Today I am feeling very overwhelmed.
This is my schedule nearly every week day:
5:15 Out of bed
Feed all the inside animals and the outside dogs and cats
Make coffee or tea
Pack lunch
Prepare breakfast
Clean litter box
Dress and leave for campus
6:30 Must be in the car and headed to work.
7:30 Arrive work: answer emails, phone messages, counsel students, check assignments
9:30-12:15 Class
12:30-1:30-2 Office hours --- more of the above
2:00 Leave campus and run all errands (feed, grocery store, post office, and so forth)
3:30ish Arrive home
Answer college emails
Change for barn
Start supper
Feed all the critters in the house and outside again
Clean litter box
4 (usually)- 6
Fill woodstove
Hook-up water
Dump compost
Feed, water chickens and gather eggs
Hay to the bucks
Turn does out on fresh pasture
Feed cow
Clean goat yard, stalls (30 minutes)
Feed does
Give does hay
Feed bucks
6 Finish supper
Wash all dishes
Clean eggs and put away
Start laundry or clean about 1/2 hour
Make soap, in spring
Make bee food, in spring
7:30-9
Check email
Prepare for class
Review assignments
Assorted other homework or housework
9 Bathe
Knit 30 minutes
Read Bible, night-night book
10-11 Lights out
1:30 Wake up to put the dog out....
No wonder I am so tired. Just once in a while, I'd like the Mister to beat me home and do this list. Just once. Oh, well, I leave to see the Airman and his bride in Okinawa on Tuesday... And I can rest then... Right??