As promised, here is my time journal for 3/25-3/31:
- sleep: 49 hours
- work: 46 hours
- exercise: 3 hours
- family time: 7 hours
- writing/writing-related activity: 5 hours
- laundry: 2 hours
- housework and ‘kid’ work: 5
- menu planning/cooking: 8 hours
- meals: 12 hours
- Social Media/internet ‘putter’: 13 hours
- vacation planning: 2 hours
- reading book for book review: 2.5 hours
- showering/dressing/grooming: 3.5 hours
- planning garden: 2 hours
- planning 7 year old’s birthday celebrations (yes, that’s plural): 2 hours
- reading: 3 hours
- general planning/bullet journaling: 3 hours
- total: 168 hours
I have some thoughts and observations. I work almost as much as I sleep, and for 4/1-4/7, I worked more than I slept by at least 10 hours. This does not seem like a healthy balance. I spent more than half a day on Social Media and puttering online. OMG. Gentle reader, I am as shocked and appalled as you are.
Almost an entire day is devoted to food preparation. I do enjoy cooking, and I try to prep ahead–which doesn’t always work due to poor planning.
I spent a lot of time planning–at least 10 hours. I do love to plan; however, almost all of the planning is for specific events. I spent almost as much time researching ‘space cake’ as I did planning my day and my week. Ortlund would probably tell me I need to re-examine this. I don’t spend much time on my appearance, which I knew, but it’s funny to me that I spent more time planning my vacation and my garden than I did on my appearance. Now, if we count exercise, then I spent 7.5 hours–funnily enough, that’s very similar to Ortlund’s just over an hour per day on her appearance.