A few weeks ago I found myself frustrated by the fact that I was too busy to enjoy life's little pleasures. For example, I had gotten a new I-Touch for my birthday and hadn't had time to explore and my OLPC laptop had finally arrived and there had not been even a moment to open the box. So what did I do? I created a diversion by wasting time on Twitter asking my community to finish the "Jeff Foxworthy" (of You might be a redneck if.. fame) like statement.. The responses were hilarious! Mostly because they were all so true! Read them over and see if you haven't been there!
So here you go..compliments of Twitter-- oh btw.. if you have one to add- please do in comments. Thanks my fellows Twits! You are too funny!
You might be too busy if...
- you can't wait to leave work... to go home and do more work.
- your husband and children go on vacations (without you) and you are happy :-)
- your to-do list is a list of to-do lists.
- you say you're too busy to learn how RSS can reduce your stress!
- your calendar is full through May and it is only January!
- you took the Christmas decorations down 2 weeks. ago, but all the boxes are still in the living room.
- you wake up in the morning, get dressed and ready for work...then realize it's Saturday!
- your 5 yr old says, "Are you done yet, I need to work on the computer now!"
- your cell phone vibrating makes a hole in your pocket!
- you discover that you already made the entire wiki for the workshop and had completely forgotten that you'd done it!
- hot chocolate and pizza logs eaten at a skating rink constitute dinner. Twice a week. For four months.
- you look at your calendar and don't see Saturday or Sunday.
- there are so many things to do that you can't decide which to start, so sit and stare at twitter.
- you've already put in 8 hours before you take that shower!
- you spend four days trying to accomplish 1 thing, and realize that u have finished many other tasks but still not that 1 thing.
- you have yet to turn on for the 1st time the new Macbook pro you got back in Dec.
- you rush to brush your teeth and realize you've used Preparation H instead of Crest.
- you realize you haven't done laundry, so you just wear two different socks under your boots, hoping no one will notice.
- you have to schedule time on your calendar for a restroom break.
- you forget to eat lunch even after several people remind you!
- school ends in an hour and you haven't eaten lunch.
- you don't have time to replace the dead batteries in your PDA.
- you think it's still Monday. (Ha - just kidding - I know it's really Tuesday. Wait. What?)
- you can't remember if you ate or just thought about eating.
- you still have unopened boxes of palm pilots and document cameras.
- you are grading papers in January that were turned in mid November.
- you're 3/4 of the way through the day before you actually think about what you want to accomplish for the day.
- you look up at the clock and 6 hours have passed without you noticing.
- your desk has too many piles that you resort to working elsewhere.
- you spend more time adding things to your to-do list than actually DOING them.
- you spend so much time organizing your to-do's that you have no time to actually do (been there, done that :-))
- you have MAIL from 6 weeks ago you haven't opened yet.
- you do not notice your "Currently" Twitter comment is almost three days old.
- you haven't got time to write a 140 character reply to Sheryl!
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