Free time.. what?

It is strange to me how easily humans fall into habits.  Seriously.  It is only strange to be because I'm now trying to fall OUT of a habit.  Which seems like it would just be easy, except.. it is the creation of a whole new mindset, which is the strange part to me.

What am I talking about?

Not being in Bahrain.

Not being on a watchfloor job where everyone is running around with their hair on fire and their problem is the most important problem.

Not working 12 hour days.

Not feeling like I need to go to bed within an hour and a half of getting home.

The things that I bitched and complained about the most while I was in Bahrain, I can't seem to shake.

If only I had known.

When I get to work at 0730 and leave work at 1630, I get home and my brain is like, ok, now what?  In Bahrain it was:

1-  Have I had dinner?  No?  Eat while Skype-ing with Teh Bear till he goes to work/it is bedtime.  Yes?  Skype with Teh Bear till he goes to work/it is bedtime.

2-  Do I have something that needs to be done but will take longer than 1.5 hours and/or can it wait till a day off?  Yes?  Do it on a day off.  No?  Do it on a day off.

3-  Do I have something that I have to get done in America?  No?  Skype with Teh Bear till he goes to work/it is bedtime.  Yes?  Skype with Teh Bear till he goes to work/it is bedtime while taking care of business in America.

Now, I can get off work, come home and I can do a load of laundry, I have time to make dinner, then not immediately go to bed (which has also been part of the eating healthier kick).  It's just a very strange adjustment for me, even a month after leaving Bahrain.  Still, I've not fully wrapped my mind around the fact that this is it, and it is ok.

Life is so good I still think to myself, I am really so grateful because this was not my life for the past year.  And I don't even bother to think, this made the last year worth it.  Because, well, life in Bahrain without your peeps.. by the time my 3 years in MD are up, maybe then will I think that Bahrain was worth it.

Now if I could just train myself that laundry doesn't have to wait till a day off.  :)