Sentences with phrase «too swamped»

We hired out the tile work on this job because we were frankly just too swamped to do it ourselves.

Then each time it was time to buy another house, I was way too swamped with work and family stuff to invest the time needed to learn the process well.

Nora's parents were too swamped to listen to the specific preferences of any of their seven children.

(Always a good thing - ER) I welcome and appreciate your feedback, and if I'm not too swamped I'll do my best to reply to some selected comments.

If you're too swamped at work to find the time for a side gig, consider inquiring about a promotion or raise.

Even if the HR manager is too swamped to provide individual training, the task can still get done.

Fathers no longer run the fish - fry fundraisers, for example, and mothers are too swamped to help in the classroom.

Free... To have a free and playful spirit is such a rarity nowadays... Either we're all too swamped in our day - to - day lives with all of the problems (smaller or bigger ones), endless schedules, routines, etc. that I have a feeling many of us forget to be in touch with ourselves... We forget to listen to our souls and follow the voice «inside» of us that is so often being «shut down» because we still have this one more thing to do that we might not really feel like, but we have to, or we have this one more place we have to go to, worrying that we're missing out in life if we don't go, etc..

Well, not willingly — a week or two back, Warren's campaign for Massachusetts senator was running online display ads asking for donations to her «response fund» to reply to the television attacks Rove's American Crossroads had launched against her (I was too swamped...

I was going to leave work and meet her and our sitter there but I'm too swamped.

For those of you too swamped to watch the whole thing right now, the money line from Sun is this: «I happen to be in a world that's run by men, and yet Poshmark is all about women.

If you're not sure where you'd like to be in five years or are way too swamped to take on another responsibility, be prepared for a mentor to call you out on this, or just sit out the relationship entirely.

Not exact matches

While we often feel to swamped with work, or too tired for leisure reading, research from the University of Liverpool's Centre for Research into Reading, Literature and Society found that reading made people feel happier and more satisfied with with lives, overall.

can't make it to the national press club to see you tonight, and that will (i hope, for you) be swamped too.

Before the world is awake (and sometimes before the sun is, too), New York is so quiet that, if I squint hard enough and completely forget about the sidewalk swamps and drippy air conditioners, it reminds me of the slow - lived serenity of Japan.

I love him to bits but Man City and Spurs particularly are too high energy midfields that just swamp him.

A conservation that meant merely a prevalence of tennis courts over vacant lots, of golf courses over swamps and housing developments, of scenic vistas over factories and roadside advertising might well be discounted as a too - expensive luxury.

I'd just like to say that I too was locked out of the Swamp on that night back in, gasp, 1971.

And then every week, too, some shockers appear from nowhere, bubbling up from the Westminster news swamp.

Be mindful, though: your frame can be swamped with too much fabric and print, so stick with form fitting cuts to show «em what you've got!

I rarely think people look good in maxi dresses as they either swamp or are way too tight!

I don't really do fussy or prints because I like clean lines - that's possibly because I'm only 5ft 2in and too much detail appears to swamp me.

Then it is either too tight / short, or swamps me, even if theoretically it will fit.

I'm just about swamped in terms of work these days — I still work my full time job in marketing, and now I'm a real estate agent too!

You are far far too petite and pretty to be so swamped by so obviously over-sized clothing, well made and fashionable as this suit might be.

I'm little too so it's great to be able to make dresses that don't swamp me!

Whether they're swamped with work, just got out of a serious relationship, or are too shy to put themselves out there, they're struggling to meet the women they want to meet.

Elizabeth Banks plays the owner of a baby store whose absurdly idealized birth plan, in an irony too obvious to pass up, gets swamped by a rough pregnancy.

But like father, like daughter: When the school bully pushes Maddy too far on the playground one day, she fights back with a few Bourne - worthy movies, setting off a chain reaction that leads the boy's humiliated, meth - head mother (Kate Bosworth) to sic her swamp kingpin brother Gator (James Franco) on Broker, who proves so invincible against all comers that it piques Gator's curiosity.

The way of life is threatened in Venice, too, where everything from public piazzas to shopping malls routinely get swamped during high tide.

But a high school in bayou country proved too small for Hess, who's become one of the biggest wonks in the onetime (and sometimes still) swamp that is Washington, D.C.

Instead of being swamped with too much at one go, a new employee can digest the information in bite - sized chunks.

«The review confirms what all education ministers are hearing from parents and teachers that there's simply too much to try to learn, and students and teachers are swamped,» he said.

The ride is far too soft and the engine too weak to go churning through swamps and soft sand.

But she ultimately discovers, after taking a hard fall outside their home, that «systems won't ever win» (57) and «playing things too safe would swamp us» (85).

By reviewing from the big five a reader can request and receive a limited number of books, review books already owned, and check out library books all without feeling swamped under a to be read pile that is much too large for any reader.

Another is too slippery and slimy, as a green - hued spread depicts a swamp - like scene of frogs and lily pads (how did this determined little boy get a chair onto a lily pad?).

John has been in love with comics since he was first given an issue of «Swamp Thing» at way too young an age.

Having too many beta readers swamps the new writer with advice, and that isn't always helpful.

As far as regulators are concerned, Bitcoin is a deep and dangerous swamp too closely linked to the dark net.

It is just too unsettling swimming in the mezzanine swamp, as contrasted with either being a senior creditor, a holder of high grade equities, or an investor involved with business development.

They, too, said they were swamped.

There are too many land mines and hidden traps scattered in this swamp.

I hate to keep bothering her because I know she's swamped since she's covering for our vet too.

Sounds like it was swamped and that things maybe weren't too pristine for you guys.

If I can venture into the realm of speculation, here's what strikes me as the most obvious explanation for the decision to remove published award charts from their website: Delta's new award charts were too complicated, they were producing unfamiliar results, and Delta's phone lines were being swamped.

Also you can do this at Southern Swamp too.

In the dead of night, I'm wading through a deep swamp that's hindering my movement, feeling far too vulnerable for my own good.

By the way... Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi said in 1986, «Atari collapsed because they gave too much freedom to third - party developers and the market was swamped with rubbish games.»

There is a unique warmth here, too: the cultural influence of New Orleans and its environs seeps from the swamps to the streets and into the soundtrack.