Finding new schedules for my life and work

How do you figure out life? Does anyone ever? 

 

Now that I’ve started working another job, I’m learning what my new schedule looks like. Nine to five during the week for the magazine, working on newspaper tasks on the weekends, and along with that, whatever events and activities I can squeeze in. 

 

Wake up, get to work, go to the gym, go home and relax for an hour or two and then bed. That I can do just fine; it’s the little things I keep trying to figure out. Like do I take a walk during my half hour lunch break or do I do the house chores that need to be done? When do I go to the store? Am I eating the right things throughout the day to keep me healthy? (I can’t live off a college diet anymore.) How do I ensure I will make time for relationships, and not only that, but make sure I am able to be present with others mentally and physically?

 

You know, the little things.

 

I know Eli shared last week about the importance of taking time for your health, both physical and mental. It meant a lot to me hearing that come from a boss, as I know that a lot of managers out there might not be as empathetic as Eli. 

 

In good news, I’m liking my new job as associate editor of “Colorado Parent” magazine. I get to write fun little articles for the website and talk to parents and businesses making a change in the community for the publication. I even get to go to fun events – I get to interview and then go to a Disney on Ice performance and go and sample plant-based macaroons at a new shop in Denver!

 

As much as I’m enjoying the job and the work, I sometimes think it’s funny that I work for a parent magazine, given that I’m not even close to being a parent. Other editors I work with here are indeed parents and it’s fun to read their more personal articles about what it’s like taking care of their children and what advice they are giving to other parents. Me, I just write more about fun events that I think kids and families would want to go to. Or I talk with parents and get to know what it’s like for them to have kids and what advice they’d give other parents. One mom I talked to this past week suggested that if anyone is struggling with anything, to ask themself, “What would I tell 30-year-old (insert kid’s name)?” She said it helps her put perspective on her situation to think about what advice she’d give her kids and then use that for herself. I guess I can take notes for the future whenever I decide to have kids. 

 

So that’s been my life recently. The weather is warmer than I want, but at least the sun is out, heating my apartment through all our windows while I work. I keep getting told how different a Denver winter is from a Minnesota one and I’m curious to learn whether I agree, or if they are just lying to me to convince me to stay. Nothing will beat a Minnesota winter, though. 

 

My Determination: “Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane