Where does the time go??

Not a rhetorical question.  This is actually how my weeks have gone the last two months…

Monday:   I have time to eat dinner, socialize with the family briefly, then take ze Munchkin to the soccer footskills clinic.  It’s very late when we come home, and I usually pass right out…

Tuesday:  Basketball practice — almost two hours of writing and storyboarding bliss, but no keyframing.  After practice, I have about an hour and a half, maybe two hours to do actual keyframing. 

Wednesday:  Nothing happening.  A good two-plus hours of keyframing & tweening, whilst the other people who camp out in my house watch “American Idol”.  Next to Tuesday and Saturday, the one day a week I feel like I’m accomplishing something…

Thursday:  Maybe an hour of keyframing.  “The First 48″ is on AMC, and the Better Half and I happen to like grisly crime shows with dead bodies and detectives grilling dimwitted suspects… 

Friday:  Are you kidding?  It’s Friday!!!  NOBODY works on Friday, you silly goose…

Saturday:  Panic sets in when I realize the last two days I’ve worked only an hour, at most (why didn’t I do anything on Friday???  Curse you, Friday!!!).  The sunlight that filters into my room is perfect for illuminating the drawings I’ve done for photographing (I’ve had a scanner on my Christmas and birthday lists for the last three years, but no one seems to get the hint).  The rest of the day I’m compositing images in Painter, doing some tweens with the Wacom, and enjoying Real Life.  Saturday evenings I plop in a movie or watch some tube, interact with the family unit cuz, you know, you gotta do that if you want a sane, happy family unit…

Sunday:  A day of suck.  During the AM it’s house-cleaning time (insert random swear words here), then the afternoons are swallowed up with hoops games for the Pint-sized One.  The games themselves are not the problem - it’s the dead time from when I finish cleaning til we have to get ready to go to the gym.  I’m not very good at forcing myself to be productive between two fixed points in time (I prefer an open-ended arrangement).  Usually get an hour in the evening to draw…

That’s the winter schedule.  The rest of the year, there’s soccer coaching and lawn mowing and a variety of other goofy things to do.  Then you have to take into account I like to come up with some less-than-intelligent schemes and sundry distractions that guarantee most of those keyframing hours are spent not keyframing.  Brilliant, no?

Soooo, the point of all this is…????  No point, really.  This was in case you’re wondering why in the @*$!% it seems like it’s taking forever for me to finish any of my movies.  I am a blockhead.  Get used to it…