Had me a blast….

Well, I was having a blast, and then I decided I wanted a new kitchen floor.  I think we do the strangest things for money.  I think I’ve done a strange thing for money…put myself into a stressful situation.  As if I didn’t already have enough on my plate this summer – house projects, school projects, and just relaxing – I added a temporary 7-week job totally unrelated to my August-May career.

Now my daily house projects are slipping away from me, I’m tired (all the time), and I feel that I’m loosing grip on my school projects.  It’s been a week on this temporary summer job, and I need to know how to get the organization back that I had at one point.

One good thing about this temporary job is that I am able to get some work done on my dental assisting school projects, the one bad thing is it’s your typical 8 hour a day job and when I get done at 5pm I’m even too tired to cook dinner.  How do people do this 8 hour a day thing…how did I used to do this?  Has teaching for one academic year really made me unable to work a 40 hour work week?  Trust me though – teaching is more than a 40 hour a week job – even after I leave the college I have work I have to get done at home.   A big problem is I feel there is no place for me to do this at home.  I used to have a desk in our family room, but that room got too cluttered.  I tried using the dining room, but that room tends to become a dumping ground and the dining room table IS NOT an adequate desk – plus there is no storage in there and when we have people over I have to move all my stuff out so we can entertain.  My husband promised me he’d share his home office – but that room is about as big as our walk-in closet and shoving 2 people in there just isn’t going to happen.  Our guest room, viable option except that it needs to be a guest room as well.

I’ll stop my complaining now and get on to figuring out how to work around this problem…first I need to get right with the want I laid on myself in taking this summer temp job…a new kitchen floor will be totally worth it in the end, especially if I can also get new family room carpet/flooring out of it too!