Friday's 5

1. Running rocks. I love being in my groove. On the other hand, weightlifting after a 6 month break... ouch.
2. Pre-trip insanity is insane. Work is bonkers. Totally bonkers. If they could, they'd cancel my trip and it's all because "they" ignored my offer of help on the front end of a project and now it's blown up and I'm one of two people who knows the history. Honestly, I feel bad, but only a little bad because my initial offer to help was strictly above and beyond my job AND they ignored me. Sucka.
3. little kids who climb into bed with you at 4 am because they had nightmares and need snuggles... so sweet and soothing.
4. Packed for trip 3 days early = sanity

( 5 = ladies room comment. read at your own risk )

Edit
I'm boggled. There was no time on my lunch break for shopping, just the necessary eye appt I've put off for 4 months. You cannot go into the mfg building without all the right "personal attire". At 3pm they needed someone to do a rush task that's spawned by NO. 2 above. It's in the mfg area and apparently I'm the only person on a site of 1000+ people who's qualified AND here on a Friday afternoon who can do this. But I still can't go in. One of my female co-horts fell out of her chair laughing at my replay of these conversations where I try to explain the situation to various men (including my boss) without explicitly saying anything that would require a call to HR.

Of all the days to mispack a gym bag, this is either the worst or (since I can't get sucked into the emergency work created by NO. 2 above) the best.

Of course this happens the day before an extended absense. High-Stare-I-Cal

How thin is too thin?

when you spread yourself thin across multiple commitments, how do you decide you've spread yourself too thin?

Is it a physical failure?
Mental paralysis?
Sudden unexpected shopping trips?
The insane desire to take on more, proving that you weren't overcommitted before but you might be nudging close to it now?
Friends warning you that you are frazzled or perhaps insane?
Or do you even notice before you collapse in a confused haze of exhaustion?

And what do you do to recover?
Do you cut out activities?
Freak and do a 180, becoming ultra-uncommitted?
Do you continue to try to keep all the balls in the air until you go to system failure?

Just curious.