How did I get here?

I’ve just read Jimi and Mandz’z's’z (how the hell do you pluralise a name ending in Z?) last posts. It’s led me to thinking about time.

Generally speaking me and Mandz have a reasonably amount in common. A drive to get fit. Weenies. In particular 10 year old female weenies with attitude. Divorcees (i.e. previously married to people who are… well… fill in the blanks). But this is where we differ.

Maz sits here and tells us that she has to Find Busy. She looks back on her busy busy life and wonders what happened to it. I sit back and think about my life as a student (at Uni straight after school, not tech later in life). I spent most days slacking off, sitting on the couch at home watching Oprah or Ricki Lake or some other crap and eating pies, avoiding uni work and getting bad grades. “What happened to that?”, I ask myself. It died. Most of the time I’m dead glad for that because I was really a waste of space back then. Now I actually acheive stuff. But when I get to Sunday night and I’m still tired from the week before, I begin to wonder at what point you decide you’re doing too much.

As an example, here’s a typical day for me.

  • Fall out of bed at 0555hrs (Mon, Wedn, Fri only, other days it’s 0635)

  • At gym by 0610hrs (as above with variations on days)

  • Achingly (M/W/F) sitting at the breakfast bar for my first coffee by 7am

  • Dropping Tails off at school 0750hrs (on a good day)

  • Morning shift at work 0800 – 1330hrs

  • Lunch hour – do some work for Peak Geek or for ATC for an hour

  • Arvo shift 1430 – 1700hrs

  • Home to share duties of making dinner/feeding boy/bathing boy.

  • Charf dinner and clean up 1900-2000hrs

  • Drag out Prometheus to do some more work (depending on what telly is on) 2000-whenever.

Only diff is Thursday night where we do the ATC thing, leaving home at 1730 and getting home around 2230 for a cuppa then bed. Or Friday night where it’s greasies and a beer and family time. And weekends? Well we’re home owners… so if I’m not working on PG or ATC stuff, it’s home maintenance time.

Slacking time? 0-2hrs a week max.

Tired as hell? You bet.

Satisfied that I’m actually doing something with my life? Yahuh.

Yearning to go back to being a couch potato? Only semi-occasionally.

So it’s not that I’m ignoring your request Jimi. I’m just prioritising… badly perhaps in your eyes, but I am. Bill payers and Cadets come first after family… and it’s not that I don’t love you all… I just don’t have the time to show it!! I’m actually REALLY embarrased to admit that this post has bumped my last entry from the top 12. Sad but true. Especially with Larry being AWOL and Slink being too busy partying to write much.

God I’m such a slacker… no wait… God I’m just soooo busy!!

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2 Responses to “How did I get here?”

  1. Jimi says:
    February 21, 2008 at 22:18

    Hey Gert, I completely understand! I hardly even noticed you hadn’t replied to my email – seriously…..no tears at all……LOL. Nah, when you are on holiday or not busy with work, it’s the little things that play on your mind :)

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  2. Mandz says:
    February 22, 2008 at 13:49

    Hmm, lets recap. Gem is travelling, Larry is awol, Slink is partying at uni, Bren is very busy…WHO does that leave to hold up the site?? Muahahaha..

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