Well, its the new year and I have been in a major funk since I got back from vacation on Monday.  I’m guessing my current funk is a combination of post vacation, post holiday, and post exciting work project all happening around the same time.

Just got back from a fun vacation with my family.  Spent a week in Orlando with all the nephews, nieces, and brothers. Then it was off to mom’s house in Georgia for a nice and quiet New Years spent helping mom around the house and cuddling with my kitty cats (I miss them so much!).  Final stop was in Ohio to spend some time with my brother Jim’s and watch my niece swim.  It was a nice 2+ weeks of downtime after 3 months of challenging excitement in Tokyo.

So I go back to work and instead of being with the customer thousands of miles away in some great international location, I am twiddling my thumbs at a cubicle in Seattle with the prospect that my next assignment won’t be until late summer. Add to that, I scratched my left eye a little more severely than first thought and that ended up in a trip to the eye doctors and day spent at home with the blinds down struggling just to see. Oh, and Seattle has a pending snowpocalypse this weekend that the newscasters won’t shut up about. Thus….the Funk has set in.

Before everyone starts calling me making sure I am all right, please know I am fine.  The funk has come and gone before and I am sure this won’t be the last time it shows up when least expected. I will get over this and find the motivation to move forward.

But for right now, I am gonna spend the weekend huddled up under my comforter in my PJs catching up on movies and TV shows. I’m gone let my eye heal, maybe take a nice long soak one night and get lots and lots of sleep.  Come Monday, I will most likely be ready to move on with work and life. I will take the new year’s goals I made last week off the current holding pattern they are in now and tackle them anew. And maybe I will see the lack of a future assignment as an opportunity to tackle some other challenging task at work.

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