Woo Hoo, a short work week last week ...

... No work last Monday as it was a Bank Holiday and no work on Friday as I took the day off, fantastic!! Seriously, it should be illegal to work more than three days a week, LOL.

I have been struggling to juggle lately, work against an intense need to socialise more, wanting to spend time with new friends against needing to spend time with old ones, wanting to chill out and relax knowing I need to go to the gym, seriously, I could go on about this for days...

Without a doubt work is losing out and I can't deny that this causes me a conflict as for far too many years now work has had ALL of my attention. I have never had a 9-5 job and when I had the chance to start my own business I did it because I wanted to create some balance in my life. Things didn't work out in the way I initially envisioned they would as I had (and still have) very intense bouts of work but I had been able to counterbalance that by taking a month or three off once one contract finished and before the next started so I was OK with the situation.

However, I have now reached a point where I don't want to keep working in this way, though I do like the long breaks I don't want to have to keep doing the ridiculously long hours and I certainly want to stop feeling guilty about taking time out to do the nice things in life, like hanging out with friends, or wiling away the hours reading a book (maybe even just a magazine) or shopping (even grocery shopping), during hours when by rights I shouldn't be working.

Now if I could just figure out how to do that I would be one very happy lady...