Ever Feel like You're Drowning in the Mundane?

Yep. I'm betting there are thousands of women who feel exactly the same way. Explains why "Fifty Shades of Grey" is so popular...

This is also why I always try to have something on the far horizon to look forward to, whether it's a vacation in a few months, lunch with a friend next week or a trip to the mall with just my daughter (which sounds like it could be a nightmare, but is actually REALLY fun!). The day in and day out of just getting through the day can get really tiresome, can't it?

Go ahead, vent away. We can all relate.

When I was working full-time and raising my kids, I felt as though there was just one job to take care of after the next. It IS overwhelming and exhausting. I was a teacher though, and no two days were ever the same. This time in your life will run it's course, and then you'll move on to another phase in your life. Things are never static. I know you are too busy right now, and that's a fact. It sounds like you are doing a great job of handling everything. Take pride in that. Remember...This too shall pass. Good luck to you!

I'm with you on this. Honestly, there are some days when the very idea of all this stuff is just exhausting, and I sort of push it to the back of my mind, and then before I know it, someone is telling me how cool the birthday party was for one of DD's classmates - the birthday party I never got around to RSVPing for, much less attending...and the bathroom sink is leaking, and the seal around the shower needs to be replaced, and oh, yes, the family reunion is coming up and I need to come up with a recipe, and did you ever send those graduation cards?

And then someone wet their bed, and someone else has a cramp in their foot in the middle of the night and has to be massaged and sung back to sleep...

And yes, I know too, that I might very well be one of the luckiest people on the planet, but, yeah.

Hang in there, lady.

I do. Same thing every day gets rather boring and mundane. But we peddle through it somehow. I've been suffering through this as of recently. Just wondering why we do the things we do. Why it has to be this way. I could go on but I won't. Just know that you aren't alone. I'm there with you.

When you truly analyze it, life is very weird.
It's rent week here for me, rent is due on the first day of the month, yet I still have about 20 that havent paid. I'd really like to have them all to the bank by tomorrow, most of the people HAVE their money already because welfare and Social Security sends the checks at the first of the month. They are just too lazy to bring it to my office.
Now that I stopped menstruating my job is like my period used to be. Rent time again? --- Just like having to ride that bale of cotton once a month always seemed to come way too quickly.
Time is so fleeting.
I guess my answer is YES, MY LIFE IS IN MUNDANE-LAND right now too!

Remember when you thought being a grown-up was glamorous? From a kid's perspective, having all the money, all the control, and THE ABILITY TO STAY UP AS LATE AS I WANTED were what being an adult was all about. Little did I realize that adulthood is actually riddled with mortgage payments, calls to the insurance company, planning and shopping for meals, and sharing responsibility with my husband for the health and well being of two little humans. It's a glamorous life.
Sounds like it's time for a much deserved break to recharge your batteries. Or maybe you can hop of tripadvisor and do a little armchair traveling?

Yes, I feel like this.
Especially today where the afternoon dragged on interminably. While thankful to have a job, it is a job I find repetitive and not challenging on a good day, and all that and frustrating on a bad day. Today was a "bad" day. LOL

Now I am home and faced with the scintillating options of laundry or sweeping or just going to sleep. I didn't even bother to cook - it was a Subway trip for us.

I think we all get bored with the routine of our lives. But, I also now that, having had my life turned upside down in the past two years, that I need to better appreciate the mundane.

Oh, but today is a "yawn" kinda' day.

Drowning in the mundane? Nearly every freakin' day. Why do you ladies think I'm on this site so much?:-)~

I can't believe what a stretch it can be some days for me to figure out the really boring stuff, like how to time the household tasks so that the bigger ones are done before Kiddo gets home or keeping certain projects for certain times... or what about even trying to wrap my head around dinner each and every day?

I also spent over an hour today trying to get an evaluation from my child's OT faxed to his upcoming eye exam, going from building to building to home (because the medical records can't supply me with the address of their own facility, which by that time was farther away than home) and back to the hospital. Fortunately, the hospital is only a block away, but still....The silent scream....arghhh!

And right now, I don't even want to look at the living room. I made Kiddo take his quiet time in his room today because I simply couldn't deal with more mess. It never ends. I'm glad for the creation and construction, but do craft sticks each need their own square foot of hardwood to exist in? :)

Thanks for the rant! And Oh heavens! Grandma T, you keep cracking me up. Maybe THAT'S why I'm on this site so much!

Ah... the laundry syndrome. Daily life is like laundry. You sort it, wash it, dry or hang it, fold it neatly, organize it by family membr and put it away. Momentarily, it feels done. Then.. WAM, there it is again!!!

I so get what you are experiencing. The more we have to do, the more we do, the less we get away from it, the more life is one laundry-like task to accomplish after another.

Now, this is what I suggest. Find one thing that is not laundry. Not responsiblilty. Does not have to be accomplished. Is not for anyone else.

Join a photography, drawing, painting, chorus,etc. group. Just enjoy creating.

I fully realize this is tough to schedule, but you are SO worth it.

Take care.

YES
and I'm getting bitter because my husband always manages to go do something very interesting. Tonight he is practicing for a play, his first community theater. Always something interesting while I help child with book report take him to school event supervise his shower etc. And get ready for another crappy day at work. I do stop and count my blessings every evening, and try to think of people who wish they had houses to clean, or wish they children to take care, or wish they had jobs to go to...

My job is KILLING me with boredome. Even if mundane, I relish my personal/home/family responsibilities in comparison.

My only tips are A) like someone else said, use the horizon for a distraction -- trips, future plans, life milestones that lie ahead and break up the monotony. Basically good old-fashioned daydreaming! :) and B) Hobbies as distractions. Find something for you and only you to enjoy that can get disrupt the routine and mundane. Can be small/minor and still make a difference. If nothing else, enlist family and/or neighbors to help with your load once in a while to give yourself a little break. You deserve it so make it happen!