Vacation Brain

 

Whoops. Guess who totally forgot she was supposed to post yesterday? I blame vacation brain.

Lucky, lucky KD Sarge is in Sedona, Arizona this week. It’s been glorious. I’ve climbed rocks and gotten sunburned and seen the Grand Canyon and fallen into adventure (otherwise known as Oak Creek. Fortunately none of my falling was anywhere near the Grand Canyon. That is a looooong way down!)

I’ve learned something this vacation. I’ve learned that I need to take more vacations.

Okay, that may seem like a no-brainer, not even a vacation brain thing. But it matters. I like to be working on something. I rarely watch TV, only see movies I really care about, don’t even ask how my “read twenty-five books in 2015 challenge” is going…I’m busy learning Spanish, taking college classes, writing, editing, building a website, raising a kid, working full time.

That kind of workaholic attitude may seem like a good thing, but in reality I am often to be found screwing around. I mean to write, I just check Tumblr first. I’m going to study my Spanish—just as soon as I check out the latest cat memes. I’m going to learn photography—first let me read all the reviews on this camera I’m not going to buy.

Sometimes I think it’s a miracle I get anything done at all. And this past week, when I wasn’t busily distracting myself from work I should have been doing, I had time to think about that. Why do I screw around so much, not-doing the things that I committed to do because I wanted to do them?

Well, probably because everyone needs breaks. We’re human. We can’t focus all the time, we can’t even focus on the same thing most of the time. The more we can focus, the more we can excel, absolutely. But even Bruce Lee took time out to get married.

Yeah, I don’t know if I’m even making sense. Vacation brain, you know. But I’m thinking that if I took real, official, don’t-even-think-about-working breaks more often, that I would get more done in the time I’m supposed to be working. That makes sense, right?

Anyway, I’m going to try it. I’ll try to lay out work-time and not-work-time and see how things go. In the meantime, please enjoy this badly-composed phone-pic of me not-falling in the Grand Canyon. Not-falling physically, anyway. I definitely fell in love.

One Comment:

  1. I agree wholeheartedly about taking breaks from everything. I think the human brain requires this.

    Awesome pic!

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