hurry up and wait? no thanks!

I feel like I do a lot of waiting around here. We hurry up to get stuff done, only to wait. Wait for the toast to pop up, wait for the mail, wait for the phone to ring, wait for e-mail responses, wait for groups to arrive, wait for the next meal so i can do set up, wait for the meal to be over so i can do KP, wait for bedtime, wait for morning, wait for days off, wait for retreats, wait for things to do, wait for, wait for, wait for. I don't want to spend my life waiting for stuff. I want to be a good steward of the time I have here on Earth, and I want to think that each moment should be experienced in and of itself, not waiting for what the next moment is going to be. But I don't really know how to do that. I don't really know how to be completely in the moment. I know there are times when i have been completely in the moment, not thinking of the past or the future, but just what is happening right at that instant. I wish I could live in that frame of mind more often.