Took a Mental Health Day - Lol JK!!

I’m headed down to California tomorrow for a softball tournament, but as I’ve been pretty burnt out recently, I took today off as well. I told myself that I’d just chill out and do some low energy activities to relax that I don’t usually get the chance to do.

I didn’t set my alarm and hoped to sleep in - I woke up 6am. So I was like, “okay, well let’s just have a productive morning since we’re already up, and then we’ll chill.” So I did some laundry, cleaned my place (both overdue), and paid my bills. I killed a few hours, and as a few of you know, I’m a big Germany/Bayern Munich soccer fan so I sat down to watch the Germany game, cracked a brunch Coors, and turned my phone off to avoid distractions and let myself enjoy. Heard a call come through from my iPad (courtesy of Bravado, thank you @sahil, @GeneralCorp) and of course, it was an important work call that I had to take.

Since then, I have been been scrambling, making phone calls, and responding to emails that I really didn’t want (or thought) I’d to have to deal with, and now I feel obliged to work and finish all these tasks.

I guess I really don’t know what the point of this post is, rather than to vent that even on my planned 0 work day, I still can’t disconnect, and now I’m working while on PTO. Pretty bummed. I’d ask for advice on how others are able to disconnect, but we’re already past the point of no return and I know that if I would’ve also remembered to turn off my iPad, I would’ve been set.

On a more positive note, I have not stopped cracking the Coors while I’ve been working, as a Coors Knight should be able to do both simultaneously. S/O@BigMeech