An oddly un-busy period of time

I LOVE to be busy. I enjoy days when I'm running from one thing to the next and end up at home after being gone for 12 or so hours. Falling into bed exhausted feels good to me.

Though I seem to be in a particularly un-busy period of time right now. I work in the mornings, but my afternoons and evenings hold very little structured activity. Something that somewhat unnerves me. I don't like hours and hours of time alone at home.

I've spent a lot of last week reading...finishing 4 novels in a little over a week. Not little books either - each ranging from 350 - 750 pages long. It was fun to disappear into a different little world for hours at a time. A good friend told me that she had done the same thing recently on vacation with her spouse - sort of as a way for her extroverted self to keep in contact with other people on their little getaway...us crazy extroverts! :)

I combated it over the weekend by planning a busy day on Saturday and when faced with an afternoon and evening alone on Sunday I invited myself over to Paul & Kirsten's place. I was there for about 8 hours - it was a saving grace that they were home and open to my just hanging out with them. I talked with them, read my book, played with the kids, talked some more - it was wonderful! I love hanging out at their place. It's chunks of time with them that I most miss during the school year. Being at the Housholders refreshes me and is a who lot of fun too! :)

This week I see the next several days as being pretty wide open again. I'm trying to get household tasks done and to take time to enjoy it - because a month from today my staff returns and it'll be weeks until I have time to just sit and enjoy the quiet - if I can find quiet on a campus with 600 or so residents at that point! :) Even next week things will start to pick up again - my dear friend Rebecca returns from 10 months in England and I'm sure we will spend some significant time together. I just about cant wait - but I will remind myself to savor these days that I do have and to make the most of them so that I can recall the calm in the midst of school beginning.