Flat Friday

Those days, we all get them, when you just don’t have any oomph.  There’s plenty to be getting on with, but your brain is woolly and you can’t focus on anything.  You’re worrying too much about a seemingly unsolvable problem.  All options seem like too much effort. 

When I worked for an employer I had days like this too.  I would spend the day shuffling papers around meaninglessly, or tidy my desk, or spend the day wasting time making cups of tea for colleagues, or surreptitiously and unproductively surfing the internet.  (Don’t tell me you don’t have days like that too.)  So I’m just as likely to have them working for myself. 

Days like these  actually happen less often now I’m self-employed.  Maybe because I love my job.  Maybe because I’m the one that sets the pace and the workload.  Maybe because I’ve got better at motivating myself.  But there I was on Friday, listless and fed up and not knowing what to do. 

I’ve learnt that there really isn’t much point in trying to do anything substantial, because every task I do I’m likely to mess up.  Taking the afternoon off will mean I have to work over the weekend to catch up,  but that’s ok.  So here goes:  turn off the computer, down tools, shut the door…….

Here’s what I did instead !

Spotted a Sempervivum (House Leek) in flower in the garden.  IN FLOWER !  I’ve grown Sempervivums practically all my life, and I’ve never seen one in flower.  How can this be ! 

Made three loaves of bread – all different.  OK, so I do this twice a week, but it's still very satisfying.

Cooked up a batch of spinach – cheap in Leeds Market, needed using before it went off.  Was mesmerised by the sizzling !

Ate comfort food, read recipe books and watched crime drama on cable TV (yes, I confess, this is a bit of an addiction with me.  The comfort food AND the crime drama !  

OK, so no bags got made, no ranges got designed, no websites got tweeked, no photographs were taken, nor books updated.  But batteries were recharged and furrowed brows were smoothed.  All in all, not a bad way to spend an afternoon.