Holidays

More and more I find myself sharing with my family why I am not a big fan of holidays. When I was young there was a lot of pressure from my mother around the holidays to plan a big spread, have folk come, etc. She took on more than she could handle regularly so tears and yelling were the norm.  Since then I've done everything I can to lower the stakes for holidays where I have a say.

Downtime

I don't really ever have downtime in the sense of nothing on my to-do list. I do enough committee work that there is always more paperwork and planning that can be done.

But classes have been over for a few weeks and I haven't been goofing off so there is less and less that needs doing. I'm used to running on panic adrenaline 24/7 so it is hard to decompress.

The pandemic is keeping us from traveling for the holidays which helps a bit.