Enough Hours

Anyone who works on the internet already knows how I feel. On the computer before breakfast or even before a shower to check stats, emergency emails, freelancers who need feedback and any critical webmaster board posts. A quick shower, even quicker breakfast, feed the dogs, feed the chickens and then it’s back to the computer. Whatever happened to sex in the morning?? It’s a faded memory around here.

By the time you raise your head it’s past 1pm and you think, “Where did lunch go?” Where we live it’s now daylight savings time and that’s really wrecked the schedule. During the winter we knew when to stop for dinner because it got dark. Now we work til dark but that’s way after 8pm. Who wants to start cooking at 8:30? It’s gotten so bad around here that all I have to do is call and say, “I’d like to place an order for delivery please,” and I get, “oh, hi Maureen.”

It’s not that I’m earning heaps of money or that the work I’m doing is absolutely critical; I work because it’s there. There’s nobody around to say, “Quittin Time”, like the guy in Gone With the Wind. There’s always a link to check, a link to add, stats to follow up, new trends to check on, competition to watch, trademarks to defend… and I could go on at length.

At some point we all get up and decide we can’t hold our eyes open one more minute and decide to go to bed. Sex now? God, no, I’m too tired! All I want to do is sleep.

I’ve decided to change my ways. I’ll keep you informed if it works. I am convined that it doesn’t matter how much money we earn or how well the website does. If we’re too tired to have sex, we’re doing life wrong. No more working past 7pm even if I have to set an alarm. I will have enough energy for sex several times a week, even if I have to have a nap during the day. I’m going to increase my stamina and flexibility by using the gym we installed and I’m going to be happy about it.