White way, fuzzy vision

So in the past week or so a road trip up north to see my Dad, step mom and their dogs has taken shape.  Alison is heading up to Pennsylvania in a couple weeks for a few days so I was going to be on dog sitting duty anyway.  I thought it would be cool if I used that time to do another winter road trip since the dogs had so much fun last time in the snow.

So after clearing the idea with Ali I ran the dates by my dad. He was good with them and was excited by the prospect of my coming up.  I then  secured the time off from work to do it so it is officially in the pipeline.  The trip morphed further when dad emailed me asking what I thought about him doing the drive back with the dogs and I and then catching a plane back north a few days later.  I said that would be cool as long as he was ok with a couple long driving days.

So it’s shaping up that the middle of January will be a pretty busy week or two.  It will be fun to get back out on the road and hopefully play around in some of the white stuff.

Last night I had a typically busy evening that included some body weight work, preparing dinner, working on race stuff and doing some chores.  Before I knew it it was 10 pm.

As I was folding laundry I once again found myself thinking about how different my amount of free time has been since the split than I thought it would be.  I recall thinking I would have copious amounts of spare time since I am pretty efficient at getting things done. I envisioned lazy nights at home where I could game, read, and watch Netflix to my heart’s content.  Well reality has been quite different.

It feels like I am constantly behind the curve, that I am letting things slip.  Just sitting around and relaxing feels like an aberration, since there are so many things to do.  Even with a new release of WoW being out for a few months I have hardly touched it.  My pile of Wired magazines keeps growing larger and larger.  I have trimmed down my Tivo season pass list way down to avoid deleting stuff I don’t have time to watch.

In 2013 I need to try to find a better balance of it all.

Speaking of 2013, I will be off from work until the New Year rolls around.  Between now and then I will try to drop in my much anticipated yearly recap blog entry.  Obviously 2012 has been quite filled with change, easily the toughest year since I started jotting down my thoughts a decade ago.