My Cup is Empty

This girl is running on empty today. If someone looked in my gratitude journal they would notice how often I end with `My cup runneth over` and I promise you that this is how I feel many times during the week. I am not unappreciative of my life and my world. This past week however has been one tough one and it is all related to this unremitting weather.

I can battle a lot of things but nature sure isn`t one of them. Nature is cruel but it is true, that`s what my father used to say.

I was planning this article earlier this morning and it segued into how much a woman takes on her shoulders in the course of her life. Our nature is to be nurturers of the world but in the twentieth century woman`s world took on an additional aspect by entering into the work force on a grand scale. This isn`t a history lesson so I won`t get into all of that but in the last four decades it is a given that a woman will go out and work even after she has children. In addition her education has led woman into the professional world and a practical mind questions `why would I go to university and get a degree and then not use it`?

Women today are between a rock and a hard place. They are juggling so many balls in the air and they are afraid to let any one of them fall. That’s how I have been feeling all week since I’ve been taking on a lot of things at home. I am assisting in organizing our Class of ’71 portion of our high school reunion this May, I am preparing to launch my second blog which date has been accelerated due to the calling of the federal election (more on that later), I’m facilitating a fashionista day for my book club next weekend and this bloody snow will not stop! Enough already. I cannot handle, in advance warnings, 3 days of steady snow in the middle of March. Are you serious David Spence? And now we have an extra 3 days of it. I am ready to put a fork in my eye.

At work I have also had it very busy with our team building session (which went off beautifully by the way), planning meetings in the middle of our building move and people running off for vacations during the spring break. Not to mention my personal agenda at work which ended up getting postponed again. Yes, it has been a trying week and then my brother Eirk came in and suggested that I needed to work on being more efficient and active at home because I was in danger for getting Alzheimer’s. Just what I needed to hear.

So yes, my cup is empty this morning. I am going to take a long hot bath, wash my hair and imagine Bette Davis handling her life. Look out book club, you may have Baby Jane knocking on the door this afternoon!