I often feel like I am drowning in my own responsibilities. I had this feeling for weeks before retiring from professional web design. I had this feeling for the first few weeks after bring home each of my kids. Anytime I am trying to do too much at one time, I get this feeling. It’s my signal that I need to drop some things from my schedule… so here I sit, drowning once again…. only this time, I may have hurt someone I’ve known for years in my attempts to reach the surface.<\/p>\n
How do I put this without putting too much information out there and hurting the other parties even more?<\/p>\n
I was involved in a thing, that I had to bow out of. I wound up leaving a friend behind, and possibly wrecking a friendship in the process. How do I maintain this delicate balance between my online life and my real life? I posted a few weeks ago about feeling stretched to my limits, even for Elasti-Girl. (see post here<\/a>.) How do I maintain my friendships, and yet artfully extract myself from the situations I was in?<\/p>\n Well, I tried. and I failed miserably. I can only hope that my friend will understand what a dunce I can be. I wish her and hers the best of success. I am just not in position to be a part of it. I tried. I tried my best. But when you are sinking below the surface of the water, it’s time to drop a few of the rocks, you know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I often feel like I am drowning in my own responsibilities. I had this feeling for weeks before retiring from professional web design. I had this feeling for the first …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}