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Top Time Suckers
I swear there’s a black hole somewhere between my bedroom and my kitchen . . . I lose five minutes there every morning as I struggle to get the Monsters and me out of the house. Leave the bedroom, travel ten feet to the kitchen . . . and BAM! Lose five minutes.
The older I get (no, I’m not sharing that number!), the more I notice lost time. Maybe it’s because I’m hyper-aware of how little time I have left before Monster #1 leaves home. Maybe it’s because I see where I’ve wasted precious time in the past. Whatever the reason, I treasure my time, and losing it bugs me (even if the reason I lose it is fun).
Below are my top time suckers. Join me in the comments and share your top list!
1) Facebook. I click on it and, well, next thing I know it’s twenty minutes later.
2) The local political discussion board.
3) Trying to grade everything my students produce. (I’m giving this one up.)
4) Scrubbing the bathtub.
5) Indulging in pointless chitchat after school. Okay, I looooove doing this, but it’s worse than Facebook!
6) Looking for things.
7) Trying to remember why I went into a particular room. (#6 is related to this one, I think . . .)
8) Sorting laundry. (My pet peeve. If the Monsters would learn to use the four baskets in the laundry room designed specifically to keep me from doing this . . .)
What time-oriented black holes lurk in your day?
Linda Winfree — Sultry Southern Romantic Suspense
Twitter. It’s scary how many minutes I lose tweeting and reading tweets. Who would have thought 140 characters could eat so much time!!
“Shopping on E-Bay” and your #6. “Looking For Things” are my top time “black holes” ! It is scary how you can start shopping for one specific item on e-bay and really get distracted…….
My husband keeps saying that if he had just 25 cents for everytime I’ve stopped to search for my keys – we could take a very nice cruise !! Oh well – that’s life………
HA! Time is being sucked from my day right now reading wonderful blog posts and commenting. Social networking is another time sucker and those sudden, urgent, errands that must be done immediately and cannot wait until the chapter is done.
Definitely Twitter for me too. I’ll pop on just to do a quick update and get sucked into reading for obscene amounts of time. It’s a wonder I get any work done. :)