2009: The Year of the Burnout

Happy New Year faithful readers! I know I hardly ever blog but I am really trying to get my motivation going -- knitting-wise, work-wise and life-wise.

2009 was a great year for me in many ways, but was also a very difficult and challenging year as well. I've been really throwing myself into my job and despite treating myself to a couple of decent-length vacations, I continue to feel burnt out and desperately short on motivation in all aspects of my life. The past few weeks have been a fog of laziness and lack of emotion on my part, and I am facing an epic amount of work upon my return on Monday after my lazy break.

So naturally I'm avoiding facing the work situation by focusing on cleaning my home. At least I may get a somewhat tidier and less cluttered condo out of all this! Part of this decluttering has included digging through baskets of UFO's and FO's that just needed frogging. Since I've decided that 2010 will be a "no yarn-buying year*" I'm trying to make the most of the fibre I already have in my house, so if a FO isn't something I like enough to use or that would make a good gift for someone, it is frog city baby.

No resolutions, other than my usual desire to work out more, eat better, spend more time with friends, be better at my job, waste less free time on my computer, spend less money, keep my house cleaner, start fewer projects and finish more projects, and oh yeah -- blog more. But, I pretty much aspire to all these things all the time so they're hardly resolutions. So I guess I'm going into 2010 just aspiring to have more of the good (there was lots of good in 2009) and less of the bad, which is too much work and not enough time to do it ;)

*With one exception: if Jacquie and I succeed in our plan to meet for a visit to Rhinebeck / NY City next October all bets are off!