You Have Time for That?

I have people constantly asking me this question. Sometimes I even got their ridiculous looks accompanied with the question.

Yes, I have the time. Why not? I don't have enough time, but I managed to squeeze time in between to do my own stuff. I do have a life you know?

Besides my family and my job, I do have my my own hobbies, things I like to do, things that help me relax and makes me happy. I read, I scrapbook and I do cross stitch. I love to cook too, although I don't cook much.

How do I manage my time? I wouldn't say that I can manage my time very well,
but I will try to make use of whatever time I have and not waste any precious minutes. Oh yeah, I do feel drained out at the end of the day, but at least I accomplished more in the long run.

In actual fact, I do managed to do reading, cross stitch and scrapbook all in one day, albeit only a bit of each at a time.

Every morning, when I take a train to work, I will catch up with reading. My train ride is about 20 minutes, and bus ride about 5 minutes, I always managed to read 2 chapters each train/bus ride. If a book has 20 chapters, I can finish them in 10 days.

When I reach home every night, usually after a dinner outside, about 8.30pm at most. I will sit down for some TV time, at the same time talk to Tara, play with her, attend to her needs, shower her, give her milk and put her to bed, which is about 10.30pm. Besides watching TV, I don't do anything else until Tara goes to bed. Then I will go for my shower.

While waiting for my long hair to dry, I will do my cross stitch and watch TV at the same time. Once my hair dry, then I will go to bed, which is usually about 12.30 to 1am.

As for scrapbook, when I need to do them, I just make sure I go home earlier (maybe about 7.30pm) and during commercial breaks, I will walk into my scrap room and do a bit of something, be it pasting, arranging or matching papers. I can complete a notebook cover, or a hanging board just by doing that.

And can you see that I love to watch TV too? Yep, I never missed my 9pm and 10pm shows on AXN from Monday to Friday.

As for cooking, it's only once a week or bi weekly affair. Almost like my scrapbook, I do it once a week too, if I don't have need to make any gifts.

So do I have the time? Well, yes I do! I don't have a lot of time, but I know how to make time.