Busy Bee

You may have noticed along with my mom that posts have been slimmer since I’ve been back from New York. I’m telling you, my world has been spinning since then! I have a list on a white board (ok, it’s green) that I should be doing but I can’t seem to scratch even one off the list. So what could I possibly be doing with my time?

1. Family/House/Work. These are obvious and a must. But I’ve been trying to do more cooking at home (that’s hit or miss. i haven’t eaten out since Friday though), trying to keep up with laundry (and doing pretty well, thanks. i’ve even taken up ironing lol), keep up with Emma’s school work and reading. Work has been INSANE the past two weeks with some testing going on. Wednesday night I worked until 7:30 and didn’t even make it to church. Every day it seems I’m working late. I finally gave up at 5 or 5:30 today and normally I quit around 4. That hour before dinner is when I catch up with the house from the day. I’m just glad Scott is off and on days right now so he’s up and around to help me out around that time. He really is so great to help me out around the house so much. We’d be lost without him!
2. Bible Study. 1.5 hr on Saturday and then daily keeping up with my assignments and video. This really shouldn’t be a chore but it has to fit in.
3. Twitter.com. I won’t lie. I spend some time keeping up with everyone.
4. One Tree Hill Blog. Yes, things have gotten easier but it still takes up time looking for information and posting. Mainly keeping an eye on the comments seem to be the thing that holds me back. It’s been getting nasty there lately. I joked that I had to put on my Mommy voice a time or two to get people to calm down.
5. PrivilegedNews.com. This site does not take me more than a few minutes a day but sometimes all I have is a few minutes and it gets my time to make a post.
6. Reading everyone else’s blogs.
7. Facebook. Again, only a few minutes here and there.
8. Here. But as noted, it’s been a little slack lately.
9. Emails. My goodness the emails seem to have grown. I adore emails and all the great comments I’ve been getting since getting back. I would take this over almost anything else but it does take time to read and reply. Don’t anyone dare quit commenting or emailing trying to help me.
10. TV. I’ve REALLY cut back on what I watch. Only one or MAYBE two shows a night. MUCH less than I had planned at the beginning of the season. But an hour or two a night is significant when I’m trying to get so much done. Thankfully you can do things WHILE watching TV.
11. Reading and obsessing over Twilight but that just started Saturday. It’s a good thing there are fifty-bagillion web sites already because I’d be all over that.
12. Couponing. This past week was busy with the KMart deals and all that jazz. And I haven’t blogged about it much, but I’m still going to CVS weekly.

Now the other stuff that I NEED to fit in are:

• My church’s web site NEEDS a new site soon because their current host is expiring soon and they’re not renewing. I’ve gone so far as downloading a template to use.
• Our church’s youth web site needs rehauled. I’ve done a few things on this but haven’t gotten far.
• My mom’s web site is in need of a few changes.
• Our friends are starting a church and just want a domain purchased right now but are “in the queue” to have a web site done.

Things I would WISH I could do:

• Buy that other web site that was offered to me.
• Volunteer at Emma’s school.
• Increase my volunteer time at the church. There are many things I’d like to get into.
• Read more.
• Shop more.
• Watch TV more.
• Go out with friends more.
• Travel more. *cough* Wilmington *cough*
• Catch up on movies

Obviously I can’t do all the things even on my “need to do” list. It’s impossible. And I know my mom wants to give me a speech about quitting stuff and making time and all that jazz. But I just want to be supermom and supergeek and superfriend and super-duper everything else and get everything even on my wish list done but it’s just not possible. I feel like I need 3 more of me to get it all done. And really? When I start to think about it, I just get overwhelmed and go see what everyone is doing on Twitter. Not helpful.

Seriously though, I’ve wanted to quit work so badly lately and just do all this stuff I love. Sometimes I think life is short! Bag it and do what you love! Then I think well..it does have 401K and benefits and this little thing called a paycheck and while we COULD live off Scott’s income and the supplemental I’m (temporarily) getting off of my sites, there’s a lot of that wish list stuff that might not happen while trying to adjust.

I don’t know. Even while writing this post I’ve been thinking I could have been working on something else. There’s always something else. I don’t know what the answer is or if I need an answer. Right now, I’m just in that drowning phase and just coming up to breathe for a moment.