I hope it works - Hotwheels tracks are FRUSTRATING!  Fun though - I always  make Scott set them up.

 

We are a mess, aren't we?  Already depressed about Christmas being over ROFL.  Talk about making up reasons to be sad!  It's still back there in my mind, though - sigh...

 

I lay in bed all afternoon not asleep but not fully awake.  Angel is my sleeping buddy.  I let her nap with me once this weekend and she was good so I tried it again.  I usually can't stand cats anywhere near the top of the bed while I sleep but this wknd she climbed under the covers after licking my nose only once and her purring didn't irritate me the way cat purring normally does.  But today she wouldn't lie still.  I wasn't irritated though.  I felt like I would with a toddler.  Frustrated, indulgent, but not too mad that she wouldn't lie down because she was cute and I wasn't being woken up since I hadn't really fallen asleep.  If she'd woken me up from sleep, it would have been different (BTDT when she's escaped at night and jumped on my chest at 4AM!).  But she did keep me from falling asleep and then I was too cold despite all 3 of my carefully orchestrated cover layers (thin fleece, thick fleece, heavy comforter) so I know it was inside me that was cold.  And the inside of my elbows ached which happens sometimes when I sleep and is pretty painful and I'm not sure why they do that but neither bending them nor unbending them helps!  Plus I had to pee LOL.  No wonder I lay there for over 2 hours with no sleep however I got up not feeling as tired so the rest alone helped.  And I did doze, I'm pretty sure.

 

I need to pick up more.  I started once I got up before getting the kids and all the first level rooms are pretty straight.  I need to do the hallway aka dumping ground and the bedrooms.  The laundry room probably needs a once over as well.  Not sure how much cleaning I'm going to get done but the living room looks beautimous and nobody but me can tell my cleaning was half-hearted, especially since our dinner is in the evening (I'm not sure how it will look in gray Christmas morning light when we open our stocking in there though but hopefully my MIL will be too bleary-eyed to notice the dust motes floating around!).  We are supposed to have pouring down rain on Christmas so maybe I'll get lucky and it'll be dark enough for lamplight and not show dust! :-)

 

Need to look at my main list also and see what non-cleaning stuff was supposed to be done today...