What a weekend. I am coming to the realization that I don’t hurt and I am not needing weeks of recovery. The reason this is a surprise is that I went out dancing on Friday night. I danced and I danced, on and off for three hours. When I have done this over the last year, I have been dead for the weeks following. Not this time. Yay!

I can’t believe this weekend. It was to be rather light but ended up fully packed. Everything seem to just extend. (And no, I STILL haven’t done my laundry)

I had work done on my legs and feet on Wed that ended up taking the entire night (and that was the first real good nights sleep I have gotten since the heat wave hit before Labor Day weekend). I had work done on my head on Thursday that expanded to take the entire night. Friday night, I followed my insanity and went to New Wave City with fresne. We have fun bopping from dance floor to dance floor. I like having the choice between three different songs at any one time, even if that means you might be missing out on something cool. Later in the evening britgeekgrrl arrived (looking Smashing) with two friends that liked to just stand around (silly people) and Espana was able to pry AlleyCat out of his den and they showed up.

Sat was gaming night, 7th seas. I got there late, around noon, and was still there before half of our players. We started a little late and therefore decided to run a little late. I finally left at 10:15pm. I had a great time, but Damn! it wasn’t suppose to be that long. My past rpg training was gaming for 4-5 hour games with the first hour being social time. We were running in character, with a very short break for dinner, for something like 8 hours. I am very proud of myself, I only got cranky a few times over the evening and I had brought enough food. Considering this is the only game I am in and I haven’t really roleplayed regularly since the late 80′s, I think I am a little rusty. I don’t even want to think of what I would need to do to get back in shape. This is what I get for being in a game with some serious gamers. I am really enjoying it and will just have to write game days off as unavailable for anything else. Sat goes by and still no laundry.

Sunday was scheduled to be hanging with a couple of friends that I have had trouble scheduling time with. But that is opening weekend for Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. I have to go see that with fresne (and capricious_k but she is off having fun in Chicago at the Browncoat Ball). Can I make it work to do both? Why yes I can. And since I am doing this, hey jadecat9, you wanna go? And so it starts. We ended up with 8 people for the movie and it was delightful to make connections between people that didn’t really know each other but are all interested in the same stuff. We saw, and really enjoyed, the movie (want another one please) and went to Chevys to sit and chat afterwards. Much food later, we went our separate ways. I got a chance to hang with many friends and then with the ones that I have been out of touch with. The day started at 10am and ended around 9pm. Once again, no laundry.

And to think, I use to go at this speed all the time. *shiver*

I had a good weekend. But very wearing. I was so busy I forgot International Talk Like a Pirate Day and to call to see if I had to show up for Jury duty this morning. I am doing the “refuse to get up in the morning until after I am suppose to be somewhere” thing again. My apartment is a sty and I can’t believe the clean-up urge hasn’t kicked in. Laundry has been on the list of things to do for over 6 weeks (good thing I have a lot of clothes). All of these are signs to me that I am burning my candles at too many ends. As much as I want to keep going and take advantage of the wonderful opportunities that are all over and see all the cool people in my life, I really need to carve more time for myself. I went from doing nothing on weeknights to having every weeknight booked. What I am going to try to do is: be satisfied with what I have already scheduled (Oct is rather full already); and really careful on what else I add to that schedule; and make dedicated time for myself (tonight is one such night that will get absorbed by Laundry!) We will see how long that lasts. Ha!