Multi-tasking vs. getting overwhelmed

Last week, one of my co-workers told me I'm a great multi-tasker. That's one of the benefits of being ADHD. My mind can't function on just one thing at a time. Maybe on one huge project, but I still have to have a lot of little things going on simultaneously. Like right now, I'm writing this blog and watching TV. I'm not paying much attention to the TV but I need something in the background to listen to and glance at occasionally. Something I don't have to answer. Usually, I agree. I'm a great multi-tasker. Until I get way too much to do. Like this past month. I had 3 edits and two stories to finish writing. My friends and family asked me why I planned so badly. Well, edits come when they come. I was waiting on one edit for three years. The other I was waiting on for 6 months. I, gulp, forgot about the story due to write. That was my fault. As per the edits, that's just how the planets aligned. Meanwhile, the daughter's playing on two softball teams so she has games and or practice almost every day of the week. I've been involved in a couple big projects at the day job so I've been staying until 6 and even 7 pm nightly. So I've gone beyond merely multi-tasking to being overwhelmed. Or I was. I handed int he first round of edits on the final edit due. I handed in my stories. I finished my big project at work. I stayed home from the day job today to rest up from my fall this weekend. I've been in bed catching up on much needed rest since Saturday. Now I've gone to the flip side and I'm getting antsy. I'm ready to get up and out and play or work or do anything but stay in bed another damn minute! I feel human again - almost. Just don't look at my black and blue back. The doctor today said it looks to be healing well and I should get the stitches taken out next Monday. You'll also want to see what Amarinda Jones, Anika Hamilton, Anny Cook, Barbara Huffert, Brynn Paulin, Bronwyn Green, Dakota Rebel, Kelly Kirch, Molly Daniels, Sandra Cox, Regina Carlysle, and Cindy Spencer Pape are up to, so make sure to visit them also. :)

Overwhelmed - again!

It would be nice if I actually wrote an article before I posted the blog. If you checked this out early you'll know what I mean. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, I posted the final paragraph about "You'll also want to see what other authors are doing" and nothing else. I've been feeling overwhelmed again. I'm sure there are a lot of factors. I hadn't had my Lexapro in 2 or 3 weeks. I'm under the gun of 2 big edts and having another whole story to write due. I've been down with asthma and bronchitis. The kids, in particular DD2, want me to run them places right and left. The Softball Team's Booster Club is on our back about helping out more and most of it's during my work hours when I can't take off from the day job. I feel bad for not volunteering more with the softball team but I'm way behind in my writing job as it is. I finally finished one big edit yesterday (first round anyway) which is a relief. However, that still leaves another big edit and a story to finish writing. And have I exercised? Even once this week? Even once in the past month? Have I even used the bathing suit I bought two or three months ago? All big NOs. I want to but then I feel guilty that I'm ignoring the writing. Yeah, I have a problem about feeling guilty too much. A few years back I decided to get healthy and I exercised and dieted all the time and ignored the writing/promoting. Then I hardly put out any books. My career took a nosedive. But I got thin and my cholesterol came down. But I can't seem to manage to hold the day job and do enough exercise and writing all at the same time. Not with kids still at home anyway. Not when half my time off the day job is at softball games or taxiing kids to their activities. Yikes! I don't mean to whine. I'm just annoyed with myself for not working this out better. For perhaps taking breaks to watch American Idol instead of breaks to walk. AI is pretty much my one guilty pleasure. That and too much KFC. Hubby just pointed out it's time to pick up the daughter from her friend's house where she stayed overnight so we can take her to guess where -- yep, softball practice again. Today it's batting practice. Tomorrow night is a game. I'm going to be good and WALK during her practice. And afterwards I'm going to camp out at Borders again to write. I wish the library was open late because I'd go there instead. The library has privacy cubicles with power hookups in every one and there's no tempting food to make me spend money and calories. You'll also want to see what Amarinda Jones, Anika Hamilton, Anny Cook, Barbara Huffert, Brynn Paulin, Bronwyn Green, Dakota Rebel, Kelly Kirch, Molly Daniels, Sandra Cox, Regina Carlysle, and Cindy Spencer Pape are up to, so make sure to visit them also. :)