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Did you know that the typical lunch break in Italy is two hours?  This is to allow the workers to go home, eat and take a nap to reenergize.  In Japan, large companies have napping rooms for their employees.  In China the "xiu-xi" (nap time) is guaranteed by law.  The information on how good sleep is for you is plentiful.  So why is it Americans insist on running themselves into the ground with their daily routines? 

Guilty as charged!  I often bite off way more than I can chew.  I try to jam so much in this brief life and end up running myself into the ground.  I can't just be me.  I am always taking up a new hobby or trying a new lifestyle.  Scrapbooking.  Couponing.  Zumba.  Clean Eating.  Training for a 5k, for a 10k.  Coaching.  Working two jobs.  Remodeling the house.  I obsess and consume and live and breathe the current interest until I overheat and burn out.  If I had a therapist, I guarantee this personality trait would take several sessions to diagnose.  I blame my mother for ironing her curtains.  I mean who does that?  That is the surefire way to give your kids a complex of restlessness.

I tried for oh so long to avoid this "Pinterest" phenomenon I kept hearing about.  I'd see cute crafts and yummy looking recipes but I kept my blinders on and ignored.  I knew, I knew the minute I caved in I would be sucked into the vortex of do it yourself land. 

I got bored one day.  Very dangerous with someone like me.  It's uaually how my obsessions all begin.  Boredom, curiosity.  So I joined Pinterest.  I've managed to not become an addict........damn, is that they awkward pause where we all remember that denial is the first sign of a problem?

Blows. My. Mind.  Some of the ideas that people have on there are just brain numbing.  The simpleness that has never occurred to me, right in front of me, begging to be pinned to one of my boards.  I am a pinning whore.  I don't discriminate either.  Do It Yourself projects, recipes, hair and beauty tips, quotes that inspire, exercises to try, places I want to travel....I do them all.

It really has revolutionized my life.  My house is so much more organized than before.  I am the mother bringing the cute snacks to events.  I have gone from wanting to buy a new house to starting the love the one we live in.  I make yummy recipes.  Thank you Pinterest for helping me appear to be Supermom. 

If you haven't joined, you should.  No, you shouldn't.  Yes you should.  No, it's addicting.  Yes, it's amazing.  No, it's time consuming.  Yes, it's better than sex.  Well sex in your twenties, when you had a good body and didn't collapse into bed, exhausted and wanting to just roll over and look at Pinterest on your Kindle.  These voices in my head can stop arguing now.

I have been so wrapped up in Pinterest that I just haven't had time to blog.  Well that and remodeling the house.  Well that and coaching 17 girls ages 5,6 and 7 in cheerleading.  But coaching is only a few more weeks.  And then my seasonal second job begins. : )