Things I do at work other than work...

This weekend I remembered why family visits don't have the same joy as they did a year ago. I simply can't handle being on their day-shift schedule and it exhausts me to no end. This weekend, for example, I napped before I went home and got a couple hours inbetween midnight and 8 AM. But when I woke up at 8, I couldn't go back to sleep. Didn't have a choice. Around 5ish I started regretting that decision as I started getting loopy from sleepy-hazedness.

Then I took a short nap on the drive home from the wedding my family and I went to, and drove up to 6th street to get very, very drunk.

I went to the wedding of some friends of the family (my dad was the groom's dad's close friend since high school) who I realized (at the reception) that I hadn't seen in at least a decade. The groom's older sister's last vivid memory of me apparently involved me on a swingset in their backyard, asking if she would swing with me. Similarly, my last vivid memories of them involved all of us sitting around a computer with AOL Internet, watching the series of neverending progress bars, along with being excited to play their new Sega Genesis (the one with Sonic the Hedgehog). Wow.

Also, while I was home I raked in some major gardening goodies. My mom gave me these foam trays filled with single-servings of soil that I can use to start vegetables and whatnot in the spring. Plus an empty plastic tray that holds 16ish squares of soil+plants. And tons of seeds for vegetables (tomatoes, beans, squash, etc.), herbs (basil, thyme, parsley, sage, etc.), and flowers (columbines, Texas wildflowers, etc.). Some of them are a year or two old, so we don't know what the success rate will be.

I have the best intentions to start a garden this spring, and I will seriously dislike myself if I can't get that accomplished. There are so many things I'd like to do with and to my house, but the sad fact is that at this point I can't really get anything done because I'm either sleeping, traveling, or doing something with Brian. Hopefully I can get some things done or learn to be content with the incremental progress that is getting made. But neither is very likely.