1/21/26 – OK, where do I apply to get more hours in a day? Is there a department that handles that?
Seriously, people ask me, “When do you sleep?” And I answer, that I just…don’t. I just kind of keep going, until I literally can’t keep my eyes open any more, and fall asleep at the keyboard. And then I wake up, with a million letter kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk in whatever I’m typing, because I fell asleep and my finger just landed on the keyboard.
Or the worst, is when I fall asleep when I’m eating. Yes, I fall asleep in the middle of a bite of food, and wake up 30 seconds later, with half a mouthful of pasta and cracker still sitting in there. And of course I never do just one thing at a time. Usually I’m on the keyboard, while eating, and watching a movie. So I have a mouthful of food, a million letter kkkkkk, and a movie that I have to keep rewinding.
Thankfully, I have a dog who has declared herself to be my sleep-reminder self-trained task-based “service dog”, and when I start to fall asleep with food in my mouth, she muzzle punches me repeatedly, and climbs her 90lb self on my lap, across my keyboard, until I put it away and turn out the lights. Bless her.
Which brings us, full circle, to the part where I ask – where do I apply for more hours in the day?
Because there just aren’t enough to do everything. There aren’t enough hours to walk the dogs, take care of the chickens and cats, do the dishes, sweep the floors, pull the weeds. Do house maintenance, pay the bills. Do my personal hobbies. Read. Go to the grocery store. Go to the doctor, run errands. Do my regular work-job. And then to add on an entire other *job* worth of stuff. More than an entire job worth of stuff. Hundreds of hours.
I’m not begrudging the work. I want to do it. I want to start this project. I know it’s going to take me putting in the hours at the beginning. I know that the help will come. I know that eventually, other people will show themselves, and do the work. Everything is on track, for how it’s all supposed to unfold. This is the labor intensive part. I’m not complaining about having to do it all.
I just – need – more – hours.
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