TouchedByMadness

If Time Is Money, I’m Nearly Bankrupt

Gah. Is it Friday yet?

Every day this week I’ve come home with a headache and more than a touch of fatigue. I’m so exhausted that I’ve got the Netflix movies coming again, but I’m too tired to watch them. Well, unless I want to work through them in twenty minute segments.

A couple days ago, in a rare moment of post-dinner consciousness, I decided to do an impromptu time-study to figure out where all my time goes. I came up with something like this:

10 hours spent at work (99% of that time actually working, yes, even through “lunch hour”)
1 hour spent showering/dressing/preparing for work
1.5 hours spent commuting to and from work
8 hours spent “sleeping” (accounts for all time spent in pajamas, whether or not sleep actually occurs)
0.5 hours spent eating dinner & sharing details of day with the Captain
3 hours of “free time”

When you have errands to run, blogging to do, cats to appease, and you really need to start spending time at the gym, three hours a day is not a whole lot of time. Can you imagine all the things I could accomplish if only I had more “me” hours?

I have. In fact, I’ve made a list of the top ten things I’d love to do if only I had unlimited time (and money):

1. Travel the world.
2. Learn how to salsa dance.
3. Get a pilot’s license.
4. Take voice lessons.
5. Do some rock climbing.
6. Spend more time baking.
7. Find inner peace.
8. Master the art of making balloon animals.
9. Learn how to sail.
10. Take web design classes.

It’s my personal goal in life to manage to do at least one of the things on my list. If I could somehow do them ALL, well, I’d die a happy woman.