Thursday, January 29, 2009

AH!! Too many "clubs"

Sometimes I feel like everyone is out to make my life more complicated. It doesn't help that I have the sort of personality that feels as though I must say yes to everything. Actually, I may have to clarify that a little. I want to say yes. I love people, and I love to be involved with projects and clubs and people! 'Jen, would you play the piano for me at a talent show next week?' Yay! That sounds so fun! 'Would you be in charge of our family fitness challenge?' Yay! I love being in charge, and that sounds like such a worthy and needed and awesome project! 'Mrs. Jen, would you please send a few washed out gallon jugs and make some play dough for our a class project?' Of course I will! ....and on and on it goes. And quite honestly I have only (well, mostly) myself to blame for saying yes to too many things, and for volunteering when no one asks! ;)

BUT, as if I don't have enough to juggle with my house and children and various real life projects, I have discovered that the internet is also out to get me! In the two e-mail accounts I check regularly I have about 178 unread messages. (That is not including spam, and I spent at least half an hour reading and deleting today.) And in the one that I almost never check... hold on... 1726 unread messages, and 2203 in my spam folder. The last time I checked it was... last August, and most of it is garbage, but it's one more thing that needs to be taken care of.

I have 2 personal blogs and a family fitness blog. These are not a huge sorce of stress, I don't feel guilty when I don't keep updated on my personal blogs, but I want to write stuff that I never get around to, and that bugs me a little. There are also a list of things I want to write on the fitness blog that I haven't gotten to yet... And, I am rather behind on reading all of my friends' and families' blogs. Yesterday I sort-of caught up on two of them. One had stuff from before Halloween that I hadn't read, and the other friend had moved back to Utah, and I didn't even realize it. (I don't even know when they moved, I didn't go back that far!)

AND, when I started writing my blogs I felt like I was finally catching up to all of my internet-savvy friends, but I'm nowhere close! Now that I am connecting to everyone's various blogs I am getting all of these invites to Facebook and MySpace and Plaxo Pulse and who knows what else!

And, of course every store and web-site has a newsletter they want to send you...

Is there not ONE THING in my entire life that I can keep up with?!?