So, I certainly did not intend to neglect my blog for so long, but it just happened. Sometimes life gets in the way of your best intentions. Damned life. Honestly, I wake up in the morning many mornings and I think: Hmmm, today will be a great day for me to blog about . . . [fill in the blank]. And then life happens and I don’t do it. It’s not that I haven’t been busy because I’ve been remarkably busy in the past month. It’s just that I don’t understand what I’ve been busy doing.
What this has made me aware of is the fact that my timing is screwed up. See, most women I know express that the busiest, craziest time of their lives was when their children were young. They were working, making dinner, driving their kids everywhere, attending parent/teacher conferences, helping with homework projects, going to practice or games or performances with their kids, having dinner parties/play dates or chaperoning. Ugh, it’s exhausting just thinking of it all.
Me, not so much. I did do all those things when my son was younger but it wasn’t “nuthin but a thang”. I did all that and had time to spare. I used to get pissed that I could never get in touch with my girlfriends without interruption to chat. So, why now, when my son is almost 18 and, other than driving him and picking he and his girlfriend up from places (she now finally got her license so I won’t have to chauffeur anymore) and I no longer have to be involved in every aspect of his life, do I find that I have so little time to commit to the stuff I want to do? What happened? What has changed?
Oh God. Please don’t make me say that it’s because I’m old and decrepit and I can no longer manage my time properly! Please don’t make me say that it’s because I’m so old that I need more time for everything and I just can’t fit everything in as seamlessly as I could when I was younger! If that is so, then why weren’t other mothers as capable as I was back then? Please don’t make me say that I walk slower and I think slower and I do slower and that’s why I don’t have time for anything anymore!
Nah. I’m pretty sure that something has happened to the time continuum of the universe and it’s just moving faster. Some imperceptible event has occurred that has sped the earth’s rotation up (and all of the clocks too) around the sun. See, I’m not so old that my mind is moving slower. I’m actually so tremendously perceptive and in touch with the finer elements of the universe that I’m the only one who has noticed that the earth is perhaps spinning faster and may be about to spiral right off its axis.
Whew. I’m good.
Evolution Happens . . . 