{"id":2788,"date":"2009-09-23T08:15:46","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T15:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=2788"},"modified":"2009-09-23T08:15:46","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T15:15:46","slug":"the-hours-in-my-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=2788","title":{"rendered":"The hours in my days"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I love that I have been able to link my Twitter account and my blog together.\u00c2\u00a0 Now you all can see what I’m thinking\/saying throughout the day.\u00c2\u00a0 But I do feel a bit guilty about it too.\u00c2\u00a0 But to be honest, there is just no time.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, I haven’t worked out in almost two weeks now due to that issue.\u00c2\u00a0 Where does my time go?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, I decided to figure it out.<\/p>\n

I sleep about 8 hours a night.\u00c2\u00a0 I realize that makes me pretty unique in today’s world.\u00c2\u00a0 But since being diagnosed with Sleep Apnea and able to sleep at night again, I really try to go to bed and wake up at decent hours.\u00c2\u00a0 I will never again let myself ever get so messed up from lack of good sleep.<\/p>\n

So 24 minus 8 is 16.\u00c2\u00a0 16 hours to do everything else.<\/p>\n

I work for about 4 hours a day.\u00c2\u00a0 12 hours left.<\/p>\n

Homeschooling takes about 4 hours a day all together.\u00c2\u00a0 8 hours left.<\/p>\n

Housework, including cooking, cleaning up, bills, etc takes about … ok, this is hard.\u00c2\u00a0 But I’m going to round up to 4 hours as that is the minimum on laundry day.\u00c2\u00a0 4 hours left.<\/p>\n

I am careful to get 1 hour of knitting and Bible study in a day – not at the same time (well, the prayer time I can knit too but the Bible study – nope, haven’t figured that one out yet! lol). I will not give up either as they are both very necessary to my well-being.\u00c2\u00a0 3 hours left.<\/p>\n

Entertainment.\u00c2\u00a0 Ok – this could be my problem.\u00c2\u00a0 I probably spend about 2 hours a night hanging out with my husband and watching tv (and knitting – I *did* figure that out and I feel less guilty about this down time).\u00c2\u00a0 1 hour left.<\/p>\n

OK…there is my one hour of working out.\u00c2\u00a0 I can do it.\u00c2\u00a0 But in the day-to-day of my life, there is just no downtime.\u00c2\u00a0 After my Bible study in the morning, it’s go-go-go-go-go.\u00c2\u00a0 I can often sit down with my knitting in that sweet spot of about 4pm each day and Hubs will get home and we can chat for a few minutes.\u00c2\u00a0 Then it’s up to cook dinner and go-go-go-go-go again.<\/p>\n

I think I need to feel about my work out like I do about my Bible study and knitting.\u00c2\u00a0 It needs to be very necessary.\u00c2\u00a0 And, it’s just not.\u00c2\u00a0 Do I hate myself so I won’t take care of myself?\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t hate working out – in fact, I love our gym and the high I get afterward.\u00c2\u00a0 But I still struggle with doing it all.\u00c2\u00a0 And things for me come last.<\/p>\n

You know what?\u00c2\u00a0 I’m going to go wake up the boys to watch their sister and I’m going to the gym right now.\u00c2\u00a0 Why sit here on my big bum and whine about not having time and just go do it<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

I hope I don’t pay for it later when I’m horribly behind!<\/p>\n

Ok – stopping and I’m leaving.\u00c2\u00a0 Really, I’m going!!<\/p>\n

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