Up North (& Out There doing it)

100 Days

Its been 100 days since I stepped aside and became a house husband so to speak. I have to admit, its been fabulous. I have loved the extra time for the family, I have loved the extra time networking and finding out what's going on out there.

Feels great, and from some perspective, too good.

What to do?

What to do?

Here’s a short list of things that I’d consider feeling good getting done while on the ‘beach’ so to speak:

• Get all up to date on my Dr. Appointments
• Fix my knee issue
• Spend some more time in a weekly routine with D
• Take a yoga class
• Paint a room in our house
• Write down my thoughts on start up that I’ve refused to do since I could never get work to carve it out of my day to days, even though there was no chance that we’d pursue it as s product.
• Record another podcast for D
• Get my office set up like I would like it
• Fix my running blog

Already Two weeks have passed

Kind of amazing, but two weeks have passed since it was time to step aside and move on. That’s incredible. As I’ve mentioned to a couple of folks, being sick is for the employed, not the self or un employed and it’s really wiped me out. As others have mentioned, perhaps this is just my body reacting to what’s been a real grind for a long time and finally recovering.

What have you – the time is flying by but feeling good. It’s a strange feeling to be honest. I’ve been super busy, in the city out there making connections etc and not really spending much time at home, in fact hardly any.   That feels good and bad. It’s amazing how living can creep into a full time and how quickly that can happen.

But what’s been also strange is what I don’t have time for recently. For perhaps the first time every, I’m looking at the Internet into my home as a huge time sink. I also have very little time to play Scrabulous or Scramble, despite the fact that I think they are great games, all of the sudden, in the midst of unlimited time to myself (which is actually a lie, I’ve got a lot of responsibilities that continue to impact that day to day), I just don’t seem to have the time for it.

I’d say my biggest fear is months are going to pass and I won’t have anything to show for it: No relaxing, no start up, no new gig – nothing. Again, in the freedom of everything and anything, it’s a little overwhelming not to be boxed in by anything.

I’ve thought for a long time that my parents generation really had some things easier, in particular in the role that employment played in their lives. In general, families went where the job was. There was no virtual offices, company jumping etc. In fact, given that, it’s amazing that S and I didn’t cross paths earlier since her Dad worked for Xerox and yet managed never to move to

Rochester

.  It gets back to my feelings on where we live that I had about 12 months ago. If I knew for 100% that NYC was my financial source, then my life would be perfectly aligned. Love our house, its location, etc. However, in the area of unlimited choices, it’s always sitting in the back of your mind – what if I moved? What if we did something else, and it’s really so much more about the thoughts of what we could do, rather than what we would actually do.

It’s unsettling that for sure.

Putting my Met Membership to work

Day #2 -- off to a much better start. Decided that I'd keep a previously scheduled breakfast in Shannon's old UES hood. Had a great conversation with a friend of a friend and then decided to check in with my Dr. to see if I can kick this cold. The beauty of being between jobs, any time slot you can get works for '45 mins from now' is actually a time that you can use.

But after, I had a little bit of time to kill so I thought I'd take advantage of my Met Membership that has been sitting idle in my wallet, unfortunately, for most of the time that I've had it. So, with the time, it seemed almost rude not to try and take advantage. It was wonderful.

And I also decided that my Moleskin notebook, that I picked up on a whim, really was a good call. I love it.

Day #1, not how I expected it

So for the first day 'off', this isn't how I expected to use it. The little man was sick over the weekend so I was on sick kid duty and we just hang out all day. The good thing certainly was that at least one of us didn't have to take the day off to take care of the little guy.

I guess that is just a one of those little things.

Hello....This thing still on?

So, when its time to go, its time to go. I finally agreed 100% with my boss for the first time in along time -- that it was time to step aside, part ways with work and move on. Going to dust this blog and tell you all about it.