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"It was noon. I hadn&amp;#039;t showered nor eaten breakfast or lunch. I was on call for jury duty. If I wasn&amp;#039;t called, at 1 pm I was supposed to teach a writing class, which truthfully I hadn&amp;#039;t prepared all that much for. And I had to drive 45 minutes to get there. I was home frantically trying to do four things at once: get a long-overdue welcome email out to the parents in Max&amp;#039;s third grade class, as I&amp;#039;m a co-room parent; track down a source for an article; print out some notes for class, and gobble down a sandwich before I collapsed from hunger. All the while the title of Allison Pearson&amp;#039;s novel was running through my head. And I&amp;#039;m sure I&amp;#039;m not alone in singing this tune. And then add perimenopause into the mix. It is Indian summer where I live; the days are hot, and I am hotter. But somehow I made it to class on time. Things went well, and then later on I collapsed on the couch, exhausted. And this is fairly typical of my days.  It&amp;#039;s no wonder that yesterday I tweaked my knee, which made a popping sound as I got up from a chair, and I felt a rush of blinding pain. Nor that I have a cold that just won&amp;#039;t quit. I feel like I&amp;#039;m running on fumes, and I&amp;#039;m sure at least some of you readers can relate.  That&amp;#039;s why I&amp;#039;m going to do what one mother in Max&amp;#039;s class did last weekend. Though everyone was going on the camping trip, she wrote to say that she had so many other things lined up in weekends before and after that, &amp;quot;the cup is full,&amp;quot; she said in an email. &amp;quot;Since I decided to be good to myself this year and not function on &amp;#039;overload&amp;#039; all the time,&amp;quot; she wrote, she was going to pass but she&amp;#039;d come up for the day, have some good times with the kids, and leave by nightfall.  How sensible. So my new favorite line? My cup is full. I vow not to be on overload all the time. Starting now. Want to join me? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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