December 2, 2016
4:35 p.m.

Wow, it's hard to believe it's already December. I hate to say it, but I'm going to be glad to see the end of 2016. This year has been a rough one.

But--OH MY GOD!!--I am not ready for Christmas, and it's in 22 days (I'm not counting today, it's pretty much a gone thing.

I have no idea how I'm going to do Christmas this year. Ugh!

Okay, not gonna cry about the Christmas thing.

I'm gonna cry because my trip to Wyoming has been delayed until mid-month. I'm sad, but my mom was sadder. She was almost in tears when she called to tell me, which nearly made me cry, too. But I am going!! I am!! And I can hardly wait.
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I must be the weirdest person alive. I am basically a night person--I will go to bed at four a.m. and be perfectly happy to be up all night.

It's dark at night--right?

Are you following me?

But here's the thing--I hate the fact that it is now dark outside, at five p.m. I hate that the days are so short and that the sun will disappear before six for the next couple of months.

Why should that even bother me? I'm up at night! In the dark! Every day, all year!

But the fact is, it really does bother me. And of course, I don't go to sleep at daylight and get up when the sun goes down. I try to sleep about six hours--I TRY--but I'm up during the daytime for several hours. (I consider daytime sunrise until eight p.m.) As far as I'm concerned, I should be getting twelve hours of daylight EVERY SINGLE DAY.

Yeah, yeah, I know it doesn't work that way. Not here, in Colorado. Not in Wyoming. I would have to live near the equator. No fluctuation to day and night hours. No seasons. I could deal with the day/night thing. But I like seasons.

So clearly, I'm weird and unreasonable. And even if I could win an argument about daylight savings time--which saves no daylight at all--it would still be dark earlier at this time of the year, and there would still be fewer hours of daylight overall.

I lose. Bummer.
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11:24 p.m.

Well, I got a little sidetracked, but I'm back!

All these delays in my trip to Wyoming have reminded me why I always wait until the last minute to pack.

Not really, I'm just the Procrastination Queen.

But, honestly--if I had packed, I just would have had to break into my suitcase like ten times already. So my procrastinating ways have paid off in spades this time. Yay, me!
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December 3, 2016
12:12 a.m.

Oh, my gosh, I have to get an un-distracted button!

Your win--a two-in-one! It's officially a new day, and I'm wondering what the heck the little dog ate, because--phew! What stinky farts she's producing! Had to send her across the room to sleep. How can anything that cute be so smelly?

I thought I'd be quietly snoozing myself by now. I took some Nyquil, which usually makes me sleepy, but it doesn't seem to be doing its job right now. On anything. Still sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching and not sleeping. Bad advertising, man!
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Is it just the musician in me, or does it bother everyone to see actors pretending to play an instrument they clearly have no idea how to play, and doing it so badly that even those of us who are not musicians should clearly be able to tell that they never took a music lesson in their lives? Am I being mean?

Uh...I think I need to try to go to bed now.

Good night.