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FAIL! (19.5/30)
I totally failed to post yesterday. I got into this routine of posting after the kids are in bed, you know, when I actually have something from the day to recount? So it was going swimmingly. Until yesterday when somehow, some way, I passed out at 8pm (and wake up sometime, ahem, after 8am).
I wish I could say, for my failure, I got a good night sleep in exchange. Not so. I actually woke up a million and one times (I counted) for a wide variety of reasons. Unlike many people, I don’t suffer from insomnia. Instead I suffer from perpetual light-sleep. If there is something on my mind, I will sleep! But I will wake constantly, think about it for approximately 30 seconds and pass out again. Sometimes I will dream about it. Both of those lead to just awful nights of sleep, waking up feeling hung over. It feels like sleep torture. I’d almost rather have insomnia – at least I’d get stuff done in the meantime! And I wouldn’t be a 30 day FAIL!!!
So what was I thinking about all night long?
1) blogging! I knew I needed to get up and do it but always fell asleep in those 30 seconds between waking and convincing myself to get up. I swear I must have thought about getting up at least a dozen times over the course of the night. See? I really did not WANT to fail!
2) the Madonna verdict which was set to be released at 3am. Even though I knew how it would go, I was still anticipating it enough to lose sleep apparently. Good thing I didn’t realize just what a sh!tstorm my day would be as a result or I’d have lost even more sleep.
3) the Iranian elections, which I’ve been excited about. I don’t know what it is – 2008 Election hangover?!? The drama has not disappointed. If you are interested in following along, log into tweetchat.com with your Twitter user and pass and enter the room #iranelection or #iranelections for news. I’m in favor of Mousavi because he tweets. Do you need a better reason?!!
4) My big kids had a movie sponsored by their orthodontist to attend this morning. It required that we (read: Tony) take them long before they (or I) wake up and for whatever reason I was concerned about them making it in time. Tony must have been concerned too because he got up on his own at least an hour before he usually does which is already an hour or more before he needed to.
5) Right before I unexpectedly passed out, Teegan came in my room to tell me about the plot of the book he’s currently reading. I tried to follow along until he took a right turn onto Nerd Boulevard and started complaining about the evolutionary inaccuracies of the book. My kids do this all.the.time. It makes me nuts. I argue that its FICTION and therefore not required to be accurate. The counter is, I suppose, that it is SCIENCE fiction and, as such, SCIENCE NERDS expect at least the SCIENCE to be accurate so they can enjoy the fiction. Whatever. I humored him for a second before he lost me completely. Something about butterflies wings changing the terrain of the world and chaos theory somethingsomething and I tried to be smart. I said “Oh are you talking about that Butterfly Effect thingy?” trying to sound, you know, at least as knowledgeable as my 11 year old. He sort of sighed, rolled his eyes and explained that he supposed I could apply the butterfly effect indirectly (which I think he went on to explain but by then I stopped even pretending to follow along) but this is a little different. Honestly maybe the conversation went nothing like this at all. I really couldn’t follow any of it. Except when I heard about butterflies and thought I’d feign intelligence. And failed. It was approximately 2.2 seconds after he gave up on me that I completely passed out, hard. I blame him, completely.
So here I am. Still feeling hung over and warn out from my 12 hours of restless pseudosleep. I’ll do SIX things tonight to make up for it but I don’t promise they will be high quality :):
1) I’m grateful that Noah has shown great interest in world religions and has, especially, been practicing meditation very hard (much harder than me). If there is a child in this world that could benefit from meditation, it is Noah.
2) I’m grateful that our orthodontist rents out the theater and takes all the patients (and their friends) to the movies complete with popcorn, drinks and candy (I wonder what the fall out is from this for the office? Do they have to spend the entire day fixing snapped wires from all the inappropriate treats?!?!) and freebies. Dalton took Teegan and they got to see Up.
3) I’m grateful for the compliment my husband gave me last night on my parenting particularly because I was not even aware of my response to the event in question that he noticed and it was really nice (and rare) of him to notice at all and take the time to compliment me.
4) I’m grateful for the 2 minutes in the pool today that I felt happiness and joy the likes of which I have not felt in years.
5) I’m grateful that I got to talk to Laurie yesterday! Call me more often, woman!!!
6) I’m grateful for my nerdy 11 year old and 14 year old. Even if they exhaust me with their theorems (no shit, I just totally spelled theorems wrong which just shows how much of a dolt I am, thank you spell check!), critical judgments of inaccuracies everywhere and endless diatribes containing too many Latin names, I am still proud of them. Clearly I can not take credit :)
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i am the same way are you. a LIGHT sleeper. it sucks when you have lots on your mind.
i love your boys. i mean that is CUTE teegan came to tell you the inaccuracies cute.
love, love them.
i havent seen the news today. awful. so was the ruling overturned in the madonna case??? say what???? looking on line right now.
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Ethan is the same way with things like, language-related. I’ll randomly start singing a song, and he’ll interrupt me: “That doesn’t rhyme.” LOL!
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