Scheduling life… January 24, 2007
Posted by spacemom in : Life...otherwise , trackbackAs I have gotten older, I have discovered that we need to schedule life far more than I ever wanted to. I recently joined a gym. It is close to home and I want to work out more than the 2 times a week I do at work. I really want to tone parts of my body and lose that extra 10 lbs that I carry for no apparent reason except for my love affair with Godiva and Pastry.
However, I can’t figure out times to work out. I am going to see if I can do it tonight and Friday. Maybe on Bathnights I can scoot out, workout, and be back while the girls are watching TV. Bath can take a long time, and I could easily check out the 22 minute X-press workout which is supposed to help you work on 8 machines and teach you the correct positions and how to work all of the major muscle groups. Then twice a week, I could do my aerobic exercises at the gym at work and slowly, I might get the body I desire.
When did life get so tough? I have a great job in terms of time. Only 1 week per 4 do I need to be on call (granted, that is up from 1 in 6 weeks), and I don’t have to be in the office at a particular time. I do sometimes need to work late at night or on a weekend, but hey, it’s still a great deal of freedom.
I need to schedule times for lunch, for haircuts, for exercise, for reading, for bathroom breaks (just kidding, I can now go to the bathroom without an entourage, most days), for dinner and for sleep!
I remember the good old days, in college. I would wake around 10, go to bed around 2. I scheduled my classes at a reasonable time and then fit my homeworks and assignments around that. It was easy. But maybe
it was because it was college. When you are in the pseudo-real world. Where your freedom is tempered by the responsibility to the tuition payer.
I have a lot more freedom in some senses. And even less time to do things.
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It’s tough when everything you want to do means getting someone to watch the kids and means more time away from them. I’ve been needing a dentist appointment for ages, but there is always something else I need sitters for and then I feel bad if I’ve been away too many times that week. And I’m a SAHM! I imagine when you are a working mother there is even less time and more guilt with being away during non-work hours!
The only good news I can say is that it won’t last much longer…they’ll have their own social schedules before you know it!
That’s when I find it gets even busier Mariah! Then you’re trying to fit it whatever you’re trying to accomplish around kids’ after-school activities, birthday parties, playdates, outtings and what have you. I think that modern life just has so many demands placed on us, both “must do’s” and “want to do’s” that they simply expand to fill the amount of time you’ve got, meaning you have to do a lot more scheduling, even down to scheduling in down-time. How ironic is that.