I had planned on picking up a shift today. I needed to from a financial perspective. But yesterday afternoon I started to feel weird. I had a round of palpitations and chest pain that was quite aggravating. So I changed my mind. I decided that I would stay home and take care of myself. Do what I wanted, not what I needed. I have been working a lot the last three weeks and it may be that my body is just asking for a halt for two days to catch up.

I came home after work and decided to make me some pancakes. I am quite good at making pancakes if I may brag about it. Swedes doesn’t brag… but I do. Well, I had a plan with making them. There was a severe thunderstorm watch issued over night and since last time we had one we were out of power for 24 hours and if that would happen again I at least had cold pancakes to eat, which I actually like.

I slept fairly well last night. Woke up at 1:40 since that is my normal time to wake up and was awake for a couple of hours before I let the phone down (darn TikTok that makes time fly) and go back to sleep. But I felt well rested when I woke up. I felt that I had made the right decision to not work today. I confirmed to myself that my body needed a break.
The weather wasn’t bad at all, we had some rain but no thunder as far as I know. I slept probably. We had power. So my breakfast actually consisted of warm pancakes.

Not sure what the rest of the day will contain. It is only 8:45 am. I will take the dogs for a walk a little later but that is all I have planned. It will be an “ego day”. I will do whatever I feel like doing. I won’t go to work tomorrow either. I have some errands to run after the paycheck gets into the account so…

Do you take “ego days”?