random stories :: a story about time or what i hate in myself

back! i was wondering about my day and how it feels so disorganized most of the days… and how so many lovely friends have asked me lately how do i do it. how do i find time to write so much on my blog, to manage photography shops, to take care of the house, to raise a puppy dog, to be mr twiggs girlfriend… well, no one ever asked me these detailed questions, but… sometimes i wonder myself how do i do it, because i am really disorganized.

so this is about someone who is not perfect, nor controlled, nor super woman (no one ever called me this either!), but that loves to got o sleep really late and gets up really soon (no kids, but a puppy dog does the trick too). so, what other imperfections do i have? i am incredibily late answering my emails, not because i want to, or as in laziness, but because i am a bit of hyperactive when i do things. i start something, then i remember a second thing and start doing it, then while doing this second thing, i remember to do something in the kitchen, and when i get back i get to the first thing, until i remember a third one to do… sometimes while uploading pictures to the blog, i jump to my google reader and from then i fly to a fourth thing… and this without finishing any of these 4 things i started in the last half hour. when i told mr twiggs i worked like this, he just said one very short sentence with the word “crazy” in the middle.

however, in the middle of all this i manage to have a notebook and create folders on my outlook… which allows me to have some things (not much, but some) organized. i have specific days to go shopping, i have specific days to print my orders and ship them, i have a schedule for the blog, i schedule posts, i answer personally to every comment with an email, i try to catch up with my flickr friends, once every two or three weeks (lame, i know!), i write posts on the same day they are published or in the night before… those {cool ones} are written once a week. once in every three weeks, i look at my blog schedule and explore blogs, etsy, supermarket, not cot, craftgawker, facebook, twitter and send emails asking photographers, designers, crafters to be guests on my blog (sometimes i loose track on these, because i send them through different websites… stupid me, i know!)

i try to wander around lisbon with different cameras in order to look for new things to shoot, i edit my photos, and maybe once a month i try some new prints around the house to shoot them, in order to have more pictures on both of my etsy shops. i manage sales, merchandising, study my competitors, and see what they do… and try to figure out a way to increase de 54 etsy prints sold so far to about 3421. i manage advertising, create pdf documents to send out to all my sponsors with the newest details about the blog, i manage two facebook accounts, one twitter account and one pinterest. i write interviews, i try to come out with new ideas for posts, and sometimes i figure out i can’t write more than what i am writing, because my lovely readers may not be able to follow all (and i guess they have some difficulty at this point already!)

and with all this, sometimes i lunch really late… i forget that i have no interview for that specific post in that day, so i will have to come up with another idea, like another interview that was not planned for that day. i need to improvise… and with that my friends, i think i am really good! either way i am completely disorganized and i hate that in me… even so, from time to time i really need to organize everything around me to go to sleep in a relaxed way, like every piece is on its place. it is like if my life was a puzzle… that i allow to be mixed up for a couple of weeks, until that day i need to start all over again and have a clean table to complete my puzzle.

with this very long post, that i know that just a few of you will actually read i end my blogging work for today. because i need to get out of the house and wander around the streets… even if to catch some rain on my face. i just need it. by the way, i will take mr twiggs to the theatre this evening!