A time to forget

It would appear that I never learn or at the very least have a hard time taking on certain lessons that are fundamental to my sanity. The biggest one that I’m struggling with at the moment, one that I thought I had mastered well over the last two years, is to leave work in work.
As I’m sure I’ve made clear I’m struggling quite a lot with my work. Effectively the same job as I had at home it is turning out to be quite different and substantially less satisfying and challenging than what I did at before. Please bear in mind that I wasn’t hugely enamoured of my job at home anyway for about 40% of my time in it. Things changed in the last few years which is why I stuck with it.
Now I am caught up in managing a finicky job that both drains my time and my spirit and keeps me alternately hugely busy and not at all. It also keeps me endlessly bored. Due to the finicky nature of the work it preys on my mind all the time. I have started to dream about. My biggest mistake however is checking my work email in the evening and, worse still, at the weekend. There is inevitably something there that starts me worrying and ruins my mood and my relaxation time. I learned not to do this once already so I don’t understand how I’ve regressed so badly.
James is terribly patient with me about work pulling my mood down and does his best to distract me. He does get annoyed when I bring it on myself however. And so I start again with this lesson in life. In order to stay sane I cannot let work take over my life. This weekend will be first test of that.
The other big lesson I have to teach myself again and again is that no matter how much fringes flatter my face, until I become substantially less lazy about doing my hair I cannot have one cut in! Fringes require maintenance!