Quarter Past Bedtime

I slept 8 hours last night. I woke up ready to go and with no problems.

Now I am exhausted. I am losing focus on things, find myself drifting and am all around dead tired. What happened to me?

Maybe a quick "cat nap" will help...or I could just fight through it. I would rather just sleep until tomorrow.

Good Night!

Disgruntled

Don't get me wrong, I love the holidays. I enjoy the hustle and bustle, the music, the lights...I enjoy it all. I enjoy the parties and events too.

What I don't enjoy, the disruption of my schedule. The older I get the more I like my routine. I like knowing that I have to get up at the same time everyday and my body knowing it too. I like knowing that I have to be at certain places at the same time every Monday or any other day. I like the routine. Not that I don't enjoy a little variety and some spontaneity on occasion, I do!

I have been going to bed so late ever since New Years. Staying up until 2am really threw my schedule off. Now at 12:30am I am begging myself to sleep. When the alarm goes off I am hitting the snooze button. I hate that! Normally I am awake a few minutes before the alarm and have plenty of time. Not this week.

Other than that though, I am happy my week has gotten back to normal. The next few months move so quickly, spring will be here before we know it.

Sleep and Movies

I would like to think that I am able to stay up late, get little sleep and be fine. The truth is somewhere around 30, that stopped being the case. I remember staying up all night multiple times and getting very little sleep and being ok. That is not the case now. Not at all. I am still feeling the affects of thursday night which bled into friday night. I have be up and out in the world in just a few hours and I am dying to go to bed. But my brain is saying, "what, we aren't going to bed at 2am?"

Anyway...I want to recommend a movie. I don't do it much but I saw Invictus this weekend and I loved it. Not just because Matt Damon is in it. The story is one that I really found to be thought provoking and because it is a true story, even more inspiring. Morgan Freeman was amazing as Mandela...truly amazing. I was the youngest person in the room by far when I saw it, but it was definitely worth watching.

Ok, I am off to try the sleep thing again. Enjoy the last of your holiday weekends!

Catch Up

So I realized that I have some catching up to do. I have vacation pictures to post still, pictures from the wedding, and all kinds of odds and ends to post as well! How did I get so behind! It is crazy.

So the goal this week is to get updated. And to add the new weeks worth of info.

I am hoping to get some sleep in sometime this week, but my weeks always seem to be so busy and then I forget/miss/don't have time for the things I really want or need to do. This week's goals:

1) go to the temple
2) update blog
3) clean kitchen floor (so icky!)
4) finish transferring old data to new computer
5) start on research

Whew. Ok, that is I said it out loud (or at least typed it) so that should help me get it all done, right?

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I finally got to sleep last night. I sleep every night, but I really got to just sleep until my body wanted to wake up and that my friends, is a beautiful thing! I only feel slightly bad that it was until 10:30 and that I used many precious Saturday hours in bed. I know it was worth it.

More vacation pictures soon to come. I have a full day ahead but I'll squeeze some time in.

Out with the Old, in with the...Old?

In the last few weeks I have been surrounded by tons of old high school and friends from various places I have lived, finding me online. Back in the day the internet was not as big a deal and I didn't keep up with many of them to but to have found some after all these years is kind of fun. But what do you say to someone that you were friends with in high school but haven't talked to in 12 years? hm? Yeah, I have no idea.

And friends from NC and SD have looked me up as well. It has been fun to chat with old friends and see where their lives have taken them.

I have been busy in the last week or so, so many things to do. Oddly good news is that the hormones I have been taking for my PCOS have worked (so far)! Which is great news. It means that I can start on my regular regimen soon and be close to normal. A blessing that I can not even begin to tell you how much it means to me.

A friend from last summer just came back to town this last week and it was fun to see him and chat with him a little. It is fun to have friends around. And seeing as all my friends (minus a slim few) are getting married and moving, I am very ok with having old friends come back.

Well, off to bed with me. The medicine kicked in and I feel much better now. So, sweet dreams and wonderful days my friends.

Sleep...

So I wrote a blog post all about what I have done over the past week. I have done a lot and not had the time to post it all, so I thought that I would do just one big one and call it good for the week. I type it up, make it pretty with pictures and am about to post and...my internet goes out. How annoying.

So I run to work a few minutes early to post an, "Golly-Gee-the-dog-ate-my-post" post.

If only bed wasn't so appealing! I mean really, what isn't to love? Warm, soft sheets, fluffy-yet-firm pillows to nest your head on, and depending on your likes and dislikes, a quilt/comforter/light blanket. Dreams still linger close and the hurry-go-go-GO! of the day is still far away. No clothes to have to pull on so they stay straight, or try to wipe clean quickly after a spill of your own (gosh, I feel clumsy) or of someone else's doing. Your hair is that beautiful, I-just-woke-up style that really, never goes out of style. So this, this is my ode to staying in bed.

Random Thoughts

Well today was full of odds and ends. I feel much better about today than yesterday. Today was by extension a part of yesterday, but it is all a part of my story, so sit back grab a drink and be ready...

Well it is the end of the semester as you all know and if you don't then you are new to me or the blog. I have been studying up a storm. Or at least trying to. Last night I just got into the groove and before I knew it I looked up and it was 2:30am. Yeah, I was a little unhappy about that. So I cleaned up my mess, or cleaned is not the right word. I rearranged my mess to make myself think I had "cleaned" and then headed to bed. I have a 10am class on Thursdays so I set my alarm for a lovely 9am wake-up call. So who wakes up and a bright and early time of 7:30am? If you guess me, you are right.

I do make it to class after scraping the nights snow off my car. I get to class which is Organizational Communication and we begin discussing parallelism in organizations as well as business strategy. Lots of fun! I actually really do enjoy it. I love my professor, he is the best professor I have had at WSU. He asks me hard questions and expects me to know which seems like it would be annoying but really it isn't. I like that he thinks that I am that smart. We get talking today about how stem cell research is a form of communication (you really don't want to know how we got there). Let me just say the class was in an uproar! Half the class was for it and half was opposed to stem cell research and it got crazy. But it was wonderful too. There is something about being involved in an intelligent debate about important and relevant issues. I loved the feeling, and those who know me will laugh, of stepping between the two sides and giving quick to the point synopsis of what the other side is saying and bringing it back to personal choice and aren't we all glad that we have it? There is something about being in that moment with the words just barely rolling off your tongue and the looks and the feeling of the group. I wish I could bottle it up and sell that feeling. I would buy it.

Then I went home and more studying awaited me. I did take a break to water my plants and I was excited to see my basil popping its head out. I have been waiting for it to show its self. I love new plants.

I went outside for an afternoon walk and came home to fall in love with the flowers in my flower bed all over again. I ran to the post office to mail some bills and then to work. How loverly! Why is it that I like to put "r" in things? I call my friend Ashley, Asherley because I like the way it sounds. Would it be odd to name a little girl that? I hope not.