A girl can only do so much

Here's a look at my typical day:

6:00 a.m. Wake Up, take a shower
6:15 a.m. Wander around, find something to wear, pick out clothes, dry my hair, watch Good Morning Oklahoma
6:50 a.m.  Eat the egg that dad makes for me every morning. Add some sort of protein like deli turkey and salsa ( I literally eat this almost every morning)
7:00 Decide that make up is overrated. Might do it at work. Make lunch and snacks
7:10 pack work out bag, try to remember my phone, exchange pleasantries w/the family
7:25 Hit the road to go to work
(none of the above is necessarily true, I'm late almost every day)
8:00 ish arrive at work, do opening the office type stuff, get updated on what's going on in the world (Facebook....)
8:30-12:00 Either work on work stuff or work on my thesis
12:00 Work through lunch on my thesis, run a wedding errand, or work out (I'll let you guess which one wins the most)
1:00 Work on thesis more. Through out the day I answer the phones, answer millions of questions, and sign patients in (amongst lots of other small daily tasks)
6:00 Rush to the tanning salon (when they're open... small towns!)
6:30 Eat something. So. Hungry.
7:00 sit on my bed and do some sort of wedding task while watching prime time TV
9:30 Try to wind down to sleep
By 10:15- out like a light
Then we do it all again.

Looks really boring. It's not because I have so many tasks to complete. All the tiny things add up. Every minute of my day is accounted for. It's getting old. I feel bad for taking "me" time. I think of the minutes I could be dedicating to my thesis (for example, right now). I'm overwhelmed. Not like cry spontaneously, type of overwhelmed, but I'm having a little bit of a hard time keeping up. Trying to exercise and be healthy is thrown in there too.

Lent is upon us. I'm not catholic, but I like the idea of making a 40 day sacrifice. It makes sense and just seems like good practice. In the past year, I've given up a lot of vices. Don't drink pop, drink very little caffiene, eating whole grains, drink rarely ( and let's face it, my bachelorette party is next week, and then I have another one the week after that. Yeah I'm cool and get to have 2 bachelorettes. I'm also embarassed easily about stuff like that so look forward to a funny post), I consume very little sugar. What to do?? I'm sooo not perfect, but I'm not giving up facebook or my phone or something crazy. I like the concept, but I need to be realistic.

I decided what I'm going to do. Remember my post a while back about remembering Sundays? Well I have been doing a much better job since that post. But I'm going all the way for Lent. Sundays are relax days. Sundays I reflect on my blessings. Sundays I spend time with my family. Here's to Sundays.

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