In my past life (read: as an employed), I remember waking up on dark, wet mornings thinking that I would do anything to be able to stay in. To not have to get ready, to just have a day for myself at home, drinking tea, pottering, listening to radio. Just being really.
Guess what? Today is that day.
I woke up this morning, without the alarm, knowing that I could have gone back to sleep if I wanted to. The rain hammered on the windows and it was still dark outside. A calendar with no meetings, no musts. So I decided to give myself a day off.
My new teacup has a busy day as I keep filling it with different flavoured teas. My pottering activities have so far consisted of going through the Christmas presents I have started to buy for my lovely god children, nieces and nephews, getting the Christmas decorations from the basement storage, reading magazines, listening to favourite podcasts. All while the mobile phone stays silent and the emails only drop in occasionally.
As the rain keeps pouring down, the rest of the day will also be spent indoors doing some or all of the following activities:
Does this sound too good to be true? Well, that's why I have to write it down.Guess what? Today is that day.
I woke up this morning, without the alarm, knowing that I could have gone back to sleep if I wanted to. The rain hammered on the windows and it was still dark outside. A calendar with no meetings, no musts. So I decided to give myself a day off.
My new teacup has a busy day as I keep filling it with different flavoured teas. My pottering activities have so far consisted of going through the Christmas presents I have started to buy for my lovely god children, nieces and nephews, getting the Christmas decorations from the basement storage, reading magazines, listening to favourite podcasts. All while the mobile phone stays silent and the emails only drop in occasionally.
As the rain keeps pouring down, the rest of the day will also be spent indoors doing some or all of the following activities:
- Finding new music on Spotify. After I have activated a Spotify account.
- Making chocolate biscuits. Only if I don't have to go outside for any of the ingredients.
- Some washing, cleaning and ironing. Not because I have to, but because it's a treat to be surrounded by that fresh smell and feeling.
- Yoga in front of the fireplace.
Because there will be a day when this is far from reality. There will be a day when I want to be able to remind myself that there was I time when I had the choice. So that I can feel grateful for what I had on days when staying in bed is not an option, when making chocolate biscuits on a weekday would never make it to the list-of-things-to-do-when-having-time-off and when sitting on the couch with magazines and a cup of tea, without anyone or anything demanding my attention, feels like a surreal dream.
Believe me when I say that I'm grateful. Today I think I have drawn the longest straw.
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