I'm gonna git you SUKKAH!
Yesterday I learned a lesson about boundaries.
Nobody. NOBODY! Nobody...
came to help us set up the Sukkah, and so Jerry and I were all by our lonesomes in the battle with the lumber and the bent screws and the rented power drill and the torn burlap and the rotting bamboo screen. And it was sad.
There I was, begging the grocery store for pumpkins and tying corncobs to ribbons, and poking apples (and myself) with a piece of wire hanger, and getting more and more angry... from 8am to 7pm. And the guy came from the newspaper and there was nobody to take any pictures of...
pathetic!
And when I went home I was feeling tired and frustrated, and unappreciated, and so I snapped and Chris when he didn't dote on me... but then I apologized.
Because what I was really angry about was that I was at work for 11 hours, doing things for other people... when nobody was doing anything for me.
Which is, I think, a problem with non-profit work.
That the work you're doing is something the world needs, but you're not necessarily doing something the world wants. So often, nobody says "Thank You!"
The lesson I learned was pretty basic: Don't stay at work for 11 hours, unless you absolutely have to!
So today I slept in until 9, and I'm planning on leaving at 2, to go work out and do the dishes and walk my dog... which are things I have not been doing often enough in this holiday season.
Hag Sameah, everyone!
Nobody. NOBODY! Nobody...
came to help us set up the Sukkah, and so Jerry and I were all by our lonesomes in the battle with the lumber and the bent screws and the rented power drill and the torn burlap and the rotting bamboo screen. And it was sad.
There I was, begging the grocery store for pumpkins and tying corncobs to ribbons, and poking apples (and myself) with a piece of wire hanger, and getting more and more angry... from 8am to 7pm. And the guy came from the newspaper and there was nobody to take any pictures of...
pathetic!
And when I went home I was feeling tired and frustrated, and unappreciated, and so I snapped and Chris when he didn't dote on me... but then I apologized.
Because what I was really angry about was that I was at work for 11 hours, doing things for other people... when nobody was doing anything for me.
Which is, I think, a problem with non-profit work.
That the work you're doing is something the world needs, but you're not necessarily doing something the world wants. So often, nobody says "Thank You!"
The lesson I learned was pretty basic: Don't stay at work for 11 hours, unless you absolutely have to!
So today I slept in until 9, and I'm planning on leaving at 2, to go work out and do the dishes and walk my dog... which are things I have not been doing often enough in this holiday season.
Hag Sameah, everyone!
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