FRIDAY!!!!

i am doing cartwheels this morning, i am so happy. not only is this wretched week over, but my computer died yesterday and i was really starting to panic. i turned it on this morning, then took a hot bath and read a little, trying to enjoy my morning. i came in to see it up and running again!! it just decided it needed a break and refused to work until today. which prompts me to turn my computer off more. i need a break from it as well! i spend all my free time checking e-mail and i need to pull away from it and just enjoy a cup of coffee and a good book. i actually have found a way to have the time for those things now, and i'm feeling really good about that. so take the time! do it!

the answer to having down time is:

prepare yourself. it's brilliant. no one has ever thought of it before.

here it is: get up earlier.

DUH!!! why didn't i think of this until now? if you get up at the crack of dawn, work out, get your nagging to-do list somewhat under control, and make your plans for the day, ALL WHILE STILL HALF ASLEEP ~ by the time you really wake up and have had your coffee, you're good to go!!! what was i doing sleeping that extra few hours in the morning? did it make me less tired during the day? no, because i was so stressed out all day trying to fit it all in that i would be a zombie by the end of the night.

i hope this plan does not offend all my hard-working moms out there, who get up at the crack of dawn to get their kids to day care or school or whatever. i know you get up because you have to, and i'm saying i choose to get up so that i can have down time and get more done. that's why i'm going to let you have the wonderful children and i'm going to be selfish aunt sarah.

so now i get up at 5:45 and get going.

well, not this week. this week was a mess. but it's over now, right? so let's put it behind us, trying not to look down at the muffin top hanging over my skirt, and get on with the weekend!!!

which looks like it might be a rainy one here in kansas city. fine by me. bring on the rain! it's my first week of the pixy wagon lunch biz and i will be cooking all weekend anyway. OH JOY.

off to costco to join the other suburban moms. ha!