Life Organizer

Is that enough hats to wear? It seems like my life is full enough that if there is more than one crisis, illness, or extra event in a day that I get behind on something, and if it happens several days in a row, EVERYTHING gets so behind it seems almost hopeless. And even after several years of listening to Flylady, though I know her system works, I still WANT to start one thing and finish it. I will be strong today, and tackle all of the impending crises 15 minutes at a time.

I know that sometimes other people want to know just how other people in the same boat are managing, so I’m going to try to log my whole day here.

6:35 got up, only 5 minutes late. Woke up kids, found their jeans and socks in the pile of clean laundry that hasn’t been put up, fed the cats and fish, took meds, drank first 16 oz of water, packed lunches (the kids usually eat breakfast at home and buy lunch at the cafeteria, but they wanted to switch today), signed their papers, made coffee, started laundry.
7:15 kids got on the bus, woke up DH with some difficulty, finished getting dressed, went for a walk (a very hilly mile, took 18 minutes today in some newish hiking boots that shortened my stride – and while I’m making excuses, I had a chemo treatment yesterday, and have had a stomach virus and a cold for days. There, whine over! I’m really being determinedly cheerful today. Here, at least, because it is annoying my husband!) , finally got to enjoy my coffee and listened to the local radio news while writing this so far, updating facebook, and twitter.
8:30 gathered trash, emptied cat box, took trash out, answered the phone, made breakfast
9:10 listened to the daily Bible reading while eating, discussed it with Mick, rebuilt my web page that double checks business receipts because PayPal changed something that broke it, answered a business call, answered a quick IM from someone checking on me, double checked 3 days of receipts
11:00 took a shower, lost a medium sized handful of hair, dried it – another good hair day! (It used to be very thick, and is behaving very well now that half of it is gone.), rebooted the laundry, unloaded and reloaded the DW, visited with my mom and gave her my shopping list, finished my second glass of water, started lunch.
12:30 Ate lunch, played a game of Sudoku, called all of the girl scouts about the rescheduled party and news, finished water #3, whittled email down to 300 in my inbox.
2:00 Rebooted laundry, stripped Timothy’s bed, gathered all the dirty laundry, got inbox down to 286
2:30 Folded 3 loads, made hot tea with honey to get rid of a coughing fit, wrote 9 more Christmas cards, put up the groceries that my mom brought over.
3:15 Picked up Timothy from school, dropped off forms at the counselor’s, went to the post office, took T to Wal-mart to get a birthday present for his friend-who-is-a-girl, stopped by the clinic to admire the flowers I sent my sister for her birthday, brought T home to practice piano and discovered that he left his backpack at school in the pickup area, went back to school but the office was closed and the backpack was gone, got Mick to take T to piano lesson while I picked up the other kids at martial arts, dropped off the last cub scout popcorn order, back home.
5:30 Helped Hannah with piano, called the mom of the birthday girl and arranged picking her up for dinner tonight (T had to miss her party, so we’re all going out tonight instead), helped Jonathan with piano, wrapped present, started today’s embroidery newsletter, picked up T from piano, picked up the friend, went out to dinner. Two more glasses of water!
8:15 back home, got younger two kids ready for bed, got them to put up their folded clothes, read to them, fed the critters, sorted and rebooted the laundry, finished newsletter.
9:50 about to take meds and go to bed!