If you could have a bit more time.

United States
April 22, 2008 9:37am CST
I get up in the morning, have my coffee and a smoke (no lectures please) and open my emails and mylot. Next thing you know, I'm in a panic because the time has just flown by and I've got to get ready for work, with less time than I would have preferred to give myself. In the evenings, it also seems like the hours aren't nearly long enough for all I'd like to get done. My house is a mess, I haven't entered nearly as many comments back on my responses as I'd like and my eyes are becoming weary. I push myself to stay up though, because I know if I don't tomorrow morning will be right on top of me and I want to extend the day as long as I can. If you were to be given a little extra time would you prefer it in the morning or in the evening and why?
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@KKKBsmom (1092)
• United States
22 Apr 08
I know how you feel.. I get on here at mylot and the time flys!!! I don't know why... m aybe cause we are so excited and find so much good stuff to talk about here at mylot that we just keep going!!! I know... if I don't do anything before I get on here... nothing gets done! LOL maybe set a time and get up every 15 minutes or so and do something else... then come back?!?!?
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
23 Apr 08
KKKB - know what you mean! I think it is just cause we enjoy it so much, time flys when you are having fun! THose days at DIsneyland and at the beach or hiking in the mountains - those fun things - even the days the grand babies come to visit....just not enough time, but boy that household chore list sure does take a LOOONNNNGGGG time to get completed, even if you are working steadily!
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@jamie08 (430)
• United States
22 Apr 08
i would prefer it in the evening because through out the week i only see my boyfriend at night. SO i would like to extend the hours at night so i will be able to see him more and be able to spend more time with him.
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• United States
23 Apr 08
Thats very sweet. Good luck with your relationship.
@jamie08 (430)
• United States
23 Apr 08
Thank you :)
@Aussies2007 (5336)
• Australia
22 Apr 08
I have been there and done that... Once you get addicted to the internet... nothing else seem to matter... Be very careful not to let the internet rule your life. When I was working... the evenings were never long enough... and I was on the internet until 3AM 7 days a week. Never had the time to go on it in the morning.
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• United States
23 Apr 08
I get up early just so that I can check on my email and mylot. As for being addicted to the internet. Too late. I don't stay on nearly as late as I used to though. I'm really too tired. I usually stay up late enough to watch a television show at 11 and then at midnight I call it a night.
• China
23 Apr 08
U r right, i know i should never let internet rule my life, but the moment i come to use it, i can't stop. Time is always limited when i really decide to do sth.
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@ctrymuziklvr (11057)
• United States
22 Apr 08
I don't need any more time! I have much more than I need as it is. I'm on Social Security, had a part time job that I stupidly quit when my Mom passed away in January because I wasn't making good decisions at the time. Right now I'm taking care of my ex who is recovering from heart surgery so I have nothing but time!
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• United States
22 Apr 08
Although it doesn't sound like you are really happy with your spare time, there are many who would give their eye teeth for it. LOL.
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• China
23 Apr 08
Why don't use this spare time to learn sth. my work is easy, but i also find that i have lots of knowledge to learn about within a limited time. and if i didn't make it, i feel frustrated. always feel depressed
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@moneyandgc (3428)
• United States
22 Apr 08
During the week I don't need any extra time. I have plenty to spare. On the weekend when my husband is home I would love some though. The weekends seem to slip by before we know it! I am at home all day alone with the baby and I get so bored. I am homesick and I don't know anyone here so that doesn't help. Now that the weather is getting warmer I am hoping to spend some extra time outside.
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• United States
23 Apr 08
I'm sorry that you are homesick. What is your circumstances that keeps you away from home?
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• United States
23 Apr 08
My husband is military so the place that we live I don't consider "home".
@p1kef1sh (45681)
22 Apr 08
I think that I would like it both ends of the day and a little in the middle too. I usually hit the computer, unwashed, undressed - don't get excited now. It's not pretty - and with a mug of tea for company about 7.30am. If I am not careful I can still be there, in the same state at 10. So if each minute at that time of the day could be say 90 seconds that would help. At the end of the day things on the Lot just start hotting up as I am ready for bed. Sometimes I do stay on late, but that just means that the next day I wake up grumpy as I do need my sleep. If I were ever to be tortured, sleep deprivation would have me singing like a bird. Sometimes, if I am lucky, I can get up and catch at least one US friend, ahem Katherine, before they go to bed. But then all I do is nag at them for staying up late! The time in the middle of the day would be used to do all the chores that I should have done if I hadn't spent so long on the Lot.
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• United States
23 Apr 08
I wouldn't call it nagging, I'd call it a careful reminder. LOL. And always a much appreciated one at that.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
23 Apr 08
You are very sweet.
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@Ravenladyj (22902)
• United States
22 Apr 08
LOL well seeing how I'm not a big sleeper to begin with I really dont need more time in a day but if i were to have to pick i'd say I'd want more time between the hours of 7am and 3pm....I say extend the school day and extra 3 or 4hrs
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• United States
23 Apr 08
LOL. Want some peace and quiet, huh?
• Philippines
22 Apr 08
I always have had wanted more time... for vacation. Seriously speaking, when there is so much to be done, it seems that time flies too fast. It seems that you can't just accomplish anything. But when you are not doing anything, time seems to go on forever. When there is so much to be accomplished, I always do wish that I have had more time. I have the tendency to procrastinate so when the deadline for something I need to do is just around the corner, that is when I stress myself with a lot of work. I do multitasking and though I am good at it, I still wish I have had more time to do things. Well, if I were to be given a little extra time, I hope I would have some in the morning and some in the evening.
