No time...

There is just not enough hours in the day. I consider myself pretty adept at multitasking, and generally I'm pretty productive. But lately I don't think I even have the time to be productive. This was my day:

7:35- RUDELY shaken awake"Mom... Mom...MOM GET UP I'm going to be late for school." Stupid kid- he should have just went back to bed and pretended to have overslept like me!
Chris to school, Shawn bath, Brianna clothed, fed, and off to preschool. Clean house, laundry, laundry, and more laundry. Pack up Fall/Thanksgiving decorations to prepare for the inevitable onslaught of Christmas decorations. Go pick up Micahlynn, take kids to Youthfit at the Y, take M. home, go home eat lunch, library, K. haircut, Lowes, wash and vacuum van, pick Chris up, Food Lion, C. haircut, Target- home, dinner. It is 8 pm, I'm totally wiped, and still have about a million things to do...

There are so many things that I would like to do
- learn Photoshop
- learn to knit and crochet
- dejunk the attic- before the ceiling collapses.
-dejunk my closet-seriously this time!
- Really learn all the settings/features on my camera
- Take a cake decorating class
- do fun and spontaneous things with my kids
- read more

This is just a partial list- I'm sure there are a million other things that I would add if I had the energy to think right now.

I have so many things looming over my head- my literature review that is so late- I can't even stand thinking about it! My yard looks horrible- there are so many leaves... I did sweep off the front porch, walkway and sidewalk- so it looks a little better but not much. There are several huge limbs on my back deck (thanks to the winds we had a couple weeks ago with the 6 tornados) walking out there is a serious health hazard. The leaves are probably a foot high, the aforementioned limbs, and the numerous pecans that the squirrels have been unable to find thanks to the high volume of leaves...

It is definatly on my priority list for tomorrow. I'll pile them all out by the street- hopefully the city workers will promptly come by and suck them all up....

I cannot believe that it is December already. I feel like I am already behind- there is so much left to do! I have made a serious dent in my shopping- but thats the least of my worries. Christmas cards are looming over my head- so are my Christmas decorations (literally- they are still up in the attic! UGH!) I need to make a list of all the things I want to do this holiday season... Movies I want to watch, recipes I want to try etc. I would love to start a project. Either a Jessie Tree ( I don't have time/energy/interest to find a link- basically it is a bare limb that you decorate with different handmade ornaments specific ones from different chapters of the bible. An apple from Genesis etc.) I think its a really cool idea. I would also LOVE to make our Christmas stockings this year. Chances of these projects becoming a reality- slim to none- but it is the season for miracles isn't it?

There are a few blogs that I skim when I have the time- noone that I know, just people I've found that I think are interesting. I think that I am going to stop voyeristically learning about their lives- it just makes me depressed. Seriously- some of these women are just too much! Making their kids clothes, running successful shops on the internet, baking bread, blogging daily. I think I'm going to find some new blogs to read- slacker blogs- "Got up, fed kids Fritos for breakfast, it was all we had in the house, went back to bed slept until noon, watched soap operas all afternoon." yada yada yada