Feeling totally overwhelmed - venting

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I just feel like I need to vent about how much I have on my plate right now.

I'm currently taking prerequisites to enter an MSN-E program. I'm finishing my BS in Public Health, and am enrolled in two classes right now, and will be in four classes (three online) starting in September.

I work 40 hours a week as a Paralegal, with a 45 minute each way commute.

I have a 14 year old daughter who just started high school, and is on the cheer team with all the time commitments that involves.

I'm married, and while my husband does his best to shoulder as much of the household "stuff" as possible, he works two jobs right now (he was promoted at work but his company hasn't backfilled his old position so he's having to cover BOTH jobs) and isn't home as much as he'd like to be, and is exhausted when he is home.

I'm also the president of my home owners association. Although we have a property management company, other people on the board are turning what should be a very minor time commitment into a constant exercise in quelling imagined emergencies and stopping my vice president from trying to sue everyone who upsets her.

I'm just feeling WAY overwhelmed right now.

For example, tonight I'll leave work at 4:30, get home around 5:15, stop by the grocery store to pick up a few items for dinner the next couple of nights. Then I need to get dinner started, work on reading for a major research paper that's due next week (which I haven't started writing). After dinner I'm meeting with a contractor to review some repairs that my vice president thinks we need done to our townhouse complex. Then after that I get to work more on schoolwork, and start some chicken stock cooking for tomorrow's dinner (which will also be used for Thursday's dinner). At some point I should probably look over my daughter's school work, and spend some time with my husband. During all this my husband is going to get home at like 7pm, take the kid to buy school supplies, do two loads of laundry and probably clean the kitchen. :eek:

We're planning on getting a housekeeper every other week or so to help keep things cleaned around the house. I'm trying to do menu planning so that I can cook a lot of stuff ahead of time and freeze it. My husband is a huge help to my sanity, but even with him doing 90% of the laundry and most of the day-to-day cleaning, I still feel like I just don't have time to unwind.

I'm just having one of those days where I feel like screaming: I AM ONE PERSON AND I CANNOT DO EVERYTHING!!!!!!!

Ugh. I just needed to vent. Thanks for listening.

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