overextended

I really don't know how people do it.

I know that I am not the only one.

So many, many people are over-extended.

Working full time at a job. Working full time at a relationship. Working full time at a family. Continuing life long learning.

Working hard at playing! Working hard at relaxing!

As if!

Currently, I am teaching Sundays (2nd grade Hebrew and Jewish Theater), Mondays (undergraduate class in Intro to Theater), Tuesdays and Thursdays (3rd grade Hebrew). I am teaching/directing Mon-Fri for an hour a day (a Shakespearean production with 7th and 8th graders) and directing my youth theater troupe on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

Saturdays are usually taken up with social obligations. See, it says "obligation" and it does feel more like an obligation than a day off.

So, how do people manage? I am eagerly awaiting the opening of the show in a few weeks, to relieve my Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday evenings.

Looking forward still more to January and the end of the Monday through Friday commitment.

How do people manage?

On top of this I am working on a relationship, a family, serving on a board, trying to participate in a religious community.

I feel stressed, struggling and sometimes desperate.

And guilty.

Because I'm not even "full-time" at anything.

And because my house is a mess.

How do other people manage? Full time jobs, families AND a clean and orderly house?