Time Wasted pet peeve post 2

So the question is then, why does it bother me when other people waste my time?  I mean, I waste my time very effectively.  Therein lies part of the problem.  Sometimes, I have done such a thorough job of wasting my own time that when someone else wastes my time, I have no patience left for it.  I have so many things left undone weighing on me that I can't spare a moment for someone else's waste or use.

Try to think of an example.  I pay bills on Wednesday.  I procrastinated and now it's Friday and I haven't paid the bills.  My husband wants me to sit and watch a movie with the family.  I don't want to spare the time because I already wasted that time on Wednesday.  This is a fairly benign example.  I would sit and watch the movie with the family and then scoot in to pay bills for five minutes before heading to bed.

A more malignant example.  I did not manage my time well this week.  I haven't written the Bible Study for Wed. night youth group.  It's Monday.  I am planning on writing it while my homeschooled kids are doing work they can do on their own.  Except, I stayed up late watching TV last night so I woke up late.  Since I woke up late, the kids got up late.  Now it's 11am and we are just starting school when I get an urgent phone call from my elderly mother asking me to come take a look at my sick father.  I do, but grudgingly.  Because I don't have the time.  Because I wasted it already.  I should have written my Bible Study yesterday.  I should have gone to sleep at a reasonable time.  I should have been up at 8 and had school started at 9 and be done the core subjects already.  But I'm not, so my attitude is bad and I resent the use of my time to run and see to my father.  But it's not his fault.  I wasted my time, not him.  Not my mother.  Thankfully, my parents don't depend on me alone and my sister was more engaged when she went to check on them after work.  My dad went to the doctor and got preventative antibiotics, because he had pneumonia that sent him to the hospital a year ago, and he is fine. 

So the point is, I need to really think about who it is that has wasted my time.  If it's me?  Then I have no right to complain and I need to be better at managing my time.  I realize that life happens and things don't always go according to plan.  But, if I am "coaching my team" well then those off games won't ruin my whole season.  Thanks to my husband's friend, Don, for the metaphor.

Pet Peeves...again

This time, in the interest of getting it out and looking at it objectively.  Trying to come to terms with it and become a better person by putting it to rest.

# 1 in this series:
Having my time wasted by other people.

Please comment.

Dog Bed

We have a really sweet dog, if I haven't said already.  His Grandma bought him this really swanky dog bed.  Sealy.  Memory foam.  Well, at some point he decided that it needed a bit of freshening up every evening and he started digging at it to fluff up the memory foam.

 Recently, my son's room (where the dog sleeps on his swanky bed) started smelling like a farm.  So I washed the dog bed.

I found that his nightly floofing had torn a hole in the skimpy lining they had around the memory foam bits.  So I had to go get stuff to fix it.  Then I found that the foot pedal thing for my sewing machine was missing.  So I had to order a new one.  It came in today.  Something like 5 days early. 

So I am off to sew a doggy mattress.  Yay!

This really is a positive thing.  I promise!

Rings

I can wear my wedding and engagement rings!

Over the past few years I have put on some weight and that added to swelling and inflammation from health issues has prevented me from wearing my wedding rings.

Recently, my husband and kids conspired to have my rings enlarged.  They didn't check what size I am now though and so the rings still didn't quite fit.

More recently, my GI doctor took me off one of my medications which made it necessary for me to make pretty drastic changes in my diet.  The downside: no coffee, or dairy.  The upside:  weight loss.

Major benefit:  MY RINGS NOW FIT!!!!!

Squirrels

Our house feeds the birds.  You know, bird feeders of various kinds with varoius kinds of seed in them for the birds to eat.

Mostly we actually feed the squirrels.  Not on purpose.  They like the bird feed. 

Some people find this almost offensive, like the squirrels know that the food is for the birds but they're such thieves and mischief makers that they steal the food.  That they KNOW is for the birds.  Dirty rotten squirrels.

Sadly, I am not of that opinion.  I think squirrels are just the darn cutest things ever.  It doesn't bother me a bit that they take the food offered up for general consumption.  Ya snooze, Ya LOOSE birdies!

Sorry

I have been having a really hard time putting a positive spin on anything lately.  Hopefully my morale will improve here soon and I can start puttin up some  "positive spin on a bad situation" posts.

IKR

Um, why do my kids say, "I know, right?"  All the time.  Is this my curse for using "Like" as every other word in the 80's?