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January 08, 2006
Time.....
For a second there I couldn’t work out where all this time was coming from. I seem to have made a suspiciously significant dent on my ‘to read’ book pile, (Orlando, Rebecca etc) found the time to cook some non processed hearty dinners (Please be impressed that tomorrow I’m planning a Lebanese Feast, is it significant that I just typed 'feat' rather than 'feast'?) caught up with some sleep, planned some improvements and new scenes for my NaNo novel and I’ve even found time to watch a bit of TV (Three Men and a Boat, Balderdash and Piffle and rather embarrassingly I have been running up the phone bill trying to win ten grand on Deal or No Deal) and catch up with some stuff I videoed over the Christmas break. (Mrs Miniver down; Under the Greenwood Tree and Gandhi still to go.) The only thing I haven’t done that I’ve been meaning to do since before Christmas, is sort out the toys in Littleone’s room, throwing away all the broken crap and giving away the stuff she has grown out of, so that there is actually room for all the new stuff but who can blame me that is a heinous task, in my to do list it appears just below ‘extracting my eye balls with a white-hot poker.’
For weeks I’ve been wondering what the hell is going on. Have they secretly slipped a few extra hours into the day without telling me? Has Littleone worked out how to spend time in the corner, amusing herself? Or have I finally after 30 years achieved the ultimate efficiency of multi tasking?
And then I worked it out; it’s the Internet. Ever since I killed the desktop we have been working on this prehistoric laptop, which is tediously slow and cannot cope with complicated graphics, some sites are unreadable and others take weeks to load. So I have been limiting my Internet access to once a day and then only the bare essentials. I don’t think I realised until now how much of my day was spent ‘just checking’ this or that or ‘I wonder if I can get that cheaper on ebay’ etc etc. I think in recent weeks THIS is where I’ve been saving my time.
So I have mixed feelings about getting a brand new computer this week, part of me is salivating with excitement and another can’t help viewing it as some sort of ball and chain. There is some research I need to do, and I’m looking forward to visiting more than a couple of blogs a day and I would like to be able to view photos properly, as well as upload my own again but this extra time has left me feeling a little more fulfilled, so something tells me I’ll be cutting down on the mindless unimportant stuff (just as soon as I’ve discovered what that was) that seemed to be taking up hours of my day.
The question is will I be able to resist the temptation of checking for the hundredth time if I’ve been outbid on that oh-so vital Ebay item, once logging on is made easy again?
Posted by purple elephant at January 8, 2006 06:40 PM