How many plates are you juggling today?

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I sat down for a brief rest and a quick cup of tea after lunch today and cast my eye around the room, noting all the jobs waiting for my attention: • The ironing was waiting to be taken upstairs and put away. • Yesterday’s washing was waiting to be ironed. • There were things on the veranda that needed to be brought in as rain was threatening. • I had cleaned the kitchen but the floor had to be mopped. • The lunch things needed to be washed up. These were the things that had to be done, but there were extra ‘plates’ that I had yet to throw into the air: Check my emails, check my notifications on MyLot, make the beds (!) remove Lucy’s cat fur from my husband’s office chair, make the evening meal and try to find half an hour to study my Greek lessons. The latter is always left until last and rarely accomplished because by then all this juggling leaves me too tired to do anything else but flop into a comfortable chair and recover. That makes 11 plates for me, how about you?