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• United States
23 Apr 08
I tend to think time flies no matter what, except when you are at work and dying to go home. LOL.
@gemini_rose (16264)
22 Apr 08
Well, you will not get a lecture off me, as I do exactly the same in a morning!! I would want the extra time for the evening, I am useless in the morning anyway and never get going until after I have taken the kids to school. But my days are just like yours, never enough time for anything, but if I have the extra time in the evening, then once the kids are in bed and settled then I can put that quiet time to good use!!
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• United States
23 Apr 08
I think we all could put any extra time to good use, couldn't we? LOL.
@chrissieatu (1033)
• China
22 Apr 08
I feel in the same way. It seems that time is not enough for me. Yes, I am well aware that there are 24 hours. But I can not focus long enough so that I can all the things done. The list of what I need to deal with is always too long for me to manage. If I can have more time. I prefer it in the morning. Because I go to bed quite late at night and get up late too. When I finish my breakfast, I just 2 hours or so in the morning. Thus I want a little more time in the morning so that I can have a longer time to stay focus to read my books.
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• United States
23 Apr 08
Yes, I think I tend to agree, a few extra hours before I had to go to work would be really nice.
@lishiwei (1550)
• China
22 Apr 08
I will give some in the morning during the weekends and I will do it during the weekdays.I think you shouldn't make youself so tired if you only because of mylot.We should make ourselves have a happy life.
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• United States
23 Apr 08
Its not just because of mylot, I'm just not ready to give up the day and acquiese to the next one. LOL.
@rlc456 (415)
• United States
22 Apr 08
Yes I do feel I don't have enough time to do what needs to be done. (By the way I smoke-but am trying to quit) If I had more time I would like the morning time, its more quite and not so crazy.
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• United States
23 Apr 08
Good luck with your endeavor. I know its not easy to try to quit smoking. I tried to once a couple of months ago, but was not successful.
@mikeysmom (2088)
• United States
22 Apr 08
i would prefer more time in the morning because that is when i seem to have the most energy and those first few hours fly by in the morning when i need them most. i hit the ground running when i get out of bed and then get my son up for school and make his lunch and breakfast and have my coffee and check some emails before we fly out the door. i drive him to school and he takes the bus home. then i babysit for a 4 year old 5 days per week and two of those days he is here as soon as i get back from taking my son to school. by then it is 9 am and i feel like i am already getting overwhelmed because i have a million things to do in addition to taking care of him all day. by bed time i am sooooo tired. i guess i could use a few more hours at the end of the day too now that i think about it!!
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• United States
23 Apr 08
LOL. You sound like you are plenty busy and even a few extra minutes would help you out.
• United States
22 Apr 08
I used to be like that( the only thing I don't do is drink coffee). I'm a natural morning person. With the help and support of my loved one. We had got work at home. Thru some online organizations. At first things were slow. After a while the started to pick up. Now, we have all the time we need. Surprising enough, we do not get on each others nerves. It was very hard to get anything done with full time work, and children. Now we are doing so many different things, it is getting to be too much. It is not a bad thing at all. We just need to cut back a little to stop and smell the roses. I found it easier to just make my own time. Well o.k, it was not that easy to get to where I am at. Far easier than putting in full time at something one does not enjoy too much. Good luck to you. I hope that thing will become simpler for you in your life!
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• United States
23 Apr 08
Wow, sounds like you and your family have found your perfect niche. I admire that and hope that your life continues on the same path.
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
23 Apr 08
I would like more time in the evening, I am a night person anyway. If I do go out I go out in the evening and when I get back home, I don't have the hours I need to do the things I want to do, like my lot of course lol.
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@mummymo (23706)
22 Apr 08
No lectures from me i need my ciggie in the morning too! lol I guess it wouldn't matter how much extra time I was given I still wouldn't be organised! Even though I can't do much at all I just don't seem to be able to get around to doing anything! xxx
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@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
23 Apr 08
I'd have to ask for it about noon time! I can get up in the morning and have no problenm staying up late, but that noon time, it just seems to hit me with "days half over you know....are you on schedule?"
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@sanzi1201 (644)
• China
23 Apr 08
Time is like the water in the sponge.As long as you jostle,you will have.So,don't complain of the time that you haven't enough time.The time is same and fair to everyone.If you think what things is important and urgen,you will do it as effective as you can and do your best to complete it.If you have enough time,what you want to do ?If you know this,you will have enough time,I believe.
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@lynettebyc (2416)
• China
23 Apr 08
i prefer evening but i'll choose morning. every morning i wake up very early, in fact i make myself wake up early by setting 3 alarms. then i do this or that to kill time. but actually i do think that doing things in the morning is much better. cause if i stayed up too late, it's not very good for skin, and not very good for the working status in the next morning. and i'm trying to changing working in the evening by sleeping early and getting up early. it's good for health probably. things turned out that i sleep early, yeah, i make it, but i don't do anything in the mrning even if i wake up at 6AM. Awful, isn't it
• United States
22 Apr 08
I know what you mean, the time flys by so fast when on the internet. I don't know how to find time in a day to accomplish all i need to. I think you are like many others. The morning is the best time for me to get it all done, by the afternoon i'm so busy.