Extra Time for the Holidays

Did you ever look back on the time that has already flown by... and thought where did the time go?  Not just the seconds we see tick away when glancing at the clock, or the minutes and hours that inevitably follow, but the years that now turn into decades.  I think about the time that has come and gone, some of which I feel so accomplished and rejuvenated, and other times the never ending to-do list grows and the overwhelming feeling falls over me as I wish to curl up in bed with a book and my velvety soft blanket.

Last night, or rather this morning, daylight savings ended for us as the clock ticked back for an extra hour and it seems like there's extra time to do everything now.  Even though it's just an hour of time it still seems like to much more.  It's an extra 60 minutes...an extra 3600 seconds in that whole hour of time to do the things that I always say I don't have enough time for.  And I know I won't get this extra time for very long since next year we will have to give back this extra hour gift.

And it has come at a really good time because I have just been introduced to a really awesome challenge that may seem completely unattainable but I am trying for it anyway.  This morning I registered for the NaNoWriMo which stands for National Novel Writing Month.  This is a time when a writer challenges him or herself to writing a novel in 30 days to total no less than 50,000 words.  My word count so far is 5,484 which is quite a long way off, but we never know what is possible unless we challenge ourselves.  So this will be my challenge this month. 

I am enjoying my volunteer work with the Furry Friends Network.  I've been helping out at the cat adoption center and since I went through my training, I get to process my first cat application this week!  The only down side to processing applications is when I know I'm taking information that will disqualify the applicant.  But, I just have to remember that it's my job as an application processor to collect all of the necessary facts and I am not the one who tells the applicant if they have been approved or denied.  And then next weekend is the Adoptathon at the adoption center!  It should be tons of fun!

I think it's my destiny to be a busy person...working a full-time job, working a part-time job, volunteering in between, and somehow still finding the time to contribute to my attempt at NaNoWriMo.  And of course I can attribute this to daylight savings time ending.  Without that extra hour, I don't think I would be able to do everything I need to do in a day.

Now it's time to do some really awesome holiday baking.  Today while I do lots of laundry I'm baking a caramel apple cake and two cheesecake rolls--one pumpkin and one plain although I am contemplating a chocolate layer in the plain cheesecake roll. 

Tis the season.