Too Many Projects?

I tend to have too many things to do.  It’s how I work best.  I have been like this as far back as I can remember.  It’s not hard for me to sit and do nothing.  It is, however, hard for me to have nothing to do, to not have a list of fifty things that I plan on doing.  It’s why I adore party planning.  There’s so much to do and consider when planning a party that I automatically have a lot on my to do list.  Oh and crafts.  I have big boxes of nothing but projects on my craft to do list.

I’m starting to actually feel swamped now.  That’s not like me.  It’s just getting to be too much, which is hard for me because I like to feel just slightly overwhelmed.  Just slightly overwhelmed.

At work we have enough classes and graphic design projects for 6 or 7 of us to work on.  Well, there’s only 4 of us.  It would be okay.  Remember, I like to feel just slightly overwhelmed so it’s not too horrible a thing for me.

Then I took on some contract work (which, in general, requires 3-4 hours at home after work, and 16 hours on weekends).  One is going to be finished next week.  The day I finish that one I’ve already agreed to another contract.  That also happens to be the day that I’m throwing the 50-people anniversary dinner party for my parents’ 30th wedding anniversary.  I still have to figure out the cake and I’m making the guest book complete with pictures from the past 30 years.  (Have I ever told you that my parents only dated for one week before my mom proposed to my dad?  That will be a story for another time.)

The week after I go to Vegas for Photoshop World (yay!!).  When I come back I have a poker party to plan that my husband wants to have with his family, I’m starting back at school that same week, and I have until the third week of September to finish that contract that I’m starting next week. 

I have other things that are coming up that I will have to start to focus on.  Halloween for Chloe.  Halloween for my department at work.  Halloween for my company (I talked to the girl who used to be in charge of the Halloween company party and she can’t do it anymore, so I agreed to take over this year).  Boss Day (we always throw a big thing for our boss for Boss Day – last year we did “Office Olympics” like in The Office).  My husband’s 30th birthday party.  Christmas shopping, because I refuse to do any shopping after Thanksgiving.  A baby shower.  Plan a vacation in Florida.  Oh, and we’re still working on Chloe’s big girl room, which requires organizing her toys next – I’ve been putting it off because I don’t look forward to it, but after we do that all we have is setting up her bed and then she’s moving in.  This list is all going to happen before January, by the way.

Not to mention that I’m starting the research for our next place to live.  I have the areas around DC, mainly in Virginia, mapped out and know the general areas that we would want to live based on houses, neighborhood, and demographics.  I’m looking into their schools next.  Then I’ll start to research the Boston area.  Then the Seattle area.  Then anyplace else we think of, though I’m kind of wanting to limit our final list to three possibilities.  I only have until next September for us to know where my husband will start to look for jobs.  After we choose our top places we want to live we want to take short vacations to each city to get a general feel for the community.

 

Do you think this is enough of a to do list?  Since my blogging and emailing and commenting has suffered, I guess this is my pathetic excuse.