I. Need. Sleep.

Monday, August 27, 2007

It really irks me that I have to sleep. I waste 4-7 hours a night sleeping when I could be doing something else. The list of which is probably a good mile long at this point. But first and foremost, I could be working.

It's a sad state of affairs when your work so consumes your life that you feel a bit guilty going to bed. I know it's insane and thinking this way just shows how bizarre I am, but I'm surely not the first person to consider this. Especially when you're always in a state of needing to catch up.

J and I keep talking about how this week we'll be caught up. We site and make grandiose plans of how we'll use our spare time and how much fun we'll have actually spending time together as a family. But, inevitably, life gets in the way. A client has a minor emergency, another one is running behind themself, the phone rings 10 times too many, email flows in thick and heavy... and before you know it, the week is up and we're still behind. Sigh.

Last night I was up until 6:30am getting a a client's site finished up and working on my charssi.com site during short break times. We were closed from end of May until yesterday and it took quite a bit of work to implement a reward program that we meant to do over the summer. What's that about the best laid plains of mice and men? Once again, life gets in the way...

Now I'm loopy today. Got about 4 hours sleep and if my eye would quit bulging from its socket and the stupid elves would stop jackhammering in my head, I'd be ok. I think. It's weird to work in that strange twilight world where you know you're here and awake, but you catch yourself thinking it's a dream. It's all so surreal.

Bed has never looked so good. If I can just get through this day and into bed at a reasonable time tonight/early tomorrow morning, I think I'll be ready for tomorrow.

In the meantime, I think I'd like my super power to be the ability to stop time. For everyone except me. I could get SO much done and then sleep, sleep, sleep before turning it back on again to enjoy my now unfettered life. If I started feeling the pressure of real life kicking in, I could stop time for a bit and have some recouping time. The more I think about this, the more cool it seems. I could be The Time Princess. Yeah. I'd be mistress of the universe with that power! And I could have a LOT of fun. Moving cars, locking people out of houses, helping myself to the contents of the bank vault. One could definitely get into serious trouble if they could stop time. Maybe it's not such a great idea after all!

Back to work I go.