Here is the question of the day.

Why is it, when one thing in my life is not going well, everything else seems to fall by the wayside?  I don’t want to do anything productive.  I have all these great goals but, I don’t have the energy or wherewithal to do them.

It isn’t just the current problem, this happens to me all the time.  I guess I am only able to focus on one thing…the problem, when a crisis comes up.  Everything else will just have to wait.  Is this the norm?  Do others handle crises differently?

I sometimes think I might be using the crisis to avoid doing the things that need getting done.  I am an average procrastinator by nature, but have improved over the course of my life.  I have found that if I do something right away, then it is more apt to get done than if I put it off and heap it on the ‘to do’ pile

Sometimes it truly is a matter of energy.  The current problem is our little Charlotte; she needs more attention with her new medical condition than she has needed in the past.  So I am worn out by the end of the day, with work and taking care of her and the house and my husband…you get the picture.

I think if I were to try to compartmentalize my life a little better maybe I could change this behavior.  Only allow so many hours of the day to be taken up by the crisis of the moment, then for the rest of the day, I need to go about my life as normally as possible.  Is that even doable?  Doesn’t sound like it to me, but I know some people have pulled it off.  I am going to try it for a week.  Notice I say try…I hear Yoda in the back of my brain saying…”there is no try, only do!”

Well that’s what has been rambling around my head the past week or so.  I am a thinker if you haven’t figured that out already.  Way too much thinking.  On the up-side a thinker is usually a problem solver and that is me too. 

Switching gears here…Thursday is usually my Sur*vivor night, but alas Sur*vivor is no more…at least until the fall.  Not happy with the outcome of this Sur*vivor.  So I am going out to dinner with some friends tonight.  Hubby is staying home.

EOM