Planning for Downtime

Today is Easter. Not something that we normally celebrate as a big religious holiday. I grew up celebrating Easter, but as I haven't actually attended church on a regular basis and the fact that I despised people who only went to church on Easter and Christmas as I grew up, I don't go on holidays now unless I'm with family and attend church in a group with family.

Sometimes the godkids and their parents get to come to my house for Easter, but not this year. And I've been petsitting this weekend. It's been great. I love the house I'm staying at, LOVE the dog, and the people are SUPER nice. I've had some time to think about being alone, and I've been with the dog, but no humans, and not nearly as much human contact as I normally have on a day to day basis. 

It's been a good day. I HAVE been a little lonely, but not in a bad way. Just in the way that you'd like someone to talk to and everyone has something to do but you. I could have called people earlier. I might have caught most of my family... but I didn't want to. I wanted to enjoy the quiet and alone time for most of today.  

I should be leaving this part of town in about an hour or so to go back home. It'll be good. I've been by there once today to eat LOL. I have snacks here but decided to eat dinner last night late after thinking I wouldn't and I went walking for over an hour today so I was hungry. I also got a bit of candy today. For myself. I didn't buy my favorite candy as I still can't think about eating a Reese's egg and there's one in my mailbox at work from one of the docs because we'd had a rough day a couple of weeks ago and she knows it's my favorite. 

I'm sure it'll be there when I'm ready for it.

Allen really didn't like any holiday except Halloween. I'm not sure why he disliked all of them, I know he said he hated Christmas because of his time in retail working for BooksAMillion. That is the only one I ever really knew. I think maybe he disliked them because he felt when family was gathered he was being judged, wether it was true or not... and he personally felt that he wasn't being judged well.

I'm not going to dwell on that thought, it was just passing through so I thought I'd mention it.

I was told to be sure and plan some time to be down each holiday or special day. If all the others work out like today, I'll be so far ahead of what I expected!