How Many Hours in a Day?

"Don't say you don't have enough time.  You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein."   -H. Jackson Brown

I need to get organized. I'm drowning in paperwork and piles and all sorts of not so fun things. 

I'll keep my very long list to myself this month.  I'm juggling the Bead Cruise, making beads and filling orders, SCBWI stuff and trying to talk myself into dedicating a little time each day to illustration.  I have each part blocked off in a journal with to-do lists that have things that need to be done immediately, weekly, monthly and long-term.  That's helping to keep it under control.  Do you think I could talk someone into being my intern, ala Kramer on Seinfeld?

Okay, now here is where you get to peek into the insanity that goes on in my head.  It's Jesse's birthday on the 13th, so I want to have a fun party with a few of our friends on Saturday.  We are going to have a Vegas Night Party.  I'm going to make a cake that looks like two dice (die).  We are going to play poker and eat all sorts of salty bad-for-you snacks!  And Sunday we'll have lunch and cake with his family. All 17 of them, if everyone shows up.  Yikes, he has 6 brothers and sisters.   I'm more than happy to throw two parties for Jesse.  He's so overworked and under appreciated.

Now here it is, the part that tips the scale.  The girls want to be in the school talent show.  We talked about it and came up with the idea to do a puppet show.  Shakespeare's sock puppet theatre.  Well, not sock puppets.  We are going to make handmade puppets.  We are going to do a very quick verison of a Midsummer's Night Dream. It's the girls' favorite.  So we have to work up a little play and have it practiced enough to try out at the end of the month.  Should be fun. Then we have until May to make the props and puppets.  Ah, cardboard, you are always a dear friend!  Tomorrow is the first day of Spring Break, so this will be our project to keep the kids entertained during the week.  Good timing actually.

I'm going to be retiring my HumbleHome blog to use the space for SCBWI stuff.  The only problem, should I just delete it?  I have the photos and could scrapbook with them instead of the blog.  Maybe I should copy and print out my favorite entries.  It's hard to see it go, it's like a diary.  But I don't want to keep up two personal blogs, so it needs to go.  Any suggestions or thoughts?

Comments

[Folkcat]

I notice that your Humble Home blog is hosted by Typepad, so what I did may not work for you. My blogs are all hosted on my own domains.

I retired a number of blogs late last summer. What I did was make a final post in them stating that "this blog has been retired as of MM/DD/YY." Then on the sidebar of my web hub, www.jennykubeck.com, I posted a link to the "archives of my retired blogs."

That way, the articles are still there for me to link to, for search engines to find, and for others to enjoy.

Since you're hosted by Typepad, I don't know if there are limitations on how long they'll keep a stagnant blog in storage.

The birthday party plans sound like fun. I love to see large families who enjoy celebrating things together. They always seem to have the best time. :)

[Anastasia]

Heather,
I recycled most of my retired blog items. I'm either moving them to my new blog or adding them to my webpage. Perhaps you can do that?

I'm not doing it all at once - that's overwhelming - just slowly in bits and pieces. After I move a post, I delete it from the old blog.