Remember how I was boasting that I didn’t get terribly sick with my DH’s cold? Well, that’s only partially true. It did sneak up on me, with a vengeance, and knocked me down and out for about 2 days. Those 2 days just happened to be this past Sunday and Monday, and I was feeling so bad that I actually rescheduled all my clients and canceled all my other appointments. I’d seen what the cold has done/is doing to my hubby: it’s been three weeks and he’s still not all the way recovered. I figured I was going to end up getting that sick.

But I didn’t! By Monday afternoon I was starting to feel a bit better and by Tuesday, I was close to back to normal, and definitely better than my hubby is after three weeks. Certainly I would have been able to work. Instead, I have a week off.

So I decided to enjoy it. I gave myself permission to goof off, and goof off I did, at least for a couple of days. I read novels, watched movies, slept in. It felt wonderful for about two and a half days, and then I got antsy. Apparently I can only take so much of unstrutured, unproductive down time.

And I was wondering. Has anyone else had this experience? What is too much down time? What is enough?