wandering sails

who needs sleep?

i've been tired. very tired. just on this side of functioning tired. so tired some days that i really ought to have just stayed in bed and taken care of the tired thing. but i haven't. because i've had things to do. and just what have i been doing for two weeks, you ask? let me tell you, because i'm still fairly tired and have been having a hard time thinking about what to write, and this gives me an answer...

two weeks ago, i'd just been given some really hard news, which reminded me of some other hard stuff i had chosen not to deal with. i was forced to deal with things at least a little bit, because my back burner was getting pretty full and threatening to make a pretty big mess if i didn't deal. so i did that.

i played with a couple of my absolute favorite girls one night, so their parents could go out. i did that.

i hung out with my friend, kathy, another night. we were going to work on something, but she was so tired that we just watched a movie. i cannot remember which movie, but i'm pretty sure i was awake for the whole thing. i did that. i also got a really good night's sleep that night on a couch, which was good, because i was going to need it.

last weekend, mama jean picked me up from work and we headed up to timber bay. i'm always so thankful when i don't have to ride in the van with the girls. not that i don't love them and enjoy them, it's just that they're so loud. and it's a small space to be in with so many loud teenage girls. i spent the weekend running around with these girls i have come to call my girls. i swam for about six hours or so. and i do mean swam. at the shallowest part of the area we swam in, if i stood on my tippy-toes and tilted my head back, i wasn't sucking in water. so, i was treading water or swimming in it virtually the whole time. it's a great workout. especially when you have three or four girls with lifejackets on that think they're going to drown if they don't hang on to you and push you down to keep them up. that's fun. and i love it. how empty my life would seem without these girls in it. we shut lights off at or after midnight every night and i was up by six or seven each morning. it was great. so i did that.

monday, we had a storm in the middle of the day that took our power, so they sent us all home early. i layed. that's all i did the entire afternoon into the evening. then i made dinner, did the dishes and some laundry, went to bed.

tuesday, i left work and by the time i was five miles down the interstate, i was soaked. it was so hot. so i stopped and bought a new shirt and then met my mom for dinner at this great little corner cafe. after that, we met her friend at their church and scrapbooked. i mostly organized my 2005 stuff, but i did get a couple of layouts in, which feels good, since i haven't had time to scrap at all lately. so i did that.

wednesday, i met my friend lyndsay and we drove down to edina. organized living is going out of business, we discovered, so we paid the store a visit. then, we walked around the little park behind my lab, i don't actually know what it's called, but we did that for a few hours, took some pictures and just caught up with each other. so i did that.

yesterday, i had to run a few errands after work, so i didn't get home until about 8, then i made dinner, watched a bit of tv and went to bed by 9:30. it was a good night.

tonight, i am agendaless. it's a wonderful feeling. in fact, most of my weekend will be spent gardening, cleaning and relaxing. and i will do that.

posted by julie @ 10:00 AM