I feel like CeCe right now, yea get it girl. Because after a whirlwind of a move (like literally nothing else could've gone wrong) we are finally some sort of settled! I say some sort due to the fact that we are in a temporary rental with limited furniture & 1/2 our shit in storage. But hey it beats the hotel room with 2 dogs....right?!?!? We got internet this week and you wouldn't believe how much that makes you feel like a person again. But with 2 new cars, a new job & a new house under contract things are looking up for the Feehan's! We are loving our new town here in Milford, CT so hello, Connecticut, because the Feehan's are here to stay (because honestly I'll be damned if I'm doing a move like that again anytime soon!)
So my apologies for my lack of quirky posts in the past few months, but now I am back in the game! And our first topic today is ......drum rollllllll......ROUTINE.
God how I miss having a routine! But funny how you get burnt out when you've been on a routine too long right? Ugh such a catch 22. During this entire moving process, it felt like every minute of every day was crammed with stuff & the "to do" list was never-ending. Things just kept popping up. Talk about anxiety. I couldn't find a way to get myself in any sort of organization, which obviously made me nutso. I wish I could sit here and preach to you all about how I embraced it and became more flexible and blah blah blah, but I can't. I like a routine, no matter how often I get burnt out routine is what keeps me structured & attached to my healthy lifestyle. Creature of habit = me.
However, there are those of us who hate routine....enter my husband. Flying by the seat of his pants is his forte. And some people just work like this, more power to you. However, in all my interactions with patients, clients & just people over the years I find that some semblance of structure keeps you accountable to your plan. Your intentions may be good, but unless there is some accountability most people get no where. Nobody ever got rock hard abs with good intentions right?
The move was the hardest for me because it took all of my control away & like I said previously that routine went out the window (probably literally with how everything else went). We ate take out for weeks on end, constant running, stress to the max 75% of the time, intermittent exercise & meditation, & pure exhaustion. That was my life the past 4-6 weeks. While I was kind of the grumpy dwarf some days & embraced it others, the fact was there was nothing I could do about my lack of routine. And as another great song says...ohhh yea life goes on: Just a little diddy bout Colin & Ashley
But it's true!!! As crazy as life was the past 2 months or so, life has gone on. Pretty soon I will be back to working full time. I've already got a gym membership & a running route I love. So the routine, while it is a must to keep yourself on track for a healthy lifestyle, a break from it due to life or burn out or whatever is not going to kill you or make you morbidly obese. Don't beat yourself up over a routine-lapse like I did the past few months. But on the flip side don't let that drag out into a new lifestyle choice. Maybe it's just time to change it up. I don't recommend changing it up with a cross country move....maybe you just run a different route or something ;)
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| Our life in boxes |
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| Beginning of the great trek |
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| "Mom, we are so over the hotel life." |
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| Hello Northeast with what was left of my lobstah roll! |
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| "Finally a yard!!" |
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| Did I mention we LOVE Milford? Because all things considered with the move, we are LOVING our new town! |
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