Tired, so very tired

[angela_o]

Let me go on the record as stating that I love the holidays. The lights, the decorations, the beautifully wrapped packages, Bing's voice. I love it all. But, and this is a big but, I am much less enthusiastic about disassembling all the decorations into their constituent parts and packing them up in preparation for next year. Guess what I was doing today? Yep, you got it in one. It took me between 3 and 4 hours to get it all done and there's still bazillions of fir needles in the house that I haven't been able to clean up yet. Beauty definitely doesn't come without a price. Plus, you always seem to acquire more holiday-related accoutrement and that makes getting everything back into the allotted storage area that much more fun. But, I did it. *wipes brow*

Otherwise, poor M. woke me up at 6am on New Year's Day being sick which pretty much continued throughout the day. He was better on Monday, so he went to school yesterday, but I had to pick him up early and he was home today. He should be able to go back tomorrow which will mean that I'll finally be alone in the house again for the first time since the middle of December assuming that no one else succumbs. Keep your fingers crossed for me.

Now, I think I just might go curl up with one of the Kelley Armstrong books that muffinkath7 recommended to me and veg out for a while before bedtime. I think I've finally hit the stage of my life where I actually need more than six hours of sleep a night. Lo how the mighty have fallen. *sigh*