Where Have You Been All My Month?

While away from the blog I went to Maui, and saw this RIDICULOUSLY cute piglet! He's a pet, I swear, not a luau main course.

So today I saw this very flattering mention on the blog Rather Be Reading (scroll down for the Populazzi mention).  I commented, and the lovely Magan tweeted me this:

@EliseLAllen Of course! I was looking at your site. Anything new and fun coming up I can look forward to?

I knew I hadn't updated the site in awhile, but at her mention of it, I thought I'd check out exactly how long it had been.

Over a month.  Since my March 7th post.  I don't know if you recall my last post-Blogcation Resolutions, but I promised to be here every Tuesday and Thursday, come rain or come shine.

Oops.

Why have I been away?  The short answer is I've been busy, swamped with all kinds of fabulous work things (that I sadly can't yet share, but hope to in the near future!), and all kinds of fabulous life things (that I will totally share now that I'm back in the swing).

A lot of people are busy though.  In fact, I'm willing to bet all of you are busy, and yet many of you find the time to keep up your blog.

So what's my issue?

I've discovered that while I'm sometimes very good at multitasking, other times I get tunnel vision.  I decide I need to not just do laundry, but conquer the laundry, and I will do nothing else in my spare time except load after load of laundry.  Or I'll decide to catch up on a big stack of bills and insurance claims and do nothing else until it's done.

You get the idea.

The easy answer is that I shouldn't let these tasks pile up until they require hours of undivided attention.  I should follow the Fly Lady philosophy and do a little bit every day.  I recognize this, but I've yet to accomplish it.  Instead, I go through phases like this last month, where I get single-minded about one task after another (and kick some butt at those tasks while I'm at it), to the exclusion of everything else (okay, almost everything else.  Miss M always gets my time, and when there are deadlines to make, I'm all over them)… then open my eyes to find a month has passed and I haven't written on either my blog or my other supposedly-daily journal, the journal I've been writing to Miss M since I was pregnant with her.

Balance is my constant quest, and I'm nowhere near finding it yet.  Are you?  Have you mastered that fine art?  Do you have any tips?  Or are you like me, and go underground periodically to zero in on a few tasks while letting others slip through the cracks?

I've missed you, and I look forward to your thoughts!

xo,

E