{"id":184,"date":"2003-11-24T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-24T17:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/11\/24\/overextended\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:55:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:55:49","slug":"overextended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/11\/24\/overextended\/","title":{"rendered":"OVEREXTENDED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m feeling crazy busy, overextended and stressed from all my commitments. In short, perfectly <b>normal<\/b>. The cookies didn&#8217;t get baked last night, so I&#8217;m having to resort to the Rice Krispie Holly Bar recipe that I told <a href=\"http:\/\/carrieb.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">carrieb<\/a> about, and which I used 2 years ago, because otherwise I will have to show up with store-bought cookies and one cannot show up at a Christmas cookie exchange that was planned over 2 months ago BY <b>ME<\/b> with store-bought cookies. I&#8217;m a loser, I know. But I got some fun eyeshadow at the make-up demo yesterday, so who cares?<\/p>\n<p>And quit thinking, &#8220;But she never wears eyeshadow.&#8221;  I <b>KNOW<\/b>, OKAY?!<\/p>\n<p>My online life is taking over my real life in some troubling ways, and I need to figure out how to get the two back in balance. With a full-time job, 2 kids, a house and a husband, plus my commitments to the club, I can&#8217;t afford to spend as much time online as I have been doing lately. This makes me feel guilty and conflicted as I LIKE being online and I like the projects I&#8217;m involved in. Including this journal.<\/p>\n<p>I may be angsty but at least I don&#8217;t have to travel across half of middle-earth to get rid of a <a href=\"http:\/\/rosiesamfrodo.com\/~angst\/\">stupid ring<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The tile guy was supposed to show up this morning at 8:00 a.m., but at 8:45 still hadn&#8217;t made his appearance, so we left a note on the door and went to work. If Anders can&#8217;t get in touch with him, or he&#8217;s forgotten about his promise to tile our 2nd bathroom, then our hallway will still be a huge mess when our guests arrive for Thanksgiving dinner on Saturday (16 adults, 8 kids under 6, yes, I&#8217;m insane) and we&#8217;ll still only have 1 toilet.<\/p>\n<p>So, it&#8217;s Monday and if I don&#8217;t write these things down, I tend to forget them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Monday<\/b> create, print &#038; mail Martin&#8217;s birthday party invitations, grocery shopping, make rice krispie treats, watch West Wing<\/li>\n<li><b>Tuesday<\/b> massage (thank god!), print AWC stuff, pick up stuffing, sushi, AWC meeting<\/li>\n<li><b>Wednesday<\/b> parent-teacher conference for Karin, choir<\/li>\n<li><b>Thursday<\/b> bank loan appointment, wreath-making workshop<\/li>\n<li><b>Friday<\/b> buy turkeys, cook at least 2 of them, laundry, clean house<\/li>\n<li><b>Saturday<\/b> finish cleaning house, iron napkins, get ready for dinner party (remaining turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes)<\/li>\n<li><b>Sunday<\/b> collapse MUDDY AND EXHAUSTED!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m feeling crazy busy, overextended and stressed from all my commitments. In short, perfectly normal. The cookies didn&#8217;t get baked last night, so I&#8217;m having to resort to the Rice Krispie Holly Bar recipe that I told carrieb about, and which I used 2 years ago, because otherwise I will have to show up with store-bought cookies and one cannot show up at a Christmas cookie exchange that was planned over 2 months ago BY ME with store-bought cookies. I&#8217;m a loser, I know. But I got some fun eyeshadow at the make-up demo yesterday, so who cares? And quit&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6443,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/6443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}