Two people in the last week have said to me 'I don't know how you fit it all in! You do so much!'
Both were in response to me telling them about sewing my own pants, and I got to wondering (again) whether I do actually do a lot of things, or whether I just talk about things a lot. Hmm. Back in 2011 on an ancient blog I made a list of things I don't do. Some things have changed, and some haven't. I still don't iron clothes. We have an iron - it's electric, but not a steam iron - and I have no idea where it is. I try to keep on top of the main living areas of the house but the rest of it is literally a building site. I'm slightly better at remembering birthdays, but I still have a small pile of Christmas presents waiting to go in the post, and I didn't send any cards at all. I barely grew anything in the garden last year. I'd like to say I don't watch much TV, but I started watching Call the Midwife right from the very first episode over Christmas and less than a month later I'm well into Series 8. I don't think I'm particularly unusual, but I have enough of these 'you do so much!' conversations that it makes me feel like I'm doing something different to the people I'm talking to. I do sometimes have to remind them that I don't have children - and I often marvel that people with children get anything else done at all. I do work full time - there's a two hour commute whenever I got to the office, but I often work at home at least two days a week. Even though these conversations are face to face, and I don't actually use social media that much, I wonder whether they're a symptom of the kinds of things we see on social media - comparing our outsides to other people's insides. I'm just as guilty of it as anyone else, and I wonder whether when I waffle on about gardening, running, plastering, flute playing, sock knitting, underwear sewing and the like, I give the impression I'm doing all of those things every day. Because clearly I'm not. I haven't even picked up my flute since before Christmas. I sewed six pairs of pants, and then ran out of fabric and stopped. I bought some plaster in November and it's still sat in the bag. I often have a brief flurry of doing something, and then don't do it again for quite a while while I get enthusiastic about something else. Anyway, I thought I'd keep track of what I was doing this week, to see if there's a pattern to my days. This is something I often do at work (to keep me on track) but rarely do at home, although it seems I did do it for a month or so back in August 2013. I'm not sure how much detail I'll go into, and I'll probably post at the end of the week rather than every day, but let's see what happens. And now I'd best get my act together - I was planning to leave for work twenty minutes ago...
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