the Proverbs 31 woman must have drank ALOT of espressos...

For my non-Bible reading friends, the Prov 31 woman was the soccer mom of ancient times. She managed to keep the whole house running smoothly, and run a business besides, and her whole family was happy and relaxed and so was she, even though she got up before dawn and went to bed before everyone else. *sigh* I do this too (skipping the up before dawn part), and I am dead tired by the end of the week. What does this remind me of? That commercial where the children are perfect and neat and their breakfast of pancakes, eggs and sausage is cooking merrily on the stove, by a merry cook, who sweetly says good morning to her adoring family. Then the happy music squabbles and it shows a 90's household, with pandemonium. The kids are tearing though the house, one of the younger ones thinks he's Superman and tries to run about with a cape, the mom is trying to talk on the phone and can't hear herself think... I can't remember what its advertising, I just remember relating to the rush feeling. LOL. And I don't have kids!!!!

So I think about what I do... I'm usually gone for about 14 hours a day on class/work days, plus I'm working on my book, trying to keep up on piano (lol, its not working), and then of course there's the house that seems to get dirty even though no ones home. I haven't been able to figure out this strange phenomenon yet. Then there's my adoring and loving pets, who are behaving at the moment. My fish is screaming for his tank to be cleaned, and I feel guilty when I feed him, because I know I should clean it. :P I did a speed cleaning on Friday, because it was the only day I had to clean; but I only had 3 hours, because some friends were coming over. However, I managed to get almost the whole downstairs presentable before they came. Then, I'm back to work this weekend, 12 hour shifts, and I got a huge test in psychology to study for. Which I couldn't do today because I had to do some monthly checks at work. Which involved checking emergency lights to make sure they would actually work in an emergency. So I had to press the button on the lights, except I'm not tall enough to reach them, and so I carried a long pole around. Do not run with a long pole; you might accidentally trip your self, or worse, vault your body several feet, when you stumble and the pole is jammed into the ground and you are thrown into the air. *sigh* So, I did get every thing done, without getting a black eye or a concussion. I think I am accident prone. But anyway, after all that, no wonder I'm tired at the end of the week.

I think all I want for Christmas this year is more time. :P then I can work on being virtuous.