By and large – and a lot like many people – I absolutely love my life.<\/p>\n
I wake up every morning (which I reckon is a pretty good start to the day) and I just feel really good.<\/p>\n
Yes, I’m a morning person.<\/p>\n
Yes, my physical and metal energies are much more focussed on the early AM than the late PM.<\/p>\n
Yes, I’m quite capable of being in an *absurdly* good mood from the minute I’ve finished with the showering, shaving, teething.<\/p>\n
And by and large that’s pretty normal behaviour.<\/p>\n
I’ve never been one of those ‘head down, trudging through life’ types.<\/p>\n
I love life.<\/p>\n
I love my life.<\/p>\n
I revel in every single day.<\/p>\n
The opportunities.<\/p>\n
The challenges.<\/p>\n
The getting things done.<\/p>\n
I love that bit most of all.<\/p>\n
Getting things done.<\/p>\n
But.<\/p>\n
It’s been one of those Since Christmas I have put in so many hours at work.<\/p>\n Stupid hours.<\/p>\n Not just ‘time at the desk’ hours.<\/p>\n Working on work things in my own time.<\/p>\n And then there are the things of my own that I have also been doing, in my own time.<\/p>\n I’m on a real roll.<\/p>\n I can’t slow down.<\/p>\n But it’s catching up on me.<\/p>\n I finished reading the Linux Bible last night.<\/p>\n I consider this to be the best industry-text I’ve ever read; it’s written in such a fluid, joined-up style.<\/p>\n Anyway.<\/p>\n I was so excited by what I’d read, and what I’m going to use that knowledge for, that I flipped straight over to YouTube to watch people doing what I’ve just finished reading about.<\/p>\n It was almost 1am when I eventually slipped the light off.<\/p>\n I slept like a log, and woke up without any shift from normal.<\/p>\n I had an early morning meeting at work, then went in to my office just after 8am and logged on.<\/p>\n Worked until 5.30pm.<\/p>\n Came back to the flat; cooked, washed up, watched an hour-long documentary on iPlayer.<\/p>\n Geeked a bit with video stuff, for a while.<\/p>\n It’s fast approaching 8.30pm and I’m absolutely wasted.<\/p>\n Friday tomorrow; another early meeting, another 8.15 log-on afterwards.<\/p>\n Another day.<\/p>\n Then drive to Rugby.<\/p>\n Unwind. Relax. Sleep.<\/p>\n Saturday I’d like to take the bikes out for a run around the town.<\/p>\n I’d like to.<\/p>\n But you know.<\/p>\n Weather.<\/p>\n Things.<\/p>\n Sunday I’ll leave Rugby nice and early and drive back down to Bristol because yes…<\/p>\n I’m working.<\/p>\n After work I’m going to drive up to Nottingham.<\/p>\n I might see if I can put the things in the thing (yeah, super-cryptic, soz).<\/p>\n No big deal if I can’t, though.<\/p>\n Early Monday morning I’ll leave Nottingham and drive back to Bristol.<\/p>\n And do another five-day week.<\/p>\n And do four long evenings, back at the flat.<\/p>\n Now here’s the thing.<\/p>\n I’m so not complaining about any of this.<\/p>\n I *love* being this busy.<\/p>\n I *love* having all these things to do.<\/p>\n I *love* getting so much done – and I am, I really am.<\/p>\n But every now and then I just wish I could stop.<\/p>\n Pause.<\/p>\n Take a break.<\/p>\n Rest.<\/p>\n Gather my wits.<\/p>\n And then get straight back in to it again.<\/p>\n Because I love it.<\/p>\n But am I the only one?<\/p>\n I wouldn’t describe myself as ‘driven’, but I like to keep busy.<\/p>\n Don’t you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By and large – and a lot like many people – I absolutely love my life. I wake up every morning (which I reckon is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}days<\/del> weeks<\/del> months<\/del> years, so far.<\/p>\n