what a difference in a year
Jun. 29th, 2010 11:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
figmentA year ago, I was packing a truck, and then having a delightful drive across country with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
azure_armand and his dad and Oblivious.
Somehow, in that year, we successfully moved, got married, bought a place, survived our first winter back in Minnesota, and I got my dream job. We got involved in local creative things that make us happy. Not everything is perfect --azure_armand could still use a job, for example -- but many things are good. I feel like we accomplished far more than it seemed reasonable to hope.
...
I started writing this entry to vent about stress, about how I take on too much and then get overwhelmed and freak out. About how I like to be busy, but the time before CONvergence always seems to descend into a maelstrom of anxiety and high-but-not-high-enough productivity. Last night I was thinking about whether this tendency to overcommitment is a really serious problem, or if I just need to practice saying "No" a little more often.
But then I thought about last year, and how much easier this year is, and how good things are, and it put it all into perspective.
... Huh. I think that's what journaling is supposed to do.
azure_armand and his dad and Oblivious. Somehow, in that year, we successfully moved, got married, bought a place, survived our first winter back in Minnesota, and I got my dream job. We got involved in local creative things that make us happy. Not everything is perfect --
azure_armand could still use a job, for example -- but many things are good. I feel like we accomplished far more than it seemed reasonable to hope....
I started writing this entry to vent about stress, about how I take on too much and then get overwhelmed and freak out. About how I like to be busy, but the time before CONvergence always seems to descend into a maelstrom of anxiety and high-but-not-high-enough productivity. Last night I was thinking about whether this tendency to overcommitment is a really serious problem, or if I just need to practice saying "No" a little more often.
But then I thought about last year, and how much easier this year is, and how good things are, and it put it all into perspective.
... Huh. I think that's what journaling is supposed to do.