What is it about the threes, anyway?
At 3 pm we are all overcome with a tiredness so crazily powerful that we are immediately catatonic. We become mini-Rip-Van-Winkles every afternoon at 3 precisely. And when we awake we are grumpy and angry. The naps are very bad. The naps are unavoidable. The naps are strangling us.
At 3 am we are wide awake. We stare at the ceiling and think sleepy thoughts to no avail. The sheep roam about the house randomly, txting each other and drinking tea. We roll around in the bed ignoring every single tenant of sleep hygiene. We long for sleep. But we do not sleep.
Until 3 pm.
Things still suck.
Re-entry sucks.
We are home. The trip was uneventful and long. The kids all slept for 4 hours on the plane and we woke them up so that they could possibly sleep that night when we arrived home. It was a long day.
Now we are in da house. We are tired and grumpy. We are in major survival mode. We concentrate on eating, drinking, pooping, and sleeping. The children cry and we all wake up too early. There is no food. K. and I both showered and the kids had baths and that was a major accomplishment. That is all.
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Come on over and join us. We leave early tomorrow morning and arrive in Beijing Tuesday at 3 pm local time.
No more posts here until we get home. See you on the other side. Yo.
I have spent the past 3 weeks telling myself that the list of things to buy and to do was quite short. It was quite short. Unfortunately every time I crossed one thing off there was another to take its place. Including today. When I ran around like a maniac for the whole day. Again.
I am beat. I didn't think I would be this beat. I didn't think I would be this busy. I didn't think there were 327 little niggly things that needed to be done.
We are packing tomorrow. We must pack, because there must be an end to the insanity. Packing will effectively put an end to the purchasing, which will put an end to the running around, which will put an end to the freakouts. Or something like that.
I'm glad that I've got all of you to be excited with me about this trip because there are times when I forget to be excited. Although now that it's 3 days away excited doesn't begin to describe it.
Ok, I've got a few more tweaks to the travel blog (which is going to be a bit rough I must admit but that is the way things are going right now--corners are being cut, plans jettisoned, bait cut, all while I added 10 new things that needed to be purchased today. Do I seem like I am going around in circles? HA! It's ovals.) scheduled for tonight and then I will crash. No sleeping issues here, not yet.
Travel blog is coming. Name is coming. Entries about actual topics coming.
Tomorrow is Groundhog Day. I'm giving you that for free. It's topical and relevant. I'm hoping for spring, but guessing winter.