I have not gotten around to posting too much as my current workload plus the still fresh joys of homeownership have been sucking me dry. Heck, I’ve been neglecting friends, family, and even myself (I still bath and change my clothes!) trying to keep up with the change of pace; shifting priorities is what I have been told.

So what are these shifting priorities? Well as best as I can tell most of it centers on less time for the things I like to do and more time on, well honestly I don’t know. Seems as if the move from an apartment to a house reflects a massive paradigm shift. In the apartment I had huge blocks of leisure time, time that could be spent reading, playing video games, twiddling on computers, or on any number of things. Now, it feels almost like there is no leisure time. I’ve cut back on my reading, playing video games is almost unheard of, and twiddling on computers has been scaled back to just playing on my laptop [admission:the migration to Linux did suck up a huge block of time initially but currently it occupies less time than my former life on Windows].

Well, there are 24 hours in a day what is it getting spent on? the easy answers are six for sleep and nine for work leaving to account for another nine hours. As best as I can tell those nine hours are chewed up by general errand running, the homeownership appears to necessitate a myriad of little trips to fetch things, and maintenance. For example, last weekend I spent nearly two hours walking around the yard picking up sticks. Seriously, stick picking up. I picked up twigs and branches and made a big pile of them, almost a nest but less practical. This weekend I plan expanding my activities vertically by climbing onto the roof to fetch more rogue wood. After that I get to think about raking but first a need a rake. Guess what that means? Yup, another little trip to go look at rakes.

I cannot wait to see the paradigm shift parenthood is going to bring with it.

Diapers > Sticks > Games.