Skirt! Team Challenge: EXTREME Self-Care “Buddy, can you spare some T I M E ?"

In Chapter One, Cheryl Richardson states that "This challenge is a call to consciousness-becoming more keenly aware of how, why and where you feel deprived.

Everyday when you feel overwhelmed, frustrated, burdened, or resentful, stop and ask yourself:

Where do I feel deprived?  What do I need more of right now?  What do I need less of?  What do I want right now?  What am I yearning for?  Who or what is causing me to feel resentful and why?  What am I starving for?

The only thing I feel deprived of is time and more adequate deep sleep.

I can see this is going to create a natural waterfall as I go through this list...lol

What do I need more of, well heck that is easy TIME and DEEP SLEEP.  Lets see, there are 24 hours in a day, right?  How does one REALLY get "more time".  If you can't seem to fall asleep, how do you get more sleep?  Tonight since I could not sleep, I am up and getting some more time...I will use some of my sleep time to finally write my Monday Challenge blog at 12:40 am on TUESDAY!

I also need to scrape up some more time to work on my "creative room".  I have taken over my son's old bedroom and it is in the process of being re-born. 

What do I need less of.  Now that is the most important question on the list for me.  The answer is simple, I need less of EVERYTHING I have!

What I want right now a dance partner. I wish it would be my boyfriend, but it won't be.

I am yearning for quiet times to think, more time to spend with my children, a deeper relationship with my boyfriend and a cure for my brother in law.

I think the hectic pace of todays lifestyle causes me to feel resentful.  Resentful, because there is actually so much to do, and never enough time.

I am starving to dance like no one is watching, over and over again.

If I could pick one thing that makes me feel deprived, it would not be the lack of things to do. It would be the time to do them.  I feel lots of things I want to do end up being put on the back burner due to time.  When you work 8 hours a day 5 days a week and also grocery shop, cook dinner, do laundry and try to keep the house reasonably orderly, there really is not a lot of time left over.  I feel like I have to steal little minutes of time from here and there to even scratch the surface of the things I wish I were doing.  I find myself telling my boyfriend to let the television commercial run instead of fast forwarding so I can put a load of clothes in the washer or dryer.  Sunday I asked him to make a stop at the fabric store on our way to the marina so I could pick up my fabric to have my footstool recovered.  After we both pondered the fabrics and selected one, 45 minutes had been used up.  As I was paying the clerk, I realized I should have picked out some trim for the bottom edge, but felt I could not use up any more TIME at the fabric store.   We hurried to the car and headed to the marina for our afternoon sail.  Sadly I got a bit queezy so the relaxing I was hoping for did not really occur.  I seem to just go from thing to thing like a whirling dervish.  Sometimes I wonder how I can keep going day in and day out. 

Well my boyfriend just came scuffling out here, he must have rolled over and noticed I was gone.  He was all dressed, shorts, shirt and slippers.  I looked up from the keyboard and said "Going somewhere?" He said "No, I was just wondering if I was keeping you up (snoring)" I said "No, I just couldn't sleep, I'll be there soon"  My daughter just got home, its now 1:25 am, so my stolen moments on her computer are probably expiring.  I think my bed might be calling my name, so better save some time to do what I feel deprived of S L E E P  Zzzzzzzz.

I Love sleep, just a little more time and someone who notices when I am not in bed when I should be...