The last two weeks have been a wee bit nutty at home and school. And due to the nuttiness, I have been neglecting a number of things that just take too much time (but not this #SOL2019 challenge!) including weeding through emails and getting the mounds of laundry put away. These two things are a couple of the first things to get neglected when the waves are almost drowning me.
My family is getting used to picking through their basket of clean clothes to put together an outfit each morning, so that's a win in my books. However, my emails aren't starting to look after themselves... what's up with that?! The very sound of the email ping on my phone is giving me anxiety these days; so much so, I've begun to tune it right out. Then comes the moment I realize I haven't looked at my phone for a couple of hours and BAM! there's 25 new emails. I can pare down the junk/flyer like emails pretty quickly, but it's the ones that I've specifically subscribed to for one reason or another that have been coming in faster than I can say supercalafragalisticexpialadoshous. It is outright making me go batty! We're on March Break next week and an email purge is already on my list of things to do, but in the meantime the inbox number is just climbing higher and higher. I like to save the Pinterest emails for nights I can't sleep so that I can help pass the time until I do feel drowsy enough to sleep. The rest though..., they need the time and attention that I can only give when I don't have a deadline of lesson planning and prep to do, lunches to make and laundry to sort for the next day. I'm currently sitting at 214 unread in my personal email and 365 in my school email. With a little (or a lot) time I'm confident that I can get my personal emails down close to 100 and my school emails down around 200. Let's see how close to that goal I can get next week when my inbox will have my full attention. Stay tuned!!
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Natasha
3/8/2019 05:02:08 pm
Happy spring break! I'm jealous. There are so many lines that I enjoyed in this piece. "when the waves are almost drowning me" is such an apt description of how all the teachers in my building are feeling these days, and "My family is getting used to picking through their basket of clean clothes to put together an outfit each morning, so that's a win in my books." and "coming in faster than I can say supercalafragalisticexpialadoshous" make me laugh. Good luck with the purge!
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