Working on Resting

I am a living oxymoron.

I have been working at First Presbyterian since August and really haven't taken any time off since I started. We get 4 weeks of vacation time a year, and you either use it or lose it once January rolls around. Since Christmas eve preparations were so intense, I figured I'd take this final week of December as a vacation week.

But here's the problem. I SUCK at relaxing. I get a serious high from getting things done. The idea of sitting around my apartment in my pjs all week sounded so great 3 weeks ago when I was working 12 hour days, but now I don't know what to do with myself! I get all antsy and nervous and Dave comes home for lunch to find me scrubbing the random nooks and crannies of our already clean apartment.

SO... I need to WORK on resting; I need to feel okay about wearing my pjs all day, drinking red wine at 11am while I watch Sex and the City. It's 5pm somewhere, right?

But also... I've decided that this is the perfect week to make our apartment LESS BORING! We moved in here thinking that we'd only stay 6 months and then buy a house. But since the stock-market decided to take a nosedive (thanks inflated-housing-market!!), and since Dave the Vicar/Pastoral Intern/Visiting Minister/New-Guy makes less than minimum wage (thanks Lutheran church!!) we decided to stay here awhile. But this place needs some serious perking up.

See what I mean? And due to the aforementioned financial issues, we don't have a lot of cash to do it. So I've been scouring DIY blogs and plan on heading out to the 2 local thriftstores we have in town, and HOPEFULLY I can make a little somethin'-somethin' happen in this place.

Any tips, ideas, or suggestions would be welcome.