Anxiety - Sometimes its a Good Thing(tm)
So this weekend was pretty much my typical weekend. Saturday bears_place mom came to visit and to drag her shopping. Bear hates shopping. I was left to my own devices and pretty much puttered the day away. The morning was spent cleaning (in prep for her Mom coming over) and after that I played a bit more of Dark Crusade and lost again. *sigh* That brought me to when Bear and Mom came back so we talked for a bit until Bobbi (Bear's Mom) had to head home.
After that there was more puttering and I could feel the anxiety building. See I had meant to do some work while Bear was out and about as I had a meeting to prep for on Monday (which has now been rescheduled). I knew that this was going to take me a couple of hours to do and I hadn't a chance to work on it during the week so I was going to do it on Saturday (salary its a double-edged sword), but I blew it off. Which mostly tanked my Saturday because while I had decided not to do it part of my brain was screaming "SLACKER! GO DO IT!".
I went in early on Sunday (7am) to work on it and to my surprise I felt like I knew what I was doing and while it did take a while (4 hours) it was shorter than I was expecting (6 hours were budgeted). So I was able to do some other things to get a jump on Monday and then get to my DnD game early.
So the lesson I learned from this is that I should have not been a slacker and gone in on Saturday while Bear was out (which was my orginal plan) then I wouldn't have had the stress that I created for myself later.
Now the only trick is remembering that for the next time...
After that there was more puttering and I could feel the anxiety building. See I had meant to do some work while Bear was out and about as I had a meeting to prep for on Monday (which has now been rescheduled). I knew that this was going to take me a couple of hours to do and I hadn't a chance to work on it during the week so I was going to do it on Saturday (salary its a double-edged sword), but I blew it off. Which mostly tanked my Saturday because while I had decided not to do it part of my brain was screaming "SLACKER! GO DO IT!".
I went in early on Sunday (7am) to work on it and to my surprise I felt like I knew what I was doing and while it did take a while (4 hours) it was shorter than I was expecting (6 hours were budgeted). So I was able to do some other things to get a jump on Monday and then get to my DnD game early.
So the lesson I learned from this is that I should have not been a slacker and gone in on Saturday while Bear was out (which was my orginal plan) then I wouldn't have had the stress that I created for myself later.
Now the only trick is remembering that for the next time...