Get organized

I think this is as good as it gets. My main problem is that I want to stick to too much of a schedule and then I get all whopperjawed when I lose that schedule. This morning, I didn’t have time to write or do Japanese or play the piano…And I won’t have time this afternoon (uh, time to use 43t trumps all of the above!) let alone to do the things I normally do in the afternoon or read. Real life sometimes steps in.
But I think I am on the right track to managing all that and not getting stressed out when I don’t get to practice Japanese, say…or whatever.
The bottom line is that I don’t think I’ll become DISorganized if I call this goal complete…

I feel like I’m sinking. When I had a newborn and a 3 year old, I didn’t feel like I do now: barely keeping a hold on each day, head above the proverbial water. Every day, Sophie brings home a backpack full of newsletters, fundraiser info, homework…all things I* have to read and do because *she can’t! She’s only 5! She can’t read!
And lest you think that I settle on the couch all day to read books to Will and watch the Today show (I hate the Today show), or perhaps write the next great American novel let me tell you, it ain’t happenin’! I’m not sure this goal should be as much about me getting organized as me being able to say no and being able to get some productive time to myself!
Oh…I’m complaining…I’ve just got to get organized…

are starting to get our little routine down. But there is still a lot of stuff, new stuff, to do…There are 3 piles of paperwork, newsletters and homework papers Sophie’s teacher sent home…just from yesterday! That’s an evening’s reading in itself! (We got in bed last night and I picked up one of those piles and Todd picked up his library book…hmmm…this is why I never finish a library book…)
Anyway, just getting going in the morning 15 minutes earlier helps out a lot and with Will napping in the afternoon, I can get all kinds of things done…

and before Sophie even heads to school! I pick up the Japanese books when I have the time, I’ve been writing in my journal every day, I stay off 43t a little better (although here I am!) and I still get those basic things done that I want to get done…I’m hoping that it will be fine-tuned when Sophie does get into a school routine.

today I WILL:

dress my children (after this entry…)
exercise
start laundry
do my errands
clean up this desk!
make lunch/put Will down for nap
write
plan dinner

after that, it’s easy. Todd’ll be home from work, dinner will be relaxing and we’ll watch a movie…

sure.

doing well on this one, either. I feel too often that my days get away from me and I have accomplished nothing. Today is library day and then Will has to go get his stitches out…
I wanted to try to organize my days more so that I’d have more time for me…but I still see myself wasting away all this time…!
Sometimes, though, I think I’m so organized that I spend all my time getting organized and too little time doing what I actually wanted to do…

I’ve written in the morning in the time I’d usually be on 43things…
then I play around on 43things in the afternoon…
Actually I’m tired but I feel more productive…so far.

Because I AM over-organized, I rush around all morning, getting things done, fasterfaster, making lists in my head of all the things left to do and then when it’s time to sit down and do the things I actually wanted to do, I’m exhausted. So I need to reprioritize.
That morning I wrote so much before the kids were awake was a good one. I felt that I’d done a lot that day. I don’t remember what else I DID do, only that it seemed like a lot b/c I’d already written so much before breakfast. But the point is, if I get done first thing, the thing I really WANT to do, NEED to do, have been SAYING I’m going to do, then the rest will fall into place afterward…right?

Everything falls into place now but I think I am too organized. I don’t get done anything fun…

what you can do when you just get up and do it! Pick up the phone, put away the toys, fold the laundry, run the vacuum, ask the question, do it do it do it.
Then there’s always more.
And I collapsed in the afternoon…