After an intense last decade, and an especially insane last year, I have had an opportunity to just stop. The holiday hustle is over, school doesn't resume til the 20th, and I have removed myself from the bustle of the world in my little wilderness nest for a bit of a reprieve.
It's nice.
Heck, it's beyond nice, I've been hustling and dealing with so many life curveballs for so long that I had forgotten how to just be. Staying up here helps, as I don't have to worry about what or who is going to pop in the door, I can wholly and truly relax.
As the hubs is off ranch to tend to his youth shooting sports programs this weekend, I get the whole ranch to myself. Well, Cora the Corg and Jojo the Void are with me, and all the ranch wildlife, but still, I am the only human about for miles, and it's just so very peaceful. I decided to do something completely out of character and just do whatever the heck I wanted to.
So I built me a delectable stuffed crust pizza, brushed it with garlic butter, and enjoyed an indulgent dinner. I played games on my new gaming computer with a bunch of my friends, engaged in some very silly banter, learned all about the realm of Palworld, watched a bit of the extended edition of LOTR, a film I will probably revisit tonight, and just overall drifted through being without a bazillion to-dos to tend to.
I did work a bit yesterday, I mean I live on a ranch, and I always have things I can do, but at about 3pm I shut off responsible Kat and was just meander and have fun Kat for the rest of the day, and have continued that into today.
It's delightful.
At this juncture of my life (kids raised and life pretty squared away), it's time for me to start being a bit more kinder to myself. Instead of just smelling the daisies, I just want to take in the pixels, and by that I mean do some of the things I have always wanted to do yet haven't allowed myself to do because I had so many responsibilities to tend to.
This also includes a lot of no saying, taking better care of my carcass, and overall just living a bit more thoughtful and slower.
I have a lot of hope for this year.
Time to paint my toenails!
And as most of the time, all of the images in this post were posted on the author's probably always present and not at all capable of being overstressed iPhone.
