People vs. Productivity

Here's something I never thought about before last week -- how do adults keep their social lives going while trying to get stuff done?!

I have been saving up for a piercing and giving myself some spare change every time I practice an instrument or exercise for 30 minutes.  Of course, this means that I could be practicing up to 2 1/2 hours a day plus exercise.  And then there are a million crafts I want to do, and housework, cooking, and work.  Plus anything else I want to do with Stu, which happens too rarely for my liking.  Poor guy.

I was going along alright (kitchen was *mostly* clean most of the time) until last week when everybody was settled back down in school and people wanted to hang out and I actually had time to say yes.

Don't get me wrong.  If you want to hang out, I'm almost always going to say yes.  But therein lies the problem.  If 30 people want to hang out, I'm going to figure out a way to do it, and everything else falls by the wayside. 

So last week, I had a terrific time - spent time with people almost every night, watched some good movies/TV, played some games, and ate waaaaaay too much junk food.  And this week, it is so quiet that I get antsy the later it gets and nothing seems interesting enough to do.  Plus I didn't do anything the week before so now the kitchen and bathroom are disgusting and I'm falling all over the clothes and boxes in the living room (and trying to figure out when to take the tree down since we don't have room for it).

And I know, I know...it all comes down to balance.  Again.  This balance thing keeps coming up and I keep trying to figure out how to do it.  I think it might be one of those evolving-over-the-course-of-a-lifetime skills.  Or, maybe I should just find a place to be creative with other people.  That way I can do both at once and have time to clean out the fridge and take out the trash.

One can dream, I suppose.