Now there's a novel idea!
If most of these companies here in the US can do it for their businesses, why can't I for my personal life? Think about it! If you can be as forgetful as I tend to be sometimes, due to the myriad of things you have on your agenda, why not?!
Maybe that might even help me to run my life more efficiently! All I would have to do is hire a company in India somewhere and give them instructions! Yeah, delegating my personal life, why the heck not?!
It would leave me with a lot more personal time for my kids and hubby because there are moments when I feel so stretched, I have no clue as to what to do next! I'm not running a million dollar corporation, I'm not a millionairess or even a CEO's wife, but life for me does get very hectic.
School started for my two younger children and I've been running around even more than I usually do. I've had to drop off and pick up my daughter from school. Drop her off at her after school place and run back to work! Thank heavens my son lives for enough away from his school so he takes the school bus. We live closer to her elementary school so it's up to me. Hubby goes to work way early, my older daughter works til midnight and is and has been undependable for me to rely on her to help with this, so it's just me. That usually means the hectic rushing around, getting her to go in the morning - have you ever had to wake up a 5 year old who still insists on having five more minutes to sleep? No fun! We walk to school because the amount of cars and school buses going in and out of her school is nauseating and I have no time to sit and wait for my turn to go, I do enough of that in regular traffic!
Then at around 2:15 or 2:30pm it's the mad dash to leave my office and pick her up by 2:45! Thank heavens for a flexible schedule! Now if I were able to outsource this task to someone, hmmm, they would have to be here in the US....maybe they could find someone reliable to do it for me here....then again, strike that off my list...no stranger picking up my child!
At work it's been so hectic. To make up for my time I leave at 6 these days. Which is fine because there is a lot to do. At my job when it comes to quitting time if you have anything to say to anyone you better do it fast or else you end up talking to the wind! I've never seen a bunch of people hightail it outta there so fast! Usually myself and a two other people and my boss are at our desks after 5. Sadly I can't outsource my job, but I have three part time people at my disposal so I'm not doing so badly! Naw...can't outsource this one either! Plus my boss might begin to get ideas that I am definitely outsource-able, I am, but he can't know that!
Then there's the gym time that I have to do because I am working on whipping my butt in shape. Why can't I outsource that to someone to do for me? My hubby and I often have this conversation...we would be looking at something on TV and there would be some supermodel-type on the screen with flat abs, firm thighs....me being me would comment on how great she looks and how nice it would be to have that body. This is usually the part that most men probably dread, right?...they have to respond correctly or earn the wrath of the wife! My hubby being the wonderful man he is usually tells me that he loves me just the way I am...yeah right I'm saying to myself...I know he does....then he would pinch his firm body and say that he needs to put on some weight...then I would pinch my fat and say..."here, which part you want first? You can start with my butt or my thigh or better yet take the flab from my belly first!" I guess I'm stuck doing my own workouts! Maybe I could get someone to pay for a personal trainer!
I hate paying my bills. Yes, every three weeks, that's how often the bills comes around now. It's not a monthly cycle anymore! I sometimes forget too and on the day that something is due is when I'm paying it! I've been late before too, when something goes off in my head to remind me that the gas bill has not been paid I make the mad click on the computer keyboard to rectify that situation! Thank heavens for online payments! If I were to outsource that, someone over there would have to know too much about my personal information. I am just not comfortable with that knowledge! This one is a no-go!
After a hectic day, it's not easy unwinding. There's never a dull moment being a mom. There's homework to be done, instructions to guide the kids with, making sure they are in bed on time, at my home - a very hectic time! Dinner to cook, stopping at the store, even though I've been to the supermarket for the week already, my kids eat too much! There's story time before bed. Not to mention the barrage of forms to complete at the beginning of the school year. Didn't I just complete about ten forms for each of you already, I would ask my kids as they hand me even more forms...and everyone wants more money, me too, darn it! Who can I stretch my hand out to? Gimme, gimme, gimme....that's all schools seem to do these days!
I have phone calls to make to friends who I have yet to call. Perhaps I can outsource those, get someone who sound like me, to leave a message to say that I'll call when I have more time. That way they don't feel neglected! Naw...that won't work either....there's no personal feel to it, plus an outsourcer won't know the nuances of who they are talking to enough to respond in kind. I'm really striking out on my outsourcing plans!
Sigh...now that I've talked about it, outsourcing my life is not such a good idea. It works for those companies, but it wouldn't for me! I'm stuck being me...I just have to make me work better at making my life work. Come on woman organize thyself! Time to clean house....hmmm, I've seen those ads about maid service for hire.....