10 Days and Addiction

Only 10 days until Anna gets to the US! Which also means 10 days until my birthday. I currently have that day off so that I can go and see Anna when she gets picked up at the airport. The thought of not being there is tragic. However, that would require me to come home really late Tuesday night (working 4 10s), have little to do in the morning, see her for a couple hours in the afternoon and then I would have to leave again. She has dinner plans with her Dad, I believe. The weekend following is 4th of July weekend, and would be a much more logical time to take off. Problem is, probably everyone else already is and I don't want to inconvenience my employer.

I guess I'll have to think on that.

This will be my first week doing four tens. I am kind of nervous. If I get in there and start working at 8am, I won't be able to leave until 6:30pm. That is certainly a long day. I don't have tons of groceries right now, so I'm going to need to go shopping. In addition, I need to clean because I left some cleaning projects only half way done. I want to cook extra meals so that I have lunches for the week. I didn't do any trip planning this weekend, even though I really need to. Plus - my addiction (which I will explain later) - is taking up a lot of my time. I'm not quite sure how I will fit that into my evenings. My current plan is this:

-Go to bed by 10:30 tonight, and try and get to bed as early as possible each night thereafter.
-Wake up at 6am, drink my coffee and pump my bike tires. Luckily, I don't need to shower
-Get to work as early as possible - if that means before 8, that's not necessarily a bad thing.
-Work all day long
-Eat whatever I can throw together for lunch - my punishment for not shopping this weekend!
-Go to haggens immediately after work, buy haggenese to eat after done shopping
-Finish cleaning the stove (I can no longer claim that I am just letting the grease pans soak - now I am clearly just procrastinating).
-Hopefully by this point it will be 8 pm at latest, giving me time to have fun/plan trips before my 10 o'clock bedtime

There. I have a plan. Beautiful!

My addiction is Sims3. There is nothing new about that, besides the expansion back that I just bought. I considered it an early birthday gift to myself. I spent all of Saturday evening/night playing (until 2 am!), and started playing it right when I woke up today. And just now stopped. I only took a break to clean out the shower drain (ew) and take a shower. On Saturday Sandy came up to visit, and so a group of us got together to go out to lunch and go down to boulevard. It was a very nice day. I also got a lot of good cleaning done Saturday. I say it was a good weekend.

Now wish me luck that I can have a good week! Four tens is scary, but I hope if I can get myself up early enough and motivate myself to clean and do errands as necessary in the evenings, it will become the new normal before I know it!

3 minutes to spare! Woot! Goodnight. :)