I went to bed last night thinking about knitting. I was reflecting on a new project I was working on and thinking about color combination possibilities for a sweater I want to make soon. For the past two years, I had been heavily engaged in graduate school and my first year as a school principal. Going to bed at night was difficult in that I couldn’t turn my brain off easily enough to not think about work and school as I fell asleep. It drove me crazy that my first thoughts when getting into bed were about all the things at work/school that had happened or could possibly happen, or that needed to get done the next day. Now that that experience is behind me, I’ll never stop being thankful that it is, I have a job in which my mind is free to think about things that are personally meaningful to me when I’m not at work. Usually this type of free thinking was reserved for the months of June and July when I would be on summer break. It has truly been delightful going into the autumn months and not having that familiar barrage of stressful school/work thoughts at every waking moment.
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Middle-aged Maverick is indeed middle-aged and she’s proud of it. She has a tendency to over think and over analyze many of the things she encounters in her life, as evidenced in many of her posts. She knows how to drive a stick-shift car, prefers Coke over Pepsi, and spent many of her adolescent years being obsessed with Jim Carrey.
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