Wednesday, March 2, 2011

time budget sheet

when 2011 was rolling in, i thought to revert to my elementary school practice of creating a time budget sheet to sort myself out. essentially, its a time-based graph of your daily schedule. obviously, i haven't done it yet. 


here's the current simplified version:


  8:00 - 9:00*     start waking up
  9:00 - 9:30       shower, with or without LP
  9:30 - 10:00      breakfast with LP (if his daddy showers with him before i do as is usually the case, LP's breakfast takes an hour. or part I with daddy and part II with me, with some play in between)
10:00 - 11:30      random chores, random play with LP
11:30 - 12:30*     LP naps, i check mail
12:30 - 1:00        LP wakes up, i assemble lunch
  1:00 - 5:00       random chores, random play with LP with LP snack in between
  5:00 - 7:00       tea break for BBB & me, Pumpkin gets her dinner, i get to sit down at my laptop and end up doing one of the following: address my inboxes, check Batty Cat's inbox and do random work. by 6:30 i am assembling dinner in my head.
  7:00 - 7:30       LP wakes up, time to assemble dinner
  7:30 - 8:30       dinner time
  8:30 - 9:30       random chores, random play
  9:30 - 10:00     LP's bedtime routine of bath, some books/play and bottle. if i am lucky, BBB does this and i can go back to my laptop.
10:00 - 12:00      laptop time. and here i end up randomly surfing


i have two things i need to do: 


1) i need to block the random chores together to free up more time so i can 
2) get longer computer hours so i can get real work done. 


in the past year, the short slots of sitting at my laptop rarely results in serious work. i am theslowtostartandcanfinishwitharelishkind. there are things i actually want to do and am starting to resent household chores in a serious manner. i'd rather play with LP than do another chore. i'd rather make things than do another chore. i'd rather sort our my photos than do another chore. i'd rather write than do another chore. now tell that to the me who did not have any househelp after age 7 and did not mind household chores. see what she says. argument with the selves. started last year.  



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