Life/programming balancing

So, it's been a week since I started my apprenticeship in becoming a full-stack developer and boy what a week.  I wanted to feel like I'd just caught a Marlin in the Atlantic, instead I felt like I wasn't quite hitting on all 8 cylinders!!

If only it was easy to get through this I might actually have time to blog on a daily basis.  Unfortunately, running a household and trying to keep everything moving forward with coding for firehoseproject is more challenging than getting my MBA and running a household!

As a woman, I have this need to dive head first into any challenge given to me and coding is just the same.  After 2 days of coding, I wondered why I was unable to debug some code that my husband, who has been coding for 20 years, put in front of me.  I mean, "I am woman, hear me roar" is my motto, I can spend 4 hours training a Belgian Malinois, clean the bathrooms, Swiffer sweeper wet mop all the floors in the house, do the dishes, start the dishwasher, empty the dishwasher, launder the bathroom carpets, run the Dyson, marinate the steaks, cut the veggies for the salad, set the table, grill the steaks, prep and bake the rolls, work on my Ruby on Rails projects, participate in my mentoring video chat, participate in my office hours chat, change all the air filters in the house (after remembering that post on Pinterest about putting a scent on the filters so when air goes through them the house will get the scent...shoot, where the hell did I put that Yankee candle fragrance oil?), get dinner on the table and prep me and the house for the next day to start all over again....are there really only 24 hours in a damn day?

Needless to say, by 10pm, my brain is fried and I realize that I didn't get in any real exercise and the Oreo cookies that I had as a pick me up before my 3pm mentoring session screwed no carbs for the day, so what the hell let's eat more Oreos and throw in a popsicle or two for good measure...yep, that'll look great on the hips tomorrow! Maybe that's why I can't get rid of the two zits on my chin while my laugh lines seem to get deeper on my forehead.  WAIT....maybe they aren't laugh lines, but lines from scrunching my face up while trying to pick said zits...I'll probably never know.

Shoot, the dryer just went off, the dog just got up from his nap and I haven't finished saying everything I wanted to about my experience, I'm trying to set up an affiliate program with Amazon and I'm having trouble (I'll let you know if I can get it done here.....oh well, let's see how the rest of the day goes...until tomorrow (or whenever...)!