Sleepy and looking at the list...

Tim and I have a big week of entertaining ahead of us, starting today. His mother and her husband are coming to spend 6 days gabbing, eating, and generally "catching up" on the three years its been since we've seen her. I'm staunchly pro-family (just as I'm staunchly pro-choice) and I anticipate these whirlwinds with glee and dread. I wouldn't miss it for the world but I know I'm going to be dog dead tired in the end.

Just to ensure that I wasn't facing the week with sleep deprivation, I took a sleep aid last night. It's not one of those ones that puts you to sleep (not a problem) it's just one that keeps you asleep (nirvana.) The only downside is that you wake up feeling heavy and you spend an hour or so in the morning just being a little slow. On a weekend, I groove on this big time. On the weekdays, I sit at my work computer, looking at my always huge to-do list like it was written in Czech and wait for the coffee to kick in.

Still, I'll take it, because I know the rest of the mornings this week will slowed by genuine exhaustion that no pill will help (at least no pill I'm willing to take) and my todo list will morph from Czech to Kanji.