March Madness
I feel like I want to open every post with how I don’t know where the previous month has gone. However authentic that feels, it’s also boring as hell.
Alas, February is gone, and with it went a whole bunch of ridiculously late nights and working weekends. A big project that I’m on missed its January 31st deadline so I spent most of February working every.single.night during any free pockets of time and most weekends. It was insane.
A few years ago, I read 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think by Laura Vanderkam, and in the book she suggested tracking your time for a few weeks to see how much time you really have and how you were actually using it. In 2015, I started tracking just to see what my schedule looked like, and I have not stopped since. I’ve been tracking my time in 15 minute increments for almost four years now. That’s probably a discussion for another post.
My point here was that I had almost nothing tracked for February. However, using a combination of my Fitbit tracker that tells me when I worked out and when I went to sleep, and my Google calendar that tells me when we had kid sports and practices, I could basically fill in the whole month in one try. Every spare moment was marked with a W (work). Ugh.
I’m so happy March is here, but a little depressed that I have no recollection of February. I know the kids and I had a three-day weekend in there, a snow day due some crazy weather, and we had below-zero temperatures for most of it. I worked and worked only to find our deadline missed again (fortunately not my responsibility) and now it’s been moved to fall. Hubby and I found some time for a Valentine’s date, which was nice.
On the project front, my house is still a disaster, zero projects have been completed, and my cleaning schedule remains fluid. My first round of the 12 Week Year is coming to an end, and I haven’t made as much progress as I’d like to on my goals. I’m really hoping with this work slowdown, I can focus and make my house and organization a priority.
Anyone else feel like 2019 is slipping away?
