You can predict holidays (and vacations) in my life by my health: if I'm about to start a few days or a week off, I'm sneezing and coughing or - as in the case of the last two days - I have not been able to successfully eat more than two pieces of dry toast.
Why? Could it have to do with the fact that I started every morning early and then worked several nights later than usual, including Thursday when I later woke up to a rumbling tummy, so that I could be really caught up to relax during my break?
Will I ever learn to simply work when I work and stop when I go on holiday and NOT try to run across marathon finishing lines as if they were 100 meter sprints?
I've changed a lot of things in my life, but I still sit inside on one of the first lovely early sunny days of Spring, the first day of a week off of work. OK, the view out my window looks good and I'm sleeping a lot, which will help me make the most of later days. That's the positive view.
But really, it's time now to admit I need to break this old habit - and give the grippe less chance to get a grip on me.
The first thing I will do? Put up reminders that life is a marathon. That change starts with this blog!
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