So far my new and improved synchronized schedule is working moderately well. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning I walk/run with one of the big dogs. Tuesday and Thursday morning I clean, followed by Jazzercise after work. The little dogs go out right after they finish eating, while the big dogs are still working on their food and then the big dogs go around the block. It takes a little longer but it’s so much better than turning into a human maypole whilst trying to walk four dogs at one time. I have prioritized my workouts again, so I’m happier. We’re going to bed earlier most nights. Last night we were in bed at about 8:50 but my husband has to get up at 2:00 and we did spend most of the weekend moving furniture helping my youngest daughter move, so we were dead tired.

Now that we’ve gotten my daughter’s chinchillas out of the fitness room and vacuumed up all the chinchilla dust bath dust (!!!), we can get back to using the bowflex. I thought it was going to happen last night but it didn’t, as we were both too tired. I also haven’t figured out when I’m going to do yoga and meditate, which are two other to-be-added priorities. This morning I had my alarm set for 15 minutes earlier but I turned it off and stayed in bed for another half an hour. I’m going to blame it on being tired and sore from all that heavy lifting I did over the weekend. Yeah, I know – I’ll have to stop milking that in another day or two.

I signed up for Deepak Chopra’s 21 Days of Meditation and already missed the first day because I ran out of time. I’m going to see if I can access and play the meditations on my telephone at lunch time. Providing I don’t fall asleep out on the bench and miss coming back from lunch, this may be a good option. If not, then I guess I’ll just have to figure that it isn’t meant to be at this point. There’s no sense in stressing out over meditation, since it rather defeats the purpose.

How in the world do people train for marathons while working full time and managing a household?

It’s funny because I can see where people would just hang it all up and figure that they just can’t find time to work out because it does take patience and commitment. Even now, my husband text messaged me to ask me when my class is tonight because he won’t be done working until at least 6:30, which is too late for the dogs. So I will have to go home after work instead of going to my class. Perhaps I need to rework my schedule (again) to make sure that I get my workouts done in the morning and let the Tuesday and Thursday Jazzercise class be extra?

Good grief! I think it would be easier coordinating robbing a bank! Okay, maybe not and coordinating workouts is certainly less stressful than robbing a bank. Or so I assume. I've never attempted it -- always figured I'd get stage fright.

Okay, so maybe my new schedule, although it's working moderately well, needs to be just a little more flexible.....