Home alone / mental health dump

"With E away visiting for this school holidays and D in Wellington for part of school holidays / all of quilting symposium, my expectation was that I would be able to take the energy I normally spend on them and redirect it to a) easier work hours b) downtime c) catching up with people I haven't seen in ages and d) the long list of things wanting to be done around the house.

Narrator: this did not happen."

https://marsden-online.dreamwidth.org/1038015.html