Burnt out

I've been away from blogging for a few days.  Okay, more like a couple weeks.  But I am not without reason.  This time of year always seems to have a rush, rush feel to it, and this also seems to be the time of year when things are especially busy with work, life, everything in general.  Because of this and more, I have had neither the time nor the energy to post. 

Do you know what that was?  That was a paragraph of vague and not entirely true excuses.  Yes, I have been busier than usual.  Yes, I am also sick.  But there have been moments over the past couple weeks when I could easily have logged in and penned a fascinating and insightful blog post.  There were hours during my evening at home when I could have torn myself away from the TV and spent some time exercising the keys on my laptop.  

But here's a statement that is entirely true.  I'm burnt out.  I know, I know, who isn't, right?  But I can feel myself starting to go under a little at a time, more and more each day.  I'm stir crazy in my surroundings and I just want to run away.  My lack of motivation is completely apparent (at least it is to me), and I feel like week in and week out all I am doing is counting the days and counting the hours until the weekend.  Sitting here at my desk it's all I can do to make it through this blog post.....a post which obviously has no direction whatsoever. 

Direction.  Is that what is missing from my life right now?  Am I restless and unmotivated because I am off track, wandering aimlessly, looking to be set right?

Or am I just looking for a different road....a more exciting one? 

I'm holding fast to the notion that once I kick this cold and actually have some energy things will start to look up.  It's so much easier to be positive and optimistic when you aren't exhausted and feeling like crap.