{"id":2942,"date":"2012-01-17T12:31:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T19:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2942"},"modified":"2025-11-02T17:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T00:41:07","slug":"overwhelming-scenery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2942","title":{"rendered":"Overwhelming Scenery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t seem to &#8220;DO&#8221; anything.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve noticed my blog entries have trickled again&#8230; down to two a week.\u00a0 And this time its mostly due to not having anything to say more than not having time to write.\u00a0\u00a0 My brain says, &#8220;You gotta post a blog tomorrow&#8221; and it sets me scrambling &amp; thinking &amp; wondering until I&#8217;m basically procrastinating it off!<\/p>\n<p>And its not just the blog.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not in the mood to supervise the boys to clean my house.\u00a0 Oh they still do the daily chores but I haven&#8217;t made them pull chores on the bigger stuff.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve not done any upkeep on the gardening, the floors have dust bunnies in every corner &amp; don&#8217;t get me started on the toilets!<\/p>\n<p>Could be because my garage is almost done.\u00a0\u00a0 And once done I&#8217;ll be able to sort stuff into the cabinets, onto the rolling shelving units and &#8220;de-box&#8221; my house which is cluttered with all the stuff I had in the garage &amp; storage unit.\u00a0\u00a0 Of course, I love doing things like that&#8230; so there is a part of me anxiously awaiting this.\u00a0 And its put me in a holding pattern of sorts.<\/p>\n<p>Then there is all the goals I&#8217;ve set for myself to do.\u00a0 Ironically they have an order they need to be done in to be successful.\u00a0 So I cannot progress along getting Child Support until after the Army rules on how much of his Pension is mine.\u00a0 Oh there are little steps I can take but I sent an email to my lawyer regarding this and haven&#8217;t heard.\u00a0 He&#8217;s either REALLY busy or really unorganized &amp; I&#8217;m going to need to take some steps myself to move this forward.\u00a0 More than just a harassing phone call.<\/p>\n<p>And I cannot move forward on much of that to get my fair share of the pension and after THAT actual child support until AFTER I file for bankruptcy.\u00a0\u00a0 I have no assets to seize or protect &amp; ended up with the bulk of the credit card debt in the divorce.\u00a0 Add to that the unexpected medical bills &amp; I&#8217;m feeling the need for a true fresh start.\u00a0 Lucky for me I fall into the Chapter 7 category&#8230;. for now.\u00a0 If I&#8217;m ever going to do this, I need to do this now.\u00a0\u00a0 And find a different lawyer as mine isn&#8217;t emailing me back on this subject. lol<\/p>\n<p>Business wise this very bankruptcy thought makes me want to buy a few airline tickets for Sex God to accompany me on a trip or two for work this year.\u00a0\u00a0 Can I?\u00a0 Should I?\u00a0 So I&#8217;ve not done some of my conference booking due to this very hesitation.\u00a0 I need a hour or two to plow thru the sites, paperwork &amp; MAKE A DECISION!\u00a0\u00a0 Instead I fill my work days with doing some of the easier paperwork&#8230;. oh and take a few long lunches along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Why long lunches?\u00a0\u00a0 Cuz the Ex STILL hasn&#8217;t taken his son for a weekend so I can no longer host a play date unless its the boyfriend\/Sex God who the kids know&#8230; OR I get a babysitter &amp; that&#8217;s usually is only going to be a once a month kind of event.\u00a0 So I&#8217;ve been enjoying my lovers who CAN play during the weekday.\u00a0 Which of course, cuts into my work time. lol<\/p>\n<p>But its not a very good long term solution.\u00a0\u00a0 Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I love every minute of the sex, but its not the same as going out for a fun evening and FEELING like a Cougar through &amp; through.\u00a0 That emotional break from &#8220;Mommy&#8221;, &#8220;Employee&#8221;, you know&#8230; &#8220;Responsible Adult&#8221;\u00a0 is vital to keeping me loving my life.\u00a0 Too little of that and I start searching for new inputs that give it to me.<\/p>\n<p>But right now I seem to be standing on a precipice looking at all the things I need to do, want to do, don&#8217;t want to do, should be doing.\u00a0 And all I see in the pretty scenery.\u00a0 I have no motivation to\u00a0 move forward on any of them.\u00a0 To pick a direction and charge down the path.<\/p>\n<p>Worse is the feeling that time is creeping up behind me &amp; if I don&#8217;t gather the right things to start down any of these paths &amp; won&#8217;t have what I need before time shoves me down one.<\/p>\n<p>I think this is a character flaw in me&#8230; this scenery looks AWFULLY familiar!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t seem to &#8220;DO&#8221; anything. 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