Being back in the swing of work and regular life has reminded me of just how little time I have to do everything I would like to do. I'm not sure if it's simply a lack of hours in the day, bad time management, or both.
My typical work day consists of getting up at 6 am and getting home at 6:30 pm. By the time we're home and done with dinner, it is usually 8 pm. Typically, I start getting ready for bed at 11 pm (which is already quite late). Which leaves me 3 hours each evening to do the following:
- Play/spend time with Bandit
- Feed/clean/spend time with foster kittens
- Feed/spend time with our own cats
- Feed fish and do tank chores
Those are the mandatory things, and that probably takes an hour total. That leaves 2 hours for the other stuff (Wednesdays, I lose about an hour and a half for either Bandit's agility class or my volunteer work for TVAR):
- Exercise
- Watch TV/hang out with Marc (time spent with cats can be rolled into here, as they usually hang out in our laps when we're on the couch)
- Play video games (I don't even have time these days to play WoW - haven't logged in in ages)
- Edit and upload photos to website
- Work on website
- Learn more Photoshop
- Read
- Computer time
- Unpack junk we still haven't unpacked from moving
- Relax
- Work on stuff on the fish tank
- Brainstorm on how to manage time better
There are other things I would like to do/learn, but I can't even imagine trying to fit them in.
Marc and I try to get a lot of errands and other stuff done on weekends, but we also use the weekends to sleep in and unwind. Saturdays I watch football, Sundays Marc watches football. Sometimes we have agility trials. Sunday mornings I take Bandit herding. Saturday evenings, we like to hang out with family or friends or watch movies. Sunday evening we do chores, like laundry.
I am not, and never will be, a morning person. And even if I could wake up an hour earlier and actually function well enough to say, go for a walk or go to the gym, it would just be an extra hour of sleep lost, and I'm sleep deprived as is.
So what's a person to do? I'm not organized by nature (at all), but maybe I need to make a daily schedule? I really want us to start routinely exercising, but when/how can we fit that in?
And will we ever get our garage clean?
It's a Zoo
Momma cat seems to be in a protective phase (although she's fine with me). We came home last night and she had moved all 6 kittens into her litter box again. I moved them back, left the room, came back 5 minutes later, and she had already moved one back to the box. I put the cover back on the crate, and that seems, for now, to make her feel secure enough to leave them there.
I went into the bathroom to feed and clean when momma cat spied Stubby outside in the hallway. She raced after him, hissing and spitting. I managed to grab her and put her back in. The second time, I tried to get in and out quickly, but she was too fast, and this time, after she chased off both Stubby and Snuggles, she took her ire out on Bandit, who, bless his soul, didn't fight back. Poor guy just kept trying to get out of the way, and she kept wailing on him (if she was a dog, she'd be in trouble, but Bandit seems to have an odd reverence for cats). I did my best to try to get Bandit out of harm's way while not being torn to shreds. Marc heard the commotion and came upstairs, and we shuttered the dog and our cats in our bedroom, which let momma cat calm down enough so that I could grab her.
Lesson learned: pets will have to be locked up when taking care of mom and kittens!
Oh, and that whole ordeal probably wasted 10 minutes of my evening.
well, you definitely sound much more productive than me. =) i don't know how you can survive on 7 hours of sleep every day.
More like 6! By the time I brush my teeth, wash up, change, get in bed, watch a little TV, it's usually 12 or later before I fall asleep. I'm thinking we need to stop going to bed with the TV on. Even so, I'm such a night owl that it's hard enough to convince my brain to fall asleep before midnight.