August Break 2015 - Still catching up and problems with Blogger.

I've been having some trouble posting my photographs to blogger, hence not having been able to pop in and blog as much as I would have liked. It's been so frustrating that I am now at the point of finding a new home for my blog. This has been something I've been thinking about for a while now, and it seems as if blogger has made my mind up for me!

However that all takes time. One of the reasons that not being able to post quickly and easily to blogger over the past few weeks is that I have very little time to mess around these days. I want to be able to post quickly and not have to spend ages making the page or photograpshs, visually pleasing - I just want to be able to click and ping it's all done for me. I just don't have time to mess around for hours while my photographs and text move around the page by themselves! I was obviously doing something wrong when uploading my photos from other devices but hadn't got time to work out what was going on. I added my last post after a very frustrating few days trying to sort it out - but was conscious that it was not how I would have wanted it to look.

I've some time coming up soon, a week at home where I can just please myself.....well in theory that's how it goes.....but the house is looking pretty awful after these last few months of working long hours, and the long working hours just don't seem to be enough to complete all that is required for me to feel like I'm doing an ok job at work! So time will soon be eaten up on my week off, spending time with family and friends is also a priority........and time with me(and my blog or journal or paintbrush)....well that might just not happen. I wonder when I became so disorganised? I just don't seem to have enough energy to get everything ticking along nicely...playing catch up is my middle name.

Maybe it's time to look at this differently? Let me think on that for a while. If you have any thoughts readers? I'm asking myself that old question about what I am saying yes to.

So here are some more August Break photographs. I'm not even sure what day it is right now so please excuse the poor quality of some of them. If I try to mess around with them they just won't get posted! 

Day 9 - Earth

Day 10 - Talisman 

Day 11 - Edge

Day 12 - Yellow

Day 13  - Last Year

Day 14 - Favourite Smell

I am participating in the August Break 2015 and enjoying the chance to take stock of my days. Why not think about joining in too?  Head over to Susannah's website  for more details.

 

August Break Week One - Playing Catch Up Already!

Day 4 - Numbers

Day 5 - Citrus

Day 7 - Notebook

Day 8 - Smooth

SKIN: Day Three - August Break 2015.

SKIN

I spent the day miles away from you, as is the way life seems to go once you reach adulthood. Off we go into the world each day, even on those days that we feel we just want to cling on tightly to our loved ones. We wave a cheerful goodbye and spend our waking hours "making a living." 

Today was an important day for you, but as usual I hardly gave you a second thought once I was embroiled in the day to day. Other more pressing matters filled my mind. 

Over the years, I have forgotten so many important things each working day......before arriving home and remembering again. Groaning when I realise I didn't make that phone call to the doctor or that I forgot to deliver that birthday card.....yet again! 

Weeks later that card is still in my handbag.

When I came home you were hoovering the stairs, and when I glanced into the kitchen I was comforted to see that my tea was cooking, as it usually is. You've not forgotten me or any other important things, though you are starting a new chapter. 

You told me all about your day, all of your hopes and fears lying close to the surface, under your brave face.

I was so glad to be home. To know you haven't changed. 

Another Monday completed......ticked off....crossed off. The days speeding past so quickly that sometimes I forget to breathe......I forget who I am.....what I love......

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I am participating in the August Break 2015 and enjoying the chance to take stock of my days. Why not think about joining in too?  Head over to Susannah's website  for more details.

AIR - Day two August Break 2015

 

Click on full screen for a slightly blurry view of the Lavender blowing in the breeze. You can hear my windchime and you might spot one of the cats in the background.

I am participating in the August Break 2015 and enjoying the chance to take stock of my days. Why not think about joining in too?  Head over to Susannah's website  for more details.

Breakfast in the car. Day one - Augustbreak2015

 

Yay! It's August Break time again.

Love this event each summer, and this year it's a chance to reconnect with my blog and to take stock of the days.

Starting this year with a cheat. This photo was not taken today, but illustrates how on many of my work days I continue my breakfast in the car with a skinny latte. A sort of extended breakfast that helps on those days when it feels difficult finding the motivation.

Day One - Breakfast

Not so many of these mornings, these days I'm glad to say but some days I'm sooooo tired. It's a long commute to my new workplace and some days it feels hard enough just getting myself out of bed.

So I don't buy a coffee every day but realise that with better planning I could save my pennies for something more worthwhile.

Old habits die hard however!

My life seems to be tied into a certain way of being linked to my relationship with the day job.

Even as my work changes, this certain way of being stays with me, however much I try to change things!

I find myself putting my all into my work leaving little time for self-care and "flying by the seat of my pants" into my next challenge....coffee in one hand and a laptop or notepad in the other. So many miles on the clock and still not arriving.

This time however I think maybe I might be as close as it gets to arriving. Maybe. Hopefully.

All depending on how well I can balance. Time to stop juggling and simply surviving.

Time to begin thriving. August 2015 is the time to get my balance on.