Yes ladies, I'm talking about multi-tasking. Well I am sick of multi-tasking today. People always ask me "how do you try to balance your business, being home with your kids, and keeping your day to day life moving" - Well the more I analyze, the more I realize the extent that my multi-tasking has gone to. And today at least, I'm sick of it. The RAM in my brain is a little backed up.
I woke up in the middle of the night to check on my little one who's had a fever and make sure she got her 2nd dose of motrin (because she has febrile seizures). I couldn't fall back asleep, but what did my brain decide to think about with it's spare time? Unique URL's that I should snatch up for my business in a market where someone is pirating my site name . . . So I got up and sent myself and email.I should have just stayed up all night since I had to wake up extra early to go and do a radio intervew, exchange my blackberry (which I can't stand), and grab some fruit smoothies for the family for breakfast. I figure we're battling colds, I might as well go get some fruity goodness to fight them off. While giving the kids a bath together this morning i started cleaning the bathroom and scrubbing the toilet, and then I took a quick shower myself (the shower is next to the tub less anyone think that I left them bathing alone ;). You have to do lots of things at once!
I ran errands this morning and returned phone calls while my kids were happily (and not so happily) listening to If You're Happy and You Know it. I dropped my computer off to MacDocs (I go there because I can park right next to the door and run and drop my computer inside with my kids in eye shot (3 feet away), ran to the post office, made a deposit - all the while returning phone calls.
I also had an appointment with our accountant today and had to edit an article last minute before a deadline to turn it in (which I did slyly during the meeting). The day continued on in simliar fashion. When I got home I made dinner (and sorted and paid bills in between steaming brocolli and cooking chicken), returned emails, made the neighborhood "phantom" treat (and door bell ditched it at someone's house) and wrote this blog entry. I wondered why my head hurt so bad by the end of the day. I don't think I sat down (except to drive, and talk, and hand out happy meals at the same time.) It's been one of those days! Tomorrow, I anticipate that I will not change out of my pajamas.
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