Recently I took too much on. By too much, I mean, I was drowning in it. I had about one free day normally, and I took on enough extra stuff to cover a full week! Might be slightly crazy.
I started getting worn out and exhausted. I just couldn't cope. Finally I spoke to someone who is like a father to me. His first question for me was: what happened to your boundaries Felicity? You can't let that happen. People will violate your boundaries if you don't enforce them. I sobbed something about it being so hard... and I was trying, but they weren't being respected, and I wasn't being respected either.
I was so discouraged I nearly quit a subject because I couldn't manage it all, and I was as miserable as a little kid with a cold. The spark of life was missing. In fact, it felt plain awful in every way.
It's funny. It was a short conversation, because he didn't have long, but I felt a thousand times lighter afterward. I spent a bit of time in worship, and let the tears and pain that had been held back for weeks go, and the tension and the stress left.
For the first day in several weeks I wasn't exhausted half way through the day.
I even got home and wanted to cook. (The dishes took priority though.)
When I get around to cooking I think it will either be bread, brownies, or hot cross buns. :)
Yesterday evening my easy, yum and healthy dinner was:
Easy Roast Chicken Dinner
1 chicken breast fillet
1 onion
4 chunks of butternut punkin (Washed, unpeeled)
2 carrots chopped in wedges
1/4 section of sweet potato (Peeled)
I poured a little olive oil over them and sprinkled with mixed herbs and garlic.
Covered with alfoil and put in the oven at 180C.
I then went for a walk, etc., and when I got it out the oven about 1.5 hours later it was cooked. (I checked and turned it in-between, and I ended up cutting some of my chunks smaller.
Then I put some water on to boil with broccoli in it, and added some frozen peas and beans for about 5 -7 minutes.
It took almost nil effort and hardly any prep, but I then had a really nice dinner and leftovers for another 2 meals.
As they say, winner, winner, chicken dinner.
