Most people I know ask for 25 hours a day. Maybe 26, so they can make sure they get everything they want to get done. Me, I’m going for twenty eight. Sure, maybe that sounds greedy, but think of all the things you could do with an extra four hours.

Sleep a little longer. Read a few more pages. *Write* a few more pages, for that matter. Watch an extra tv show. Clean an extra room in the house. Get out and have coffee and a muffin somewhere.

Pick up one of the hobbies you’ve abandoned along the way.

I have a massive collection of cross-stitch patterns and supplies. I used to stitch all the time. Now? I haven’t picked anything up in months. I have yarn and half finished crochet patterns all over the place. I have beads from my jewelry making. Have I touched any of it since I dove headfirst into this writing gig? I have not.

I feel guilty about that. I think of all the things I bought claiming ‘one day, I will give this to X’ and just … never really got started. I have a pattern that’s been collecting dust for ten-plus years, because it’s for me and there’s always something else to do.

So I’d like another four hours in the day to do the things I want to do and just don’t seem to ever manage to get done.

What about you? What would you do with another four hours?

5 Responses to “28 hours a day”

1. Shelli Stevens Says:
   January 31st, 2007 at 5:56 pm

   Hmm I’d probably write, that is if those extra hours Emma was asleep. If not…maybe workout a second time in the day. But generally, what I do, Emma does.

2. Lyric Says:
   January 31st, 2007 at 11:59 pm

   I’d write and read. Then, I’d workout…maybe! LOL

3. Loribelle Hunt Says:
   February 1st, 2007 at 9:05 am

   Oh yeah, I’d love 4 more hours a day and I’d use ‘em to sleep!

4. Dayna_Hart Says:
   February 1st, 2007 at 6:55 pm

   My husband read this to me last night and asked if I was using ‘Sara Dennis’ as a pen name

   Seriously, from the coffee and muffin to the cross-stitch/crochet/bead-collection from hell, I just had to agree with all of it.

   An extra four hours…I’d likely waste it all playing in photoshop this week

5. Crystal Jordan Says:
   February 5th, 2007 at 7:17 pm

   I’d sleep for sure, and then I’d write. Sounds like a plan to me.