this woman’s work

1. I’ve never cooked the holiday turkey or hosted the dinner. We always go to my dad’s or to my inlaw’s and I’m more than ok with that. Tomorrow I’m in charge of bringing the soda pop — this I can do.
2. I am totally wired on caffeine from the strong coffee my friend served me. I mean WIRED. I mean I can barely focus on the computer screen. I am so not going to sleep tonight. I realized it was stronger than I thought after I already drank most of it and I was tripping over the conversation because my brain was going too fast. Then I got paranoid that I was babbling. I would be such a bad drug addict.
3. I had insomnia last night, too. Dang holidays.
4. I need to work on marketing again. (sigh) I’d really like to get some regular repeat gigs so I wouldn’t have to be constantly replacing closed out projects. I’m feeling a little burned out and just want to work for crying out loud.
5. And the economy? Scaring the hell out of me. Maybe it isn’t the holidays that are giving me insomnia.
6. Pennie might be coming to T-day at my dad’s tomorrow because she’d like to spend more holidays with us but she has other demands, too. I hope she can swing it. I also invited her to sleep over Christmas eve but again, she has a broad and busy life so we’ll see. More Pennie is more fun than less Pennie.
7. My dawnfriedman.com hosting account expired and I thought I’d switched it over to a new server but hadn’t. Oops. Now I know why it didn’t get any hits for a week.
8. My horoscope keeps telling me I’m going to be rolling in money soon. If the money doesn’t come through soon, I’m totally suing the astrologer. Or maybe I’ll just quit reading her column — I haven’t decided yet.
9. We bought light orange paint for our family room and then after Brett put the first coat on we noticed the color changed weirdly in artificial light. It went from light orange to neon yellow. Since the chip didn’t do that, we think they mixed the paint wrong. He got a new batch two days ago but now we’re paranoid. He’s going to paint this weekend and meanwhile we are living in chaos.
10. Did I mention that I’m wired?
11. Friday we are going to a left-overs potluck although we won’t have left-overs. Maybe we’ll just bring soda pop again. Saturday we’re having dinner with the inlaw’s to make up for missing Thanksgiving with them (they’re going out of town anyway). Sunday we will rest. Ok, I’ll work and Brett will paint but at least we won’t be social.
12. Quinn is getting lots of earrings. The girl deserves ‘em!

Happy thanksgiving for those of you who celebrate!

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