Can You Please Give Me Your Time?

That title is not meant to be figurative, as in listen to me for a while. What I am asking from you is to give up an hour, as in you would end up with 23 hours in one day, and I would have 25. I figure if I could just get one hundred of you to go for that deal, I would have the time that I need to get some things done in my house.

Winters are tough for me. I am not exactly sure when that happened. I used to love winter, but lately all of my motivation to get anything done fades away along with the daylight hours. Since we have such little sun these days, I do not feel productive at all. I technically have enough time to get things done when I get home from work, but I just do not have enough energy. My real problem is that when I come home and it is already dark, I only want to curl up in a ball and go to sleep.

Even if I do manage to complete a project, there is not any light with which to take pictures. No natural light = bad pictures = ugly blog posts = no interest in my blog. I feel like a bad blogger these days. I began this blog so that I could motivate myself to get work done around my house and to share my projects with my friends and family and anyone else who might take an interest. I really appreciate those of you that I have come to know through this blog as well as those I have grown closer to. Unfortunately, I feel that I am letting you down; I am letting myself down by not living up to my goals.

To top it all off, I have had many technical problems lately. First of all, I have been unable to connect my gravatar to my new blog site. My pleas to WordPress for help with this problem have come to naught. A friend told me that I could delete my old page, but I am still getting people visiting that page via old links, and I do not want to lose those visitors. Such is my dilemma.

Facebook also seems to be conspiring against me. Lately, I have not been able to get any pictures to attach to the links I post from my blog to Facebook. Perhaps this is another WordPress problem because the pictures are coming from them after all. Unfortunately, I do not have the time to investigate this problem. Neither do I know exactly what to look for.

Add to this the fact that this is my busiest season at work. I teach full time September through June, but in November through February, I am also coaching after school. That means that I get home three hours later than normal on days when we only have practice. On days that we have meets, I am sometimes not home until ten o’clock at night. When am I supposed to get everything done? I am tired.

On a positive note, five members of my host family from Venezuela are coming to visit for a couple of weeks. They arrive this Saturday. That means that I might actually be doing something fun if I fail to post in the next couple of weeks. I will try not to be completely absent over that period, but I know you will understand if I am not posting regularly.

This is the family that welcomed me into their home in rural Venezuela over twenty one years ago. I lived with them for an entire year, attending a local high school, before returning to the United States. I felt like a part of their family from the first moment, and we have only grown closer in the last twenty odd years. This is their first time in the United States, and I am looking forward to showing them a part of my world.

I hope that all of you are doing better with your projects. Please, feel free to write. I need to hear about your failures and successes. Receiving your comments always brightens my day.

Happy Homemaking!