Simplify Your Life

You ever get the feeling that you're just too busy? That you've taken too much on and you're snowed under with all the responsibility? That's how I'm feeling today. You'd think this realization would rear its ugly head when I noticed that my to-do list features items like work over time to keep the bosses happy, mow the lawn, paint the office, get finalized scripts to Evan, put together a final pitch package for Dear Santa, contact Danielle and Charles about their art samples, and prepare for all three fantasy football drafts.

No, I realized I'm too busy when I found out that the latest issue of Detective Comics came out three weeks ago and I didn't pick it up. It seems so inconsequential, but I was totally looking forward to that issue and I just completely spaced it. When you have too much on your plate to drive the three miles to the comic shop to pick up a comic, you've go issues.

Now I have to either get one of the remaining and totally inferior copies of the comic, which just isn't acceptable, or I forget it all together. It's actually gotten to the point where I'm considering just selling off all of my comics, relieving my office of some clutter, and sticking to the trades that are lining my bookcases, waiting to be read.

Funny how just last week I was all excited to be reading again, and now I'm swamped. I need more hours in the day. Don't get me wrong, most of the items on my list are fun things that I look forward to doing, but with so much happening at once, even reading a comic or playing a game of Madden 09 suddenly seems like a chore that I have to rush through so I can get to one of the other items.

Sigh. Hobbies aren't meant to be stressful.