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I'm tired. Head below the dingledoodlesquiggliedividerthingie fold while I grab a pillow and join you...
It was a long, tiring weekend at Casa Brillig - K1 had a 3-day swim meet, Friday night followed by Saturday and Sunday mornings. Oh... by morning I mean "have to leave the house at 6am because warmups are at 7am", and which translates to a 5am alarm for Mr. Brillig and I. I don't know about you, but in my world that's still night. We got to sleep early Friday night, but Saturday night we stayed up late, figuring we'd be home by 2pm and could nap. Nope! K1 made finals in her event for the first time ever, meaning we had to be back at the pool at 4:15 - which, don't get me wrong, we were absolutely thrilled with (ObProudParent - she's taken off nearly two seconds on her 50 Free in a year, and in her two races on Sunday nearly 0.4 seconds. Yes, that's a lot :-)). It did mean we were pretty much unconscious by 9pm, and have been trying to catch up ever since.
I sat down w coffee this morning and fired up Facebook, where a friend had posted this status update and said I could share it here:
I spend most of my time exhausted from lack of sleep. I've got so many things going on that I've trained myself to function on 5-6 hours of sleep a night. But the things I'm doing are so rewarding that I get my energy from participation. I don't always win, but I go down swinging. When I die I will know I've left my mark on the world. It's left it's mark on me but it's a happy face.
My first thought was Hey, that sounds like something I'd say.
In general, I get around 6 hours of sleep a night during the week, and depending on what's going on get either a few hours more or a few hours less on weekends. I've done this for decades, ever since I got out of undergraduate and had to become a Regularly Scheduled Person. I know without having to check Wikipedia that this makes me sleep-deprived and that were I to go to bed earlier every evening, I'd be all sorts of better physically, mentally, etc etc.
But I don't want to go to sleep earlier. I want to continue doing the things I do all day: caring for my family, seeing friends, reading books, making sure K1 gets to swimming and K2 to his events, being active in church, listening to music, talking politics and hanging with friends each evening in Second Life and yes, even playing Angry Birds before shutting off the nightstand light.
So I'll keep drinking my liquid sleep coffee, looking a little bleary-eyed, and living life to the fullest. There will be time to sleep... later. So how about you - do you need your full night of rest to function, or are you part of Sleep Deprivation Nation?
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The mailbox was very quiet today... I'm assuming everyone is tired :)
From tofumagoo:
kestrel9000's diary about a female Virginia State Senator's response to a bill which would force women to have sonograms before getting an abortion is funny by itself. Then macdust comments that there is a national shortage of sonographers, and raincrow's wicked response to that absolutely tickled my snark bone.
From Dragon5616:
JekyllnHyde always finds the best cartoons. I especially enjoyed the artwork in this one in kos' Florida election liveblog #2.
From Yours Truly, brillig:
Chris Bowers' diary World Net Daily notices our petition calling for an investigation of James O'Keefe for voter fraud gives us a hilarious thread on George Soros begun by David Kroning II. PS - George, I think you have my EFT info wrong, I haven't gotten my payout in months!
In Internal Republican poll confirms Americans think House GOP sucks Hunter says "So it looks like the plan is to go back to "what works," which appears to be doing exactly the same crap as normal, but saying it's "for jobs" and calling it done." elfling helpfully brings us a new game to play!
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Top Mojo for yesterday, January 30th, first comments and tip jars excluded. Thank you mik for the mojo magic!
1) I Hope People Take This To Heart by webranding — 196
2) I reported the page to FB under "violence" by weatherdude — 181
3) Claiming that hetero sex can't transmit AIDS by lgmcp — 110
4) I saw this on the Stephanie Miller site by ontheleftcoast — 97
5) You really by DianeNYS — 93
6) Fucking sad this has to be taught. by The Dead Man — 89
7) I am fighting to minimize the damage by FishOutofWater — 89
8) To Be Honest My Dad by webranding — 88
9) That'll do it... have them report to FBI and by noise of rain — 86
10) When you reported FB, you stopped one initial by Ohiodem1 — 84
11) My general ambivalence about Williams aside, by Vita Brevis — 84
12) Cue the faux outrage by Dirk McQuigley — 83
13) Indeed. I now know where I will be eating when by The Troubadour — 81
14) I reported it by PaulVA — 81
15) that has to be photo shoped. by Friend of the court — 81
16) I hope so! by Mindful Nature — 81
17) Because the dog by Barbara Morrill — 80
18) Ireland & Hawaii don't allow snakes to be imported by FishOutofWater — 80
19) Don't just stop at drugs by crystal eyes — 77
20) If they are going by SilverWillow — 74
21) You are so smart and sensible! Props for by Observerinvancouver — 74
22) parts of us by sow hat — 72
23) In Washington state by notrouble — 72
24) Well, you don't actually have to do anything by NearlyNormal — 71
25) Back in the early 1900s by karmsy — 71
26) So that is why the Republicans by Horace Boothroyd III — 70
27) They don't have a shadow of a prayer in this by elwior — 67
28) Happy Moonday, all! by NormAl1792 — 67
29) You thought I was joking, didn't you? by Bush Bites — 66
30) Teh awesome, Martha Boggs haz it! n/t by nannyboz — 66
31) happee moondai by Debbie in ME — 66
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Top Pictures for yesterday, January 30th. Thank you jotter for the image magic!