Oof. Did I mention here that I got anonymously reported to our global ethics hotline after I fired someone last winter?

That was fun.

(Though honestly it was a good experience to see the process from the inside and that it was legit.)

Re sleep, most of my sleep issues nowadays are due to the cat climbing on my head in the middle of the night.

Which - it's a serious problem. She does it about twice a night and i rarely get a full night sleep. But she's like a hundred and I'm not comfortable blocking her out of the room because she has so few pleasures left in life.

Today though - my alarm turned off and I overslept and she climbed on my head at 8:01 - and I had an 8AM conference call I'd forgotten. So yay Gracie!

One part of me is saying 'you could go tomorrow morning and run!" and another part is saying "when is the last time you actually got up early enough to do shit like that, after telling yourself you would? OH, NEVER"

HA! I'm so the opposite. I can get p at 5:15 AM to go swimming but if I say, "Oh, I'll go after work" I can guarantee that I will go one out of 10 times.

Today, I did not wake up to swim. Instead, I took the kids to camp and then I went to the gym. I spent 20 minutes on the bike and 5 on the treadmill then I was OVER IT. I went swimming at 1:00 PM after a pedicure and lunch and I barely swam half a mile. Too hot. Too late in the afternoon. I felt too slow. I did HALF a length of butterfly only. Blargh.

Aw, Gracie's looking out for you, brenda! All those middle of the night times were just drills so she'd be ready when you needed her.

The other night I fell asleep with a black cat curled up to the right of my head and a white cat curled up to my left. I felt like I should be illustrating a tarot card or something. Slept pretty good, too.

I haven't been able to work exercise into my routine for months. I don't think I can get up any earlier - I already get up at 5:30 to have time for breakfast and showering and so forth. And after work when I tell myself I'll have time, I'm tired. I'm fairly certain that if I could just force myself to hit the gym I would eventually have more energy to do other things as well as the gym, but that forcing myself part is hard.

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dress thoughts.

LOVE the polka dots. So cute.

Last month I made a bet with a co-worker to run every day; the price was the loser would have to invite a mutually detested co-worker to lunch at a location of the winner's choosing. I missed three days for sickness. I found out after the month was over that he had had perfect attendance from kindergarten through college-- he does not fuck around. Nevertheless, he did not collect on the bet.

This month, another bet, involving 10k steps on the pedometer and water consumption, this time for a cash prize. So far I've run nearly every day and lost weight. But these bets have made me much more willing to run after work, even if they still don't get me out of bed in the morning.

So, my advice? Find a crazy co-worker.

brenda, ugh. That sounds not fun at all.

Although...you were cited as globally unethical!?

ARE YOU REALLY DICK CHENEY?!

Two thoughts, msbelle. Do you think the twee bow on the polka dot could be removed? Also, the pink pleated one is pretty, but the cap sleeves are sometimes a challenge (at least for me!)