What are the things you wish you’d accomplish, but don’t make time to do? For me, it’s : organize my office (a beautiful space piled like a storage locker with paper and paper and kiddie crap); figure out how to have horses (at least an hour and a half a day commitment); work out nearly every day (that’s happening lately, thanks to good advice from one of my readers); get on a regular grocery shopping schedule so that we don’t run out of things we need (blood is dripping from my eyes as I read back over THAT one–how housewife-mundane-horrifing, really! and yet–true.)
So, what I’ve noticed is that some women DO accomplish some (maybe all?) of these desired things, so the answer must be that they prioritize/organize their time differently than I do. Maybe, just maybe, if I were able to gain a window into their daily schedules, I’d get a sense of how to reorganize my own. (Say: don’t spend three and a half hours in the morning online redesigning your blog page. Just as an example.) So…there’s a new tab at the top of the page. If you want to play, click there, and leave your daily breakdown (in whatever form makes sense to you) in the comments. The other great thing about this semi-tedious exercise: you get to give yourself credit for the things you do manage to get done.
Like yesterday, a hellish snowday: I trekked down to the barn to check on and water the chickens. (We’re going on week 2 of broken pipes in the barn–a hassle for me and a big hassle for our patient friends/tenants.) I sorted one of the two remaining giant toy dump boxes in my son’s rooms, threw out a huge box of broken toys and organized a bunch more. I culled all the broke crayons from the playroom crayon graveyard, and the Babe and I melted them down into big, madeleine-shaped crayons (I think I like this more than she does, though she loves sorting them by color.) She and I filled the birdfeeder. I tested not one but two (sucky) recipes that I had hoped to publish on Rural Intelligence. I got the remaining images and info I needed for my next gallery show on The Sister Project. Then it all went to s^*%, but hey–I did some things. And now I can see where the day went, even if it’s not exactly where I wanted it to go.
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