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Susan Dennis‘ Mom had a great saying: “You know, it just takes time to live!”

Spot on.

This has been a really good week, but I’ve come to the conclusion that I apparently need to cut sleep out of the equation or figure out a way to add more hours to the day. Hey, if Hugo Chavez can just change Venezuela’s time zone by 30 minutes, the US should be able to add 6 hours on to the day for me. For someone that supposedly does nothing at all, I seem to have a lot to do and not enough time to do it.

First, there is the market - this pays the bills and I am completely engaged from 9:30 to 4:00. (It makes my brain happy.) Then there is research after hours. Studying. Errands. Cooking. Eating. Attempting (and failing) to keep this house under control. Reading for fun. Contemplating the meaning of life. Exercise. Some quality couch potato time with the TiVo*. Baseball. (Until hockey is back.) Socializing. Spending time outdoors. The occasional road trip. Keeping up with folks on LJ, the Stockpickr forums, BT, and a near metric ton of RSS feeds**. Writing. Fighting writer’s block. Trying to figure out what the dog’s paw wave means today.***

Just doesn’t seem to be quite enough time for all that *and* sleep.

I’ve always found it interesting (and mildly frustrating) that life will manage to find a way to fill all the time that you have. Lord knows in the past year and a half, I have never once thought “I’m bored” nor have I had to actively look for something to do. It’s also a great way to find out where your priorities really lie - and looking about the house, it would seem that housework doesn’t quite make the “high priority” list.

It’s so very easy for the low priority stuff to just fall off the radar, cause I am truly a slacker at heart. Gotta unslack a little this coming week and slam a few more things in the week that have got to get done. Haircut. Cooking some real food. (I’ve been greatly lacking in ideas & inspiration the past couple weeks.) Take a flamethrower to the living room. Restock the wine rack. Laundry. OMG, laundry. Get car to dealership for recall repair.

Now, we’ll see this time next week how much of that actually gets accomplished or if sleep gets in the way.

* Guilty summer pleasures: Burn Notice, Deadliest Catch & Dirty Jobs (or pretty much anything w/Mike Rowe involved)
** 202 feeds - ranging from news, food, cooking, to comics, photography and cute overload. Probably too many, but I enjoy reading them all.
*** It changes. Constantly.