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And things that make me go… or not…

Just being is hard enough… Add a full-time job, a part-time job (writing), humanitarian efforts, motherhood, being a wife, and simply trying to have a life into the equation, and you might end up like me… exhausted! For years, I chose to ignore what I saw every night; my tired face looking in a mirror. After writing about my love of audiobooks, I finally decided to face the facts. A few years ago, I never would have spoken of an audiobook. My love of books, feeling the pages, writing in them and absorbing each read is too strong! As much as I like my audiobooks, I still love the feeling of holding a book in hand. Unfortunately, that has become a rarity since my eyes are too weak to read in the evening (the only down time I seem to have).

An average day in the life of me! Here’s the skinny:

When I wake up in the morning, feeling like P-diddy (like how I incorporated the song Tik Tok? Call me a dork)… K, back to the song… When I wake up in the morning UNLIKE P-diddy, all I want to do is crawl back into bed… instead, I have no choice but to get up (after hitting the snooze button of course).
Generally, I let the dogs out, and then back in.
Moments later, my computer starts calling my name…
I check my schedule for the day, answer some emails and try to write a bit.
By now, it’s time to wake up the girls.
We gather in the kitchen and I make them breakfast.
After breakfast, I take a quick shower and then get the girls ready for drop off. During summer vacation, I don’t have to deal with drop offs but still get them ready.
I grab my morning cup of Joe and… off to work I go. At work, my day is filled with… drum roll please… work.
At some point during the day/afternoon, I either pick up the girls from school, or wherever they may be.
Once home, I feed the dogs, feed the kids, feed myself, then feed myself again, and again (kidding).
The girls and I do some reading and writing before I put them to bed.
Once in bed, the second part of my day begins. By now, it’s usually 8pm.
I pick up the house, get into my pajamas and head straight for my computer.
This is when I write, design websites, do some social networking and then write some more.
Around 11:30/midnight, I turn off my computer and head for bed, iPad in hand.
This is when I do a little research for my blog and have the opportunity to read (ok, so I should really say be read to).
Sometime around 1:00am or so, I usually fall asleep, headphones still on… 3:00am comes pretty quick… that is when I usually wake up to burning ears and in need of a bathroom break before falling back to sleep.
6:30am… my alarm goes beeeeeeep… buzzzzzz…. beeeeeeep… buzzzzz… then, I hit snooze.

Although I would love to do nothing more than sleep my day away once in a while, the moments I have time off are better spent with my family… awake. Below, are a list of things that keep me going… as a mother, wife, corporate executive, writer, humanitarian and tired lover of life…
First, my Stainless Steel Travel Coffee Press by Bodum(R) 3.5 cup