Million Miles a Minute

My grandma used to say to me "you're going a million miles a minute!"  That's when I was 5 and now at 32 I'm going even faster.  I feel really busy, but am I really busy?  I feel lazy, but am I lazy?  I start a million tasks, but rarely finish one.  I can't remember what I'm doing from one minute to the next.

I am at my computer a lot, and when I am not working, emailing, blogging, playing Words with Friends, Pinteresting and Facebooking, I am on the phone, texting, running errands, chasing kids, cooking and generally busy with my family and my home. Keeping house is not my highest priority. My friends all know this to be true. It is not a virtue, I confess. I become absorbed with life and and my projects that housekeeping falls by the wayside.  I have a cleaning lady and then I fire the cleaning lady because I want her to do housework better than I would do it.  So I decide I can just do it myself, but I never do!


For my grandma, keeping the house in order was a top priority. My grandma had an active family, but kept an orderly home. She did not make having children an excuse to be sloppy. But then, she did not have a computer and did not spend hours a day working, blogging, and Facebooking. She organized her time and never wasted a minute.

I'm going to try that.  I'm going to stop wasting so much time just wasting time.  Starting today I'm going to get organized.  I'm going to regain control of this house.  I'm going to file all of my recipes.  I'm going to clean out my closet.  I'm going to clean out my kid's closets. I'm going to actually cross things off my to do list at work and at home.  I'm going to get the garage back in order so I can park in it.  I'm going to make time to exercise.  I am going to slow down and focus!  Stay tuned...

Cheers!