Extreme Balance

It's early Saturday morning, and all is quiet. Coffee is brewed and I am about to sit and jot down my "to do" list for the weekend. I feel a little overwhelmed at many things that need to be done, and trying to fit in things that I "want" to do. I'm looking for that balance this weekend...the balance of accomplishing the menial tasks and also accomplishing a little "me" time.

A current trend in pop culture these days is "extreme"...."Extreme Makeovers", "Extreme Makeover Home Edition", "Extreme Sports", "Extreme Championship Fighting", "Extreme Videos", "Extreme Couponing" (yes..there IS a show on TLC), Animal Planet has "The Most Extreme", and I recently saw "The Most Extreme Hotels" on the Travel Channel. As if "Hoarders" weren't bad enough, we now have "Extreme Hoarders". We are a culture preoccupied with the word "extreme".

Webster's defines extreme as: 1) exisiting in a very high degree 2) going to great or exaggerated lengths 3) exceeding the ordinary, usual or expected.

For some reason, balance seems hard for me. And now I feel like I need "Extreme Balance". What's a gal to do?

For some reason, my personality is one that tends to go to extremes. I will either work myself to death on a weekend, only to find myself bone tired on Sunday night; or I will relax and "play" all weekend...enjoying books, movies, my girls, friends...but on Sunday will find myself running around to accomplish at least ONE thing that was on my to do list.

So this morning, I am looking for "Extreme Balance". I want to go to great lengths and exceed the usual in my time off. I want to mark off some tasks and mark off several chapters in one of the books I'm dying to read. I want to mark off the grocery shopping and also mark off a movie.

I'll let you know how it goes...if I'm successful, maybe I can have a show.