Comments on: Plans, shmans: Why I’m not getting anything done

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:06:29 +0000

And now we’re at 20.

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:16:38 +0000

So I am commenter #19, so either someone needs to comment right after me or I will have to comment again. We need nice numbers, divisible by 5:) I would love to offer great advice, but I was in the same cycle a couple weeks ago. Then I remembered something I read in the book, “The Athlete’s Way” that says you need so many sleep cycles for your brain to function at its potential. He says 7.5 hours is the least amount of sleep you should get. It completes the fourth sleep cycle, or something?! Anyway, I started going to bed earlier and trying to get more done in the morning. Staying up until 2 will wear you down eventually. All of this is coming from the woman who is avoiding her morning workout by checking blogs AT THIS VERY MOMENT:) Good luck, Mel!

By: Yvonne

Yvonne — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:59:23 +0000

Cook your husband breakfast in the morning? Seriously, have never done that either. He gets home at about 7:30 PM, and many times he is finding his own dinner, as I didn’t cook – no one around here to eat at dinnertime anyway. I’m a terrible wife and mother,too. I hope your internet job pays really well, as it hardly seems worth it to not have time for much else….I got tired just reading your post. (and for the record, I’m not looking for anything pithy, amusing or thought provoking – just someone real, like me)

By: Tess

Tess — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:55:38 +0000

I am so with you here! I get the boys to school and often go back to bed. Dh gets them ready for school. I have no routines and I’m not even cooking dinner. Must. Pull. Myself. Together.

By: linda vujnov

linda vujnov — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:57:41 +0000

Should I be worried about you. Is sounds like too much work, really. Sleep is good.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:24:40 +0000

I’m the same way about multiples of 5. I don’t like to stop the microwave on a non-multiple-of-5. You know, if I just hit the “minute” button, but the food doesn’t need a whole minute, I can’t ever stop it on 17 or 11 or 3 … must be multiples of 5. So cool that someone else has the same quirk!! [:-)
Oh, and I’m an Idaho gal who ALMOST never cooks her husband breakfast OR packs him a lunch. Incidentally, that has been a source of marital discord over the years.
I hope you get some good sleep today. [:-)
Rachel in Idaho

By: Allie

Allie — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:04:20 +0000

Im number 13! and the computer/ email/ blogs takes up waaaay too much of my time so I dont get things done. kinda like an addiction. I need an intervention.

By: Julana

Julana — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:01:43 +0000

Why don’t you make your teenagers cook supper and clean up? Home Ec.

By: MissKris

MissKris — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:15:32 +0000

PS….she sounds a lot like me, too. Scary thought!

By: MissKris

MissKris — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:15:04 +0000

Esther…especially since I now know you’re RETIRED…there is NO excuse for you not to have a blog!!! If you’re anything like Mel…and I can sense that you are by reading your comments…well, get those fingers TYPING, girl!

(Mel, please pass this on to your mom, haha!)