No time left for you

Posted Tuesday, September 04, 2007 7:37 PM

This morning on the way to work I was trying to figure out the last time I had this much to do at one time. I gave up – I have never in my life had this much to do at one time.

First there is the wedding category (which 46 days from now will be a lovely memory). In addition to faxing in the ketubbah changes (impossible over the phone because of the amount of Hebrew), I have to get back into "thank you note" writing; send the play list (and do-not-play list to the DJ); finish the last page of the ceremony program; and buy thank you presents for the hostesses for my third shower, being held this weekend (I'll be doing that tonight). Adam bought his tux and I had the final fitting on my dress – so at least, if nothing else, we will be properly attired.

On the homefront, those terrible brown boxes are still camping out in the living room (although not as many as were there last week). Adam cleaned out the cabinets in the kitchen yesterday, which means we can start putting away wedding and shower presents (hooray!). It also means we no longer need to use the oven as temporary storage.

As sisterhood membership vice president, I need to update the member database prior to our board meeting next Monday (Friday night when I went to shul I had about 20 envelopes in my box). I also need to write five welcome notes to the new members; and create the invitation for the upcoming "Breakfast at Tiffany's" luncheon we're holding during my honeymoon weekend (so, no, I won't be there).

For my real job, I have to process the names for the obituary page and finish transcribing a story for the kids page at the end of the month.

For my "other life" as a writer for a Disney trip-planning site, I'm in the midst of writing 50 multiple choice questions (ranging from super-easy to impossible) for an upcoming twice-yearly Disneyland Resort scavenger hunt.

And, of course, in my personal life I have to try to spend some time with my fiancé (in between his trips out of town), and learn the chant for the third aliyah of the second day Rosh Hashanah Torah reading at my father's shul in Chicago.

Yes, it looks like I have a lot to do.

What? I'm not going to say, "but it really isn't that much." It is that much! No question. I have way too much to do.

We brides-to-be turn into superwomen in the last few weeks before our weddings –- or hadn't you heard?

I've read that God doesn't give us anything we can't handle. I'm trying to find the part that says God gives us a break once in a while and we're all entitled to massages – but I don't have time to look for it.