Finishing 5767 with insanity...
Last year, I really enjoyed Elul as a reflective time. It felt like I was able to think about the year, what had happened, what hadn't happened, and how to make amends and prepare for the next year. Sure, there was a primary fight, but I was able to see a lot of things clearly. I was able to see that it was the right time to propose to Knucklehead. to think about how to really end the constant lateral moves that my organizing career has become.
And to look back on that, and contrast it with the next two months is astounding.
Actually, if you go back two full months from the day I get married, the following has happened/must happen/will happen:
1) Attending two different weddings
2) Switching jobs
a) leaving one
b) starting the other two weeks before I officially leave the first
3) Find a new apartment
4) Moving in
5) Starting Grad School
6) Bachelor Party
7) Planning my wedding.
Now, if you add to that helping one friend out of a rough spot in a fairly intense way, and an unforseen problem with another close friend to all that...
well, i may have had lame excuses for not blogging in the past. Now, it's not that I don't have anything to say. it's that I have no time to say it.
I love all this. But it's not without a lot of balancing and feeling fragile.
And to look back on that, and contrast it with the next two months is astounding.
Actually, if you go back two full months from the day I get married, the following has happened/must happen/will happen:
1) Attending two different weddings
2) Switching jobs
a) leaving one
b) starting the other two weeks before I officially leave the first
3) Find a new apartment
4) Moving in
5) Starting Grad School
6) Bachelor Party
7) Planning my wedding.
Now, if you add to that helping one friend out of a rough spot in a fairly intense way, and an unforseen problem with another close friend to all that...
well, i may have had lame excuses for not blogging in the past. Now, it's not that I don't have anything to say. it's that I have no time to say it.
I love all this. But it's not without a lot of balancing and feeling fragile.
Labels: life cycle, stress, transitions, wedding