The other night I was in the middle of a psuedo online biblestudy (it was just me and one other person - it was more like a discussion), I was crocheting a new afghan, and in the middle of all this I was talking to my friend Emily on the phone. And to me none of this was unusual behavior.
There are times when I feel that if I'm not doing two or three things at once I'm not being productive or efficent with my time. It's always in hindsight that I realize how overworked or exhausted I've made myself feel.
Like this evening when I was reading through a book, while I continued to work on crocheting an afghan, and making chocolate chip cookies on the side. As soon as I had the cookies finished and it was just the reading and crocheting I was working on I became very tired. I thought to myself I'll just lay my head down for a five or ten minute nap and then it's back to work (I had this lofty goal of finishing 9 afghan squares tonight - each taking 40 minutes to make).
Three hours after laying my head down to rest my eyes I awake to my phone ringing. Hmmm...I must have been more tired than I realized. Could it be the pace I've been working myself at that is making me feel this way.
Seriously, sometimes I wish I could just allow myself to handle one thing at a time (all the time - well most of the time). Maybe I should start by not multi-tasking my crocheting. You know they say crocheting and knitting is supposed to be relaxing. Ha! What do they know. I have a new afghan more than half way completed and I've only been at it for less than a week. See, how much you can get done when you multi-task.
Okay, so maybe I'm undecided on my earlier question if multi-tasking is a skill to be proud of or something I should change my ways about. Maybe I should get some feedback from all of you, my family and friends. What do you all think? Am I taking my multi-tasking overboard or is it a good thing to get so much accomplished in such a short amount of time?
1 comment:
multi-tasking is okay as long as you're not bathing and making toast at the same time....
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