I had drinks with a friend last night and we were talking about how we both wanted to be stay at home moms right now, but without the babies. It just feels like there's only so many hours in the day and it's really hard to do all the things we want to do. For me that's writing, getting my dog t-shirt business off the ground and exercising.
This week I used my morning time to exercise and didn't get a lot of writing done. Both exercising and writing are really important to me, but the writing has to come first, I need to first figure that into the schedule and then work the other stuff around it. Although the bikram yoga in the morning is kind of amazing and makes me feel really good and powerful and chilled out about the stress dome that is my workplace. And I can't do hot yoga after work because by then I will have thought of 20 reasons to talk myself out of it. I think what I need to do is to clear out some after work time - right now I have every night of the week booked to hang out with friends (although Monday was a PR meeting for the shirts and tonight is a meeting for the literary journal).
So here's the plan for next week: Writing on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings, hot yoga on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Any dog stuff, in terms of the website, PR research, blog etc. will have to get done at night.
To the bugs in my apartment: I'm sorry I called you roaches when I spoke to my landlady. The truth is I really don't know what the hell you are and I shouldn't just assume. Clearly, from your reaction to the boric acid i threw down, you are not roaches. In your lack of charisma and sense of humor you most resemble a youngish Bob Saget.