Resolutions

One of my Facebook friends asked yesterday what her friends' New Year's resolutions were this year. Hers was to lose weight by eating more food that is good for her and also tastes good.

I have a similar goal along with spending more time with my son and spending more time writing about something other than real estate. My challenge, of course, is that I need more time to spend more time doing all of those things. There just aren't enough hours in the day to fit it all in.

I already squeeze as many hours out of the day as I possibly can. I get up at 4:30 every morning during the work week to go to the gym, so I've managed to train myself to survive on only five hours of sleep, since I go to bed at 11:30.

I get home from work between 4:45 and 5:30 and spend the next six or seven hours writing, checking e-mail, cooking dinner, reading to and playing with my son, getting ready for the next work day and writing some more. During all of that I also manage to check in on Facebook, ask my spouse about his day, pay bills, read and sometimes do a little housecleaning. Thankfully, I have the world's most supportive husband, who lets me sneak in as much writing as I can.

But the writing is going so slowly with the end so far off in the distance that I'm trying to figure out how to fit even more hours in the day. I can't quit my job. I can't get any less sleep. And there's definitely no way I can spend any less time with my husband and child.

So, here it is approaching 6:30 and it's time to start thinking about making dinner, when I really want to work on another writing project instead. If anybody figures out how to cram more hours into a day, survive on no sleep, create clones that can cook and clean, or earn enough money to erase the need to work for someone else, let me know.