After bolting awake at 2AM this morning, I am sinking fast. I can barely keep my eyes open (not a good condition for driving home, methinks.) I did manage to can three half-pints of ketchup (catsup? ketchup? Is this a regional thing?), pack my lunch, precook dinner, vacuum, do some computer work, clean off the dining room table, do my chores, put netting over the Pearls' space (still need some - it's got to be break-out-proof), take a shower, deliver eggs to my egg customers, and drive to work. Now I feel as if I've been run over by a Peterbilt.
Time to break out the dark chocolate. As if I needed an excuse....
16 comments:
Chocolate helps EVERYTHING. Good luck making it through the rest of the day......
Yes, Sue. Chocolate is a necessity. I am sure it's written down somewhere. I am off for a cup of black tea - hope I don't shoot myself in the foot, so to speak!
Are you trying to cram a lifetime into one day. Ketchup making before going to work???? I would need a lot more than chocolate.
TL - I have been cooking that ketchup for five days! That's the problem with having to squeeze these things in. I was determined to get it off my stove (and to clean that sticky pan!)
On a completely different subject (I'm a day late), how's the sheep (shep, ship, shop) doing?
Susan does more before 6 AM than most people do ALL DAY! The few, the proud, the homesteaders!!
2 am? You mean that is a real time? I though that is was just a myth that anything exsisted between midnight and 4 am ;)
The sheep is ship shop so far. I am keeping a close eye on her, though. She didn't come out this morning with the rest of them, so I was ready to pole vault over the fence to come to her aid, when she sashayed out. Sheepies. And thank you for asking...xx
It's only because I can't help myself. And it's true - we are ALL overachievers!
What?! You exist on four hours of sleep a night and still do all you do? How is that possible? My inquiring mind needs to know!
Ya know what? If you ever "retired" from your day job, I think you would probably destroy yourself doing more things in one Monday thru Friday period on your homestead