Saturday Schedule

• Marinade Steaks for BBQ party.
• Drop niece off at her house after a movie and sleepover night.
• Make Marshmallow-Fudge Brownies for BBQ party.
• Make Citrus-Shrimp Salad for BBQ party.
• Get Notes prepared for Sunday Meeting.
• Finalize lesson I am teaching for Relief Society on Sunday.
• Assign PrettyPrettyPrincess to use Magic Eraser to "erase" her name from old dollhouse.
• Assign FunnyMan and LittleDuckling to load doll house into van.
• Drive to see old college roomie.
• Unload old dollhouse for old college roomie's daughter.
• Stay and visit with old college roomie for BBQ & slip-n-slide (kids, not me!) par-tay.
• Eat salad, steak, a smidge of a brownie and her Authentic Japanese Potstickers!!!!!!!!!
• Drive home stuffed and tired and ready for beddy-bye :)

Yep... should be a good one!

The Lists

In case you haven't noticed or been paying close attention, I DO.NOT.SLEEP.

I am a clinically diagnosed insomniac. It's true. Someone once asked what an insomniac "does" instead of sleep. I answered, "BLOG!" hahaha!

Here is how it works for me. If I try to lay down before 11pm, I will toss and turn until 2am, feeling like I have just wasted so much time. I no longer try to go to bed before 11pm. It's pointless. I rarely even try to go to be before midnight. My goal: Go to sleep sometime between 12am-2am. On the nights I succeed, I will ALWAYS wake up at 3am, again at 330am, again at 4am, 4:30am... well, you get the idea. However, most nights, I fall asleep between 2am and 4am and THEN wake up only every hour until about 6:30am.

The question then begs, "What keeps me up at night?" Well, truthfully, what DOESN'T???

Love. Thoughts. Ideas. Love. Money. School. Love. Children. Health. Church. Love. Ideas. Thoughts. Love. More Thoughts. More Ideas. Love. Love. Love. ...you get the idea...

So, what do I do about all of these thoughts and ideas? I make lists. No, I do not keep a pencil and notepad by my bed. However, I *DO* keep my blackberry phone AND my laptop by my bed. Mostly, I make lists in my phone's memo-pad or add to the already-growing lists. On really bad nights, I will actually get up, turn on the laptop and blog away. I've also been known to drum up some fliers for the church activity or an invite to a child's party, etc.

Oh! You wanna know my lists? Well, ok... but I *WARN* you, they are RANDOM... (i know, big surprise)...

Without further adieu... my lists:

5k training tips
Baby names I like (and no, i am not even planning on having a baby *anytime* soon)
Blog Topics
Bucket list
iTunes wish list
Movies to see
Races
Things to Google
Things to tell Big-D (this one is basically empty, which probably causes me the most stress ever)


I know what y'all are thinking... "That's what keeps you up???" Well, yeah, see they don't call it Insomnia for nothing! :)

The Non-Post Post

I have so many posts I am working on. Non ready for today, however. I know - sad. I have been kicking my work-outs up a notch. Same 3 miles, but working harder at them, trying to increase speed, decrease time, add strength training every other day plus a 5-10 mile bike "ride" 1-2 times per week. And y'know what? I am TIRED! Whew.

Ergo, today is a Non-Post Post. Tomorrow we will be back to our regularly scheduled bloggy-program.

Here's my to-do list for the next few days.

• take out "junk" to curb for neighborhood clean-up (has to be done tonight. they come tomorrow @ 8am!)
• clean house
• organize bedroom
• get more laundry done (kids have been helping with this as their "spring break chore")
• spend time with sis's family for Easter. (gotta sink my teeth into somma that hammy!)
• fill in the gaps with flirts, giggles, and my usual shenanigans (my co-workers tell me that the "substitute" FedEx guy may have dropped a hint yesterday... mmm... men in uniform...)

'nuff said. What are y'all doing for Easter this weekend? Big plans? No plans?