Sunday, February 24, 2008

Today

Things I've Done Today
  • Gone to church.
  • Speak at church and show slides from Malta.
  • Initiate the possibility of a late spring retreat in Canmore with my youth kids
  • Send several emails
  • Eat leftover pancakes and a slice of back bacon for lunch
  • packaged a birthday gift for a friend
  • written a birthday card to go with the gift
  • bought a notebook to keep in my purse for those "I have to write that down" moments
  • gone to the post office to mail the birthday gift and card
  • hung out on my couch
  • bought some really great greeting cards (have you seen the Fresh Ink line from Hallmark? so suited to my sense of humor and that of my friends)
Things I Should Still Do Today (and may or may not accomplish)
  • bake muffins
  • wash dishes
  • clean my bedroom
  • work on a couple different writing projects
  • change the sheets on my bed
  • wash the dirty set of sheets
  • grocery shop
  • make some thank you cards
  • cook something (anything really) containing either fruit or vegetables
  • go through a stack of mail that accumulated while I was away
  • return the dvds I rented on Monday

Reverting

My sleep schedule is completely messed up. And I've been home for two weeks now, so I can't blame it on jet lag.

I blame it on a couple of friends. They know who they are.

They messed up my life by introducing me to some really deep things. And now, I don't sleep. I dream, I see things, but I don't do a lot of sleeping. (Although, to be fair, I've never been known for my ability to sleep.)

But that's not the point of this post. The point is, I like weekends.

On weekends, I can take life slow, and I can revert to my natural night owl state. I can be sitting here, at 12:43 am, writing a post for you, instead of lying in bed, attempting sleep. I don't have to worry (too much) about the next morning, because I usually don't have plans. Or, if I do have plans, I can always take a nap later in the day. (Have I mentioned that I liked the whole "siesta" thing from noon-4 every day in Malta?)

Tomorrow night I'll attempt to be in bed by midnight, with my lights out. Because that's about when I normally go to bed. But tonight? the sky's the limit baby!

(okay, so, this is the last thing I'm doing, with the possible exception of reading a bit of a novel before sleep, but I COULD stay up if I wanted to!)

Real thoughts to come after sleeping... good night!