Stumble It!
I get a lot of people asking me if I sleep at all because I always seem so busy. I am busy. I like busy. It makes me happy. But in calculating my time, I have found something odd. I will share an average day working at home and an average day in the office in number of hours with you and see if you can find the discrepancy.
Days I Work From Home
Work = 6 hours
Taking care of/spending time with children while awake = 12 hours
Taking care of children during the night = 1-2 hours
Cooking/Baking = 1 hour
Eating = 30 mins - 1 hour
Errands = 1 hour
Cleaning/Tidying/Laundry/House Projects = 1-2 hours
Exercise = 30 mins - 1 hour, 30 mins
Showering/Getting dressed = 30 mins
Spending time with Mike/Watching TV = 2 hours
Blogging/Returning emails/Computer time/Reading = 2 hours
Talking to my grandmother/mother/sister on the archaic phone = 30 mins - 1 hour
Sleeping = 4-6 hours
Total time = 32-36 hours.
Days I go into The Office
Work = 8 hours
Commute = 2 hours (including daycare drop off)
Taking care of/spending time with children while awake = 5 hours
Taking care of children during the night = 1-2 hours
Cooking/Baking = 30 mins or less
Eating = 1 hour at work
Cleaning/Tidying/Laundry/House Projects = 1 hour
Exercise = 30 mins
Showering/Getting dressed = 30 mins
Spending time with Mike/Watching TV = 2 hours
Blogging/Returning emails/Computer time (non-work related) = 1 hour
Talking to my grandmother/mother/sister on the archaic phone = 30 mins
Sleeping = 4-6 hours
Total time: 32-34 hours
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In doing this, I've learned two things: 1) I enter some magical timewarp where I make more time fit into each day (ALSO: Send vodka) and 2) My days at home and at work are the same as far as time expended; it is just allocated differently. This is what keeps me happy and sane. That on one day, I may not see my children for more than a few hours, but on the next day I make up for it.
This balance is how I get through each day, knowing that not all of me is being sucked away into one thing or the other. That I can share me with my husband, children, home, and career.
And knowing, that at the end of those 36-hour days, I'm still me.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
My time
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8 comments:
Woah girl. You definately need some vodka. And a long nap. :)
I love how you manage to squeeze 36 hours worth of work into 24 hours! I can see why you need vodka
You don't have time to sit and drink vodka......this calls for a straight up vodka IV Drip!
You are one multi-tasking mama!
Haha! You are AMAZING! I'd like more hours in a day, but not the way you do it.
Holy cow woman. I need to go lay down after reading this.
Sending vodka now. And I tend to keep the same schedule.
nice to see the breakdown of how you're actually balancing it all! Since you can't add any more hours into your day - I suggest multi tasking...Drink (vodka) while accomplishing some tasks (preferably not driving or working or kid related activities).
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