To Whom it May Concern:

I am writing this letter to you concerning the allocation of hours in a single day. I understand that the whole 24 hours in a day thing has been sufficient in the past, but I am simply not finding enough minutes in my day. I think that perhaps you have overlooked the complexity of today’s society and the endless number of things on my to do list. I’m not saying that you are slacking, exactly, but times are changing my friend and we‘ve got lots to accomplish. You see, at this rate, I won’t be able to sleep until next Thursday and my family knows that I am an absolute bear if I don’t get enough sleep, so they would like me to include their humble pleadings as well. My husband is concerned for his safety.

I am in need of an extra hour and fifteen minutes so that I can be put on hold a million and four times while trying to figure out why my laptop keeps crashing. As much as I thoroughly enjoy playing the, “I’m sorry, you want me to what? Flub on the Easter grass fable? Huh? Oh, wait… plug in the Ethernet cable?” This will include sufficient time for me to get disconnected three times and have to call back and re-explain my problem to fourteen different people.

I require at least 15 extra minutes to spend hunting down all of the required stuffed animals that are necessary at naptime and then again at bedtime. I have no idea how Maddux’s stuffed cow, Moo, ended up in the crisper with the radishes, but after finding him there while making a salad for dinner, I will remember to check there first tomorrow.

I would really appreciate 2 extra hours in which I can thoroughly clean my floors. If my kids could somehow be retained in suspended animation, that would be fantastic. It will take some time to remove the fruit snacks that are stuck to my hardwood floors in the kitchen. The kids thought it would be really cool to stick them to the bottom of their shoes and then attempt to climb the walls, literally. There was some sort of logic there, I am sure, but I am an adult and it was utterly lost on me.

I also need an extra 25 minutes to dig through the mail that I accumulate each day. Just how many “Act Now! You’ve been pre-approved!” offers can one family possibly need? This 25 minutes should also be enough time for me to piece my Glamour magazine back together after Paizlee snatched it and kindly tore out all of the pages while I was cutting up cucumber slices for lunch. I am not exactly sure what happened to pages 26-54, but I am sure that they will turn up somewhere.

I would also appreciate an extra 7 minutes so that I can eat lunch. Currently, lunchtime consists of making 2 peanut butter and honey sandwiches, cutting up cucumbers and carrot sticks, counting out equal portions of marshmallows so that no one gets slighted, heating up chicken noodle soup and then cutting it all up into age appropriate sizes. This is followed by cleaning up spills and then the ever exciting loading of the dishwasher. By the time that I get the table washed down and the floor swept the monsters have moved on to the next Mom! Come and see what we are doing!! activity and I still haven’t managed to eat anything. Now, while eating Maddux’s leftover marshmallows might cut it on most days, some days I would really, really, really appreciate 7 minutes so that I can eat a bowl of mint chocolate chip ice cream, oh wait, I mean a low-fat turkey sandwich on whole wheat bread.

Last, but certainly not least, I would sincerely appreciate one whole hour so that I can take a nap. A real nap. I haven’t had a real nap since college. You know what I am talking about. The forget about Russian politics, I am so going to skip class and sleep for the next 2 hours kind of nap. Since I am a grown-up now, I will concede to a one hour nap instead two. See? I am willing to compromise here.

All in all, I think you will see that I am being quite reasonable in my request. I am merely asking for an additional 5 hours and 2 minutes every day. If you would like to round this up to 6 hours every day, that would be amazing. Thank you for your consideration and I will expect a reply within the next hour, I am extremely busy today and would like to plan accordingly.

Yours truly,

Estee

That’s my take for the week, what’s yours? I can add your name to my letter if you would like, it can be a class action kind of letter. How much extra time would you need? What would you be able to accomplish if you had more time every day?

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