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I’m feeling kind of …… blah today.  Not sad or depressed or grumpy just blah.  I don’t even know how to explain it because there really isn’t any emotion to go along with ‘blah’.

One of my clients called me this morning and we chit chatted about business and we were talking about how she noticed that last week I was pulling some long shifts into the wee hours of the morning (email has to have the time on there doesn’t it? LOL) and I told her yes and for the most part I felt like I was spinning my wheels because all the work I was doing didn’t end up to be a lot of ‘billable’ hours. 

We talked about how sometimes I feel like I’ve let my business run me instead of me running it.  And one of the things I’m working on is setting boundaries and changing things and learning that I’m boss - I make the decisions not someone else. 

So in the process of lack of sleep last week I’m feeling a bit run down this week, a little cold (stuffy nose, cough & some chest congestion) seems to be trying to take over my body and I’m doing my best to fight it. 

So my client this morning tells me I’m giving you permission to email your clients and tell them I’m (me) taking the rest of the day off for a break so that I can be efficient for them.  (I don’t remember her exact words but those were the jist of them).

So after we got off the phone (and I really love that my clients aren’t just business people that we also have built friendships) I sat here laughing.  I mean how funny that one of my clients was telling me she was giving me permission to take the rest of the day off - too funny.

But you know what?  I followed her advice.  I did take the rest of the day off (I’m only on right now because I have to post every single day for Nell’s 30 day blog challenge which is going on day 2 now and you really should join if you haven’t!).  Caleb and I spent some mommy & son time together - not doing anything spectacular, watched some TV and then he let me take a nap. 

I do feel rested even though an hour nap didn’t seem to be long enough. LOL. But for some reason I’m still just feeling blah. 

I’m sure this to shall pass.

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Yeah I know ya all were thinking what? She’s dating, when did that happen. Well no not exactly dating but I did make a date with the main man in my life - Caleb.

He tells me that I shouldn’t call it a date because mommies and sons don’t go out on dates, but I tell him sure they do! We went to La Senorita, my fave place to eat out and I think its kind of growing on Caleb too

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Ok so one of the coolest things about being my own boss is that if I want to take a couple days off for something I have the freedom to do it.  I had a church picnic scheduled for this past Saturday (28th) but I had a really crazy week last week with being up all hours of the morning every single night. 

I was riding with a couple friends to the picnic, about 1 - 1 1/2 hours away, and we were leaving at 9am.  Ok no big deal, 9am is that early right?  Well when you don’t go to bed until 5:15am the night before - it’s very early!  I had some projects that needed to be finished plus some that I hadn’t even started on that needed to be done by Monday morning. 

I called my friend at 8:30am telling her I wasn’t going, or at least that was my plan.  The conversation in my head was simple, Trisha, this is Tishia and I was just calling to let you know I’m not going to the picnic because I only got a couple hours sleep and I have alot more work to do.  and in my head Trisha said, oh ok, have a good day. 

Hmmm I should of known it wasn’t really going to play out like that! This was the real conversation:

Me:  “Hi Trisha it’s Tishia”
Trisha: “Hi Tishia are you ready to go already?”
Me: (laughing) “umm no actually I’m not going”
Trisha: “What?  ”What do you mean you aren’t going? You can’t just not go”.
Tishia: “Well sure I can, I’m tired, I have work to do, I’m kind of grumpy and I just want to go back to sleep and sleep the whole day”.
Trisha: ”You know you would be missing out.  And besides you don’t want to waste your day sleeping and you can do work tonight when you get home and not only that but you know you want to see (insert the person of my interest).”
Tishia: (laughing and smiling now) “Ok you’re right.  I’ll sleep on the way up and back and work tonight.”
Trisha:  “Besides did you really think I was going to let you get out of this, I mean after all you did already make a big bowl of macaroni salad” (and she was laughing this evil ha ha laugh because she knew I wouldn’t waste it)  

So that’s how I ended up going and ended up getting myself into a predicament of pulling an allnighter last night (Sunday) - I mean a literal all nighter! I didn’t go to bed until 9:20am this morning. 

I was so tired Saturday night by the time I got home that I took 2 Tylenol pm’s and was in pajamas and in bed with my air conditioner running at 7:30pm and didn’t get up until 11:10am Sunday morning (I missed my alarm clock going off, I missed church even!). I couldn’t believe I actually slept that long! But even more so I couldn’t believe I was still tired.  I made it from my bed to my couch where I slept all of Sunday afternoon away!

Then my brother & his fiance invited Caleb and I over but we didn’t leave here until like 8:30pm.  We got home about 10:30pm and I knew I was in trouble…..LOL.  I had a long night ahead of me with work projects due first thing Monday morning (sigh). 

So that’s why I ended up pulling an all nighter last night and not going to bed until 9:20am this morning.  And it’s only 11:47am so I didn’t even get 2 hours sleep!

And the moral of this story?

If you’re gonna play, you’re gonna pay (you don’t usually think of work when you hear this saying but it fits perfectly into what I’m feeling).

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My friend Nell from Casual Friday Everyday is hosting a blog challenge, and I know we all like challenges;-)  So hop on over to Nell’s blog to find out about the blogging challenge.

This will force me to post every single day for the next 30 days and hopefully by then I’ll have a routine that I’m used to and it will just be natural to keep posting every day.  (I think I read somewhere that it takes your body like 21 days to get used to something before it just seems ‘natural’ to you - something like that anyways). 

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