Step #1 – admit it.
Step #2 – embrace it.
Step #3 – do something about it!

Oh for the love of friends and belly laughs! After an evening full of both of those things, the conversation somehow drifted over to our daily routines – what we do in the mornings & the evenings around the hours that we “work” (in quotations because being at home is work too at times!). My man and I are classic DINKS (with a dog). Our best friends have 1 lil guy who is 20months old, a new one on the way, a condo that is now sold, a potential new family home on the radar and more responsibility than I would know what to do with right now…talk about two completely different lives.

This “schedule” conversation was also rather timely as I had just finished getting quite the lecture for having “no time management skills” and “wasting hours on Facebook, blogs, bla bla bla“. But it was all totally deserved and frankly, true.

I sit at work and do Work. But I craaaave insane amounts of information. I’m as curious as a cat and the world of social media feeds my soul like water feeds a plant. It’s true.

So while my fav Mama proceeds to tell me the structure in her day that goes along with being a Mama/Wife/Career Women/Home Maker, I feel the blood flow to my face and think “but what about your daily twitter feed?” And her husband then quickly announces that he has DELETED his Facebook page… GASP! What about those 800 friends? You are just no longer in touch with them? And then Mama tells me she has 3 blogs she reads daily (bless her – this is one of them, so i don’t think it really counts!)…but still, t-h-r-e-e.

In my state of raised hair follicles, a red face and the gitters…i take a deep breathe and admit it. I’m addicted. I’m addicted to the flow of info, insight, junk, pics and perks of social media. I check my iPhone and my crackberry before 6AM (almost daily), have a routine “social media hit” at approx (but not really approximately at all, more like bang on!) 9AM, 1PM and 7PM, I sit on one phone or the other for my entire commute to/from work and usually am head first into the blogosphere till 9:30PM. WOAH.  Is that redonkulous or WHAT? I’m not totally sure. I have it down to an art — I can usually get a full hit of info in 12min flat! Gmail/Hootsuite/ Google Reader/ LinkedIn/DONE! (repeat) That being said, my plate is pretty full at the moment…so one of these hits needs to go – i’m wiening myself down to twice a day, EXCEPT for the blog world – that is unlimited.

Riddle me if you would be so kind…are you too addicted to this online world? Does the curiosity of another nugget of wisdom keep you glued to a monitor or am I some sort of freak? And Mama’s of the world — HOW do you do it??