Limits
This is one of those weeks when I'm pretty sure I can't do it all. I mean, I can hold it together pretty well, most of the time. But this week just might break me. If I had time, I'd probably just sit down, stare slack-jawed into the middle distance and drown my sorrows in black licorice. #1. My computer broke. I don't know how bad it is, but I'm a worrier so I assume it's pretty bad. Like all-my-artwork-and-business-data-lost bad. #2. My family is cranky. It's been hot and muggy here for weeks and we're all Over. It. Plus, school started up again and our sleep schedules are screwy. #3. I work too much. I've got this 9-to-5 job you see, and it's never really 9-5. And also? Life doesn't fit around 9-5 so well. Things you can't do before 9 or after 5, generally: go to the bank, go to the library, talk to a teacher, get your oil changed, go to the post office, take your computer to the computer-fixing guy or have your kid fitted for a cello. Monday looked like this:- Get kids up, dressed, ready to walk to school, leave with grama
- Work all day
- Rush home
- Unplug broken computer and deliver across town (north) to the computer guy
- Drive back across town and out south to take care of my aunt's farm (feed chickens, cats and cows, water garden, pick vegetables)
- Drive back home
- Fix dinner
- Take son to Mandatory Parent Orientation for Students Interested in Orchestra
- Sign up for instrument fitting for Wednesday, at a time I know I cannot possibly make hapen
- Return home, eat licorice, put kids to bed, crash
I never quite worked out how you managed to do all you do generally, and that’s without suicidal computers added in!
You’re such a talented artist and all round awesome lady, I hope so much that you can give up your 9-5 job and just paint for a living one day soon.
Don’t worry about your computer. Even if it did crash, there are quite a few methods that can be tried to get the data off of the computer and they are not even outrageously expensive (though I realize that’s a relative term). You’ll get all your stuff back and then you will buy an external hard drive with a terabyte of memory and back up your files. Often. Like I should have after my computer crashed the first time. 🙂
Sad fact: I actually have a 1TB external hard drive connected to my computer and everything. Just never backed up. Learned my lesson!