Woke up this morning late--8:45. I think that's because I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't sleep so I did a little reading of my most recent kindle purchase: Joyce Carol Oates' A Widow's Story. (Great book)
So my phone wakes me up and it's my brother--the one who always calls me relentlessly when drinking. He complained that I didn't answer his call last night. I texted him that I'll call him later after I have a cup of coffee
The first email I saw was a note from one of my market researcher colleagues who hired me to do about 5-6 projects this year. She sent me a schedule to approve last night at 9:47 and her email this morning (8:29) was coy--"I was having trouble with my email last night--did you get my email about the schedule?" suggesting that maybe between 10PM on a Sunday night and 8:30AM on a Monday morning if I hadn't gotten back to her something must be wrong.
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I'm still shepherding DH though his health issues.
The other day he asked some people we met recently to dinner that night at our house without asking me first.
I pick up my son (who doesn't have a car) in Burlington to bring him back to G.I. twice a week.
My son in NJ calls me to remind me to pay this floor guy and that paint guy (he is overseeing work we agreed to do when he moved in).
My DD is putting an offer on a house and is asking for help uploading student loan records that I pay
I have the most active work year I've ever had, so that means I have 5 other clients breathing down my neck for things I'm working on.
I know that "there are no victims, only volunteers" and I've been a happy "volunteer" for this stuff all along, but suddenly I'm feeling an internal need to step away for a while--to either a physical retreat or to a wall of "no's" for a while (I can't really do that with my work, unfortunately).
How do you handle it when you feel the expectations and demands on your life get a little weighty?