Social media burned my bacon.

Sad, but edible.

Yes, I am totally blaming Twitter, Facebook, Pintrest, and this here website for burning my bacon.  I normally consider myself an amazing multitasker, but when I was trying to retweet the funny stuff, stalk my friends, pin fabulous meals, maintain the blog expectations of my fan, make perfectly crisp bacon, and mediate the ritual Saturday morning battle between the kids on video game time violations - it was the bacon that suffered.  As you can imagine, I was in disbelief that I could fall short of handling more than a couple tasks.

Thankfully, I have found scientific reasoning to comfort and rectify me. We all know you can’t argue with science (or your mother-in-law - another scientific fact). 

According to an article on Sciencemag.org, multitasking splits our brain and we only have two hemispheres for task management. So, despite what we women constantly appear to prove otherwise, the brain can’t effectively handle more than two things at one time.  Some scientists feel that you can add a third task, but it really depends on the task and the part of the brain it uses.  Keep in mind, multitasking is being able to switch rapidly between tasks, not performing multiple tasks at the same time.

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“...people are remarkably good at eating while doing other things...because the practiced motor skills involved in eating don’t overlap too heavily with those that interpret visual cues, control language, or run other complex processes.”

TheJaneDough.com

And we all know that keeping up with our friends on social media, managing children, and making bacon all require complex processes.  I can't blame the kids and I certainly can't blame the bacon, so...

I would venture to say that we women have the upper hand in the multitasking arena, but that’s probably a whole other blog post.  Or, you could read this article about how women spend 48.3 hours per week multitasking while at home compared to a man’s 38.9. But what’s really interesting is that the article states that men are more likely to be pleased with themselves for multitasking, where women were stressed.  

Clearly, what this article is saying is that my husband should cook the bacon.

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