Day 241 – Free vs me time.

Sometimes now I don’t feel like I have any free time.  So when I dropped Lukie off today at pre-school and realized that I had a whole hour without anything I HAD to do, I initially got this long list in my head of all the wonderful things I could get accomplished if I went home.  I could fold laundry, make the meatloaf for dinner, vacuum, hang pictures and…wait a minute or I could do something I would find fun.  I could take a book and go read somewhere (OK great idea but I would probably fall asleep).  I could go to the gym (stupid had not thought of this earlier, so went to the gym at zero dark AM), I could go hit the bakery (wonderful on some accounts, but may have major guilt issues after consuming baked goods for an hour).  So, finally I decided to go to a grocery store by myself with absolutely no agenda or list of things to buy.  Sadly or strangely (I don’t know which), I really enjoyed it!  I also got some great munchies that the boys will like and I would not have noticed if I was running around on a schedule attempting to fill a list.  Nobody else would probably get as much pleasure spending time this way.  I guess that is why they call it “me time”.  Actually think I used to get more “me” time when I worked.  How is that possible?