have more free time

today was a half day of school…but whats the point of only going for a few hours?? so i skipped! I slept in and had a good breakfast, talked with my cousin a bit before they left and then started my homework! I feel like I’m on a good start and its only 11 am. I want to go on a bikeride soon when I’m done w/ homework. I’m hoping to ride to Hilary’s house and then we can both ride to the beach. Then maybe go to the library because I miss reading for fun. Sometime today i need to go to companies to inquire about support for our 5k we’re putting together because my group is having a meeting tonight. I won’t be there though because i have my 2nd softball game at Lakewood tonight. So…not too much free time but thats only because I want to be doing my own thing, and I just have a lot of things I want to do!

i’ve started taking one day around the middle of the month and doing everything on my todo lists. it can make that day rather painful, but seems to be a good way of clearing the slate for the coming weeks.

I always keep myself too busy, and wish my entire routine consisted of waking up, creating art pieces (of any medium), and going back to bed.

I am most productive when I do not have limited time to get something done.

I have duties as a manager, as a husband, as a father, as a son as a friend.
All these I like and enjoy, but they don’t leave any “private time” that’s just for me and there are some many things I would love to do alone.

I am a fun loving person that likes to play guitar and hang out with friends

i have 2 dogs nemo and rex who i love very much i mis them when i go to work in the morning but when i get back they are there waiting!

too much to do too little time.

With college and all I never have any free time.I’m majoring in Forensic Science. Sometimes I even study on weekends.

yesterday’s frog was a phone call to a friend with whom i’ve been practicing tai chi. i decided that i have other things i’d rather do with the time i was spending traveling to her house. i had told myself it was an opportunity to do some walking and get some reading done on the train, but as i thought about going and all the things that would be left undone at home, i decided to call off our weekly appointment.

i hated to disappoint her, but i still feel rushed, even on my offline days. before i know it, it’s bedtime, and even simple things like filing away books and papers and groceries haven’t been done. my “days off” should be full of more possibilities, and i’d like to wake from them the next day with all the chores done around the house and a cleaner and lighter load starting the workday. i need to keep chopping and chopping down my commitments until i really feel free to choose what i do next, with no guilt for anything left undone.

the phrase “like a kid in summer” keeps running through my mind. sometimes, i have too many projects and too much structure to my days. i need to have days when i wake and look around for what i want to do. i usually already know what’s going to happen the night before, and all the spontaneity’s gone.

i’d like sometimes to recapture that feeling of august as boy, when i’d go find my best friend, and we’d sit around and make a plan.

one part of what i need is more ruthlessness with my todos. if i could throw out 80% of my plans and cut my lists down to something i could really handle in a reasonable time, there would be room for whatever comes next.

During the summer semester, I’m only taking two classes, probably.. so that will lighten the load a bit.. however the summer semester is 16 weeks worth of classes crammed into 10 weeks, so it won’t be that much lighter.

Hopefully this will free up a little time to go hiking once or twice.. spend more time with my son, my girlfriend, and work on a second album.

and actually get some homework done.

already, i’m making plans on spending my free time before i get it! ha.