Withdrawal

My husband tells me that I tend to take on too much - and yes, I think he's right... there has been at least one teary break down in recent history.
I'm a full time teacher, I'm a member of a teaching association committee, I've been a manager of a state schools sports team for the last 5 years and I've held a position in a sporting association for 5 years now too. So, next year I've decided that I won't be as involved with the sport - I'm not putting myself forward to manage the team, and I've asked for someone else to be trained to do the position I've filled. Having said that, we are hoping to buy a house in the next 6 months or so. I do think that if we continue to rent, my head may explode, so the house buying is probably a positive... yeah I'll just keep telling myself that.

2010 is the first year for a while where I haven't had something to plan for at the end of the year (wedding/holiday etc). It's actually been quite hard - I keep telling myself that almost 2 months of time off is enough to look forward to, but I still feel like something is sort of missing. I've kept myself busy for the 1st two weeks of the holidays by going to the gym, catching up with friends, cooking and baking. But I'm not sure that will keep me going for another 6 wks...
This is what made me realise that I'll struggle without a project... Yesterday I finally gave in to temptation and went and had a little look around sayso weddings. I had been resisting looking at it because I knew I'd keep going back (like I do with the wedding SA forum). Sad perhaps (as we are already 1 year married), but true nonetheless. I do like reading people's wedding plans... and I have to say I miss the excitement. Plus, I like catching up with all the lovely girls who planned their weddings around the same time as us! Well, Kellyansapansa has organised a giant Trash The Dress event. I tried to resist. I failed. I'm in... just sounds like way too much fun - getting together in a wedding dress with 50 "brides" to have hair/makeup done, breakfast together, photos and then either cake fight, paint fight, or dress drowning at the beach! I won't be doing it my own wedding dress though - it means too much. Another girl has several dresses and I will be using one of those.
I never thought I was a girly girl, but I must admit I do seem to have a bit of princess in me.

I blame withdrawal from planning things. But at least now I have a few major thing to look forward to!