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I’ve made a decision.  I’m going to be irresponsible – at least for a little while.

I don’t know about you, but sometimes I just feel stuck.  Life goes on day-to-day, some days good, some not so good.  The interesting thing is that here I am in the middle of this new blog venture, and yet I’m looking for some major change that will make me feel “better.”

In reality, I think what’s going on is that I’m feeling a little bit anxious and I’d like to run away.  At the ripe old age of “somewhere between 40 and death,” it sometimes feels as if I’m responsible for too many people and have the weight of the world on my shoulders.

So, then I was thinking that I should take a vacation and realized that in order to take a vacation I’d have to write at least THREE MORE posts before I could leave.  Talk about ANXIETY!

So, I’ve decided.  At least for a little while, someone else can make dinner.  Someone else can clean house.  Someone else can do the laundry.  Now I just need to find “someone else.”

You’ve probably already spotted my solution.  I’ll let some of this stuff go for a little while.  Use the coupons everyone’s been sending to bring dinner in.  After all, the people working at those places need their jobs.  I can help them by ordering in.  As for cleaning house, who am I kidding?  It’ll just have to wait.  It’s clean enough to live in – just don’t try to eat off the floors. (Who’d want to eat off the floor anyway?  The dog does, but for us humans, it’s a really uncomfortable location.)

As for the laundry, if I just don’t shower for a couple of days…  Just kidding.  I’m not out of clothes, I just like to stay on top of it.  Not let it pile too high or deep.  So, I’ll ignore it for a while.

I can choose to create a mini-vacation from responsibility.  The work will still be there when I “come back”, but then it’s there when I return from being out of town.  Maybe when I get back from my “vacation” I’ll be able to see all these responsibilities as the blessing of being needed.  For now, I’m just going to ignore them.

In this economy, “staycations” are all the rage.  How do you take a break at home?