for me tomorrow, after a week's leave. I'd made a list of things I wanted to do, and I can proudly say I achieved quite a few: I slept until I woke up naturally every day (for 9 days, incl. the two weekends) and I spent a lot of chill and fun time with my daughter; we watched a lot of soccer on tv and we also went to see the movie Eclipse - my daughter is a huge fan and had been counting the days to the release of the latest in the Twilight series. We went to the shops a few times, and also spent a lot of time with my mom, who lives on the premises.
I did a lot of laundry (whenever the sun shone, which was almost every day!), and tried to practise my guitar whenever I could.
What I did for myself was go to my guitar lesson and have a meeting to discuss resuming the recording of my original songs. I also did a bit of journalling, and went onto Facebook every day.
There were some low moments during the week, but I'll mention only one: despite having had Saturday night's gig confirmed on Friday, I got a call at 6:10pm on Saturday, when I was minutes away from the restaurant, to say it had been cancelled again. On a gig day, I start getting ready at 4:30pm, because I have to do a lot in preparation, and I like to do it without feeling rushed or stressed. It's about a 20-minute drive to the restaurant, depending on the traffic. Finding a parking bay can be challenging, so I often park temporarily, offload the equipment and then find a bay for the evening. Then we set up and do a sound check, and are usually ready about 10 minutes before we're due to start. The point is, doing a gig from 7 - 10pm is not something that takes up three hours of one's time, so having the gig cancelled that late left both of us feeling very bad. Right now, I doubt the gig will resume this Saturday, as it's the runners-up soccer match. Maybe the following weekend. Who knows?
All-in-all, it was a good week. I feel rested and ready to go back and face the challenges at work.
And life goes on.
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