Today I’m feeling rather proud of myself….a little pat on the back….a bit of positive self-talk.  Since we had a showing for the house this weekend, it’s still relatively spotless.  The laundry is completely caught up…not an easy feat in this house.  The checkbook is balanced and the bills are paid (well, most of them)…a job I dread doing.  And I’m even showered, dressed, with hair done and hold your breath for this one…make-up on…before Noon!  I know…impressed, aren’t you?  Well, even if you aren’t, I’m pretty pumped up about such achievements so early in the day.

I was actually walking around the house trying to figure out what I’m behind on and what needs to be done.  I mean, there is always something that needs to be taken care of.

Cleaning…check.

Laundry…check.

Kids fed….check.

Personal hygiene….check.

I’m finally done with the Twilight series (an obsession that I sustained for about two weeks until I got through all 4 books) so I don’t have a book to turn to either.  I even have some of the “B” list items taken care of.  The school year schedule has been added to the calender.  I have the kids’ school supply lists condensed onto my own spreadsheet already.  No, I’m not giving in and shopping yet, but I always combine the lists onto a master sheet to make shopping easier.  Anal you say.  Yes, but it’s a must when you are wrestling with other moms in the isle of Wal-Mart over the last 3 non-perforated, wide-rule, spiral- bound, red notebooks…and I need all 3!  Oh, you may think I’m joking, but these damn lists are that particular…and God forbid I send the kids to school with the wrong color notebook….I wouldn’t want to give their teachers a heart-attack if my son pulls out college ruled paper because I didn’t wrestle hard enough with that mom at Wal-Mart.

Now where was I?  Oh, nothing to do….that’s right!  Then the light went on…MY BLOG!  OMG my BLOG!  I have not posted in days…panic set in and I ran for my computer as if it was on fire.  The days seem to run one into the next lately so things I did a week ago (like writing a new post) seems like just yesterday.  Days, weeks, and even months go by and I fail to notice the time moving swiftly by me.  So here I am…blogging about not blogging!  No really…the point of this post is to focus on time.  Does time fly by this fast for the rest of the world, or is it only me?

I seem to lose track of time with many things in my life.  I will wonder why the toilets look so gross because I could swear I just scrubbed them.  I question how in the world I have so much laundry to do because didn’t I just have it all caught up merely a day ago?   Summer just started so it can’t possibly be time to start thinking about the school year again, can it?  And the dentist is already sending me a reminder for my 6 month cleaning…didn’t I just see him last week?  Well, clearly I could carry on with example after example of how I always seem to be a day or two behind the rest of the world, but I’m sure you get my point.

It’s frustrating.  It’s terribly annoying.  And it means that I have to go mow the lawn again because apparently it was not just yesterday that I completed that task as the city is now sending me a “noxious weeds” notice!  ;o)