If you didn’t catch that, I have a five day weekend coming up. :)
I will be spending part of the weekend with my mom and some of her girlfriends and their daughters somewhere in the middle of nowhere…cooking, drinking, floating a river (but not THE river) and having a good time. The rest of the weekend will probably be spent by the pool, hanging out with friends, getting some things done around my house and just relaxing. It’s going to be really hard to “turn off” work, but I am going to try my hardest.
“…I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into words, but I guess it’s like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.” — Haruki Murakami (via kari-shma)
When I was in high school/college I had a lot of sleeping problems. I would find myself sitting up in bed in the middle of the night. I never remembered tossing and turning or waking up, I would just sort of come-to and be sitting up in bed.
The last few months I have been having some sleeping problems again. I wake up at 2am almost every morning. I think the exception to waking up at 2am is when I come home at 2am. I have been sleeping so much on the weekends, when it comes Sunday night, I have slept so much that I can’t fall asleep at a reasonable time.
Take last night for example…this weekend I had a late and sort of crazy Friday night. I did nothing on Saturday during the day. I went to dinner and hung out with some friends on Saturday night, but was home and in bed by about 10pm. On Sunday, I slept until about 8:30am, worked out, ran errands, read some magazines, etc. and then last night, I was awake, in bed until about 1am. And then awake around 2am. Then my alarm went off at 6:40am. And I snoozed until 7am. Today I had three caffeinated beverages and at 3pm I could have leaned over on my desk and passed out.
I am not really sure what to do, but I sort of feel like one of those people in the Ambien commercials - “Need help falling asleep and staying asleep?” YES! That is me. Maybe I should see a doctor…it’s only been…YEARS since I have been to a doctor for a normal check up/physical. I don’t even have a general practitioner in Dallas. I have every other type of doctor, but not a regular, old doctor.
Great, now I am going to be worrying about not being able to sleep and finding a doctor that I won’t be able to sleep tonight.
“We women can’t just go walking around being so awesome and not have to be careful not to make guys fall in love with us all over the place.” — Meg Cabot, Airhead (via todayithought) (via quote-book)
I won’t be spending a full week in my office for the next three weeks.
Vacation day this Friday, off for Labor Day, vacation day the Tuesday after Labor Day and then spending a week traveling for work.
Since it hasn’t been a million degrees outside lately, I have been walking in the park across from my house. I am glad the sidewalk around the entire park is finally finished. It’s actually an extension (Phase III) of the Katy Trail.
The last few days I have noticed the eclectic mix of people who are spending time at the park - a few boys football teams practicing, guys play soccer and softball, girls taking tennis lessons, a boot camp group, dog walkers, moms pushing strollers, a homeless woman sitting on a bench doing a crossword puzzle (the same one I see shopping at Kroger on Sundays, probably because they give out free samples), two guys playing rugby, two guys playing lacrosse, couples - both straight and gay, runners and an old guy reading a book.
It’s sort of refreshing to observe what’s going on and see so many different types of people just doing their own thing. And it’s even better to know that I can find that in my neighborhood.
“For what it’s worth: It’s never too late, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have strength to start all over again.” — Benjamin Button (via quote-book)
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“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” — Ralph Emerson (via tinyunicorn) (via luxuriousvulgarity) (via sailingonthesea)
“Why do we care too much of what people think? It just shows how insecure we actually feel of ourselves.” — Ernestasia Rahel Siahaan (via quote-book)