My own personal vortex of time

I have not been managing my time well recently.  For a while I had an excuse, but that’s all over now.  For the past week, I’ve gotten to the end of the day wondering what, exactly, I have accomplished.

I see many areas in the house that need my attention.  For one thing, new arrivals for the store are waiting to be put away and their boxes broken down & recycled.  Right now they’re piled-up in the kitchen, of all places.  Laundry is another issue.  Most of it is clean, but little of it is actually put away.  And dare I admit that my Christmas tree is still up?  I’m considering decorating it with construction paper hearts and calling it a Valentine’s decoration.  Somehow that seems easier than packing the poor thing up.

Creatively, I’m feeling frustrated and missing my sewing machine.  Last thing I sewed was a coffee cup cozy for my sister for Christmas, and my fabric has been stashed away ever since.  I got my polymer clay fix a few weeks ago, so I’m not feeling a real pull towards that right now.  Knitting has become my main creative outlet, and that’s really only because it’s portable, and I can sit on the couch with it after the kids go to bed during my regularly-scheduled evening downtime.  Not that I don’t enjoy the knitting.  I do.  I am having such fun learning new techniques – I made my first cable yesterday, as you can see from the photo. (That’s a pair of Dashing in progress.)

Right now I’ve got a growing itch to sew something, but I find it hard to justify making a crafty mess when I haven’t cleaned up the other messes around here.  And I haven’t cleaned up the other messes because I am somehow being sucked into a time vortex during the day.  Before I know it, it’s time for the kids to come home and I haven’t managed to shower!  (which reminds me, I’d better do that today…)  I don’t even know what I want to make.  I just know I want to be back behind the machine sooner than later.

So, yeah, time management issues abound here.  I know a few good strategies, I just have to actually employ them.

I guess that’s where I’m headed after this blogging break – to dust off Remember the Milk, update my abandoned task lists, and put some order back into my life.  Oh, and I should probably take that shower, too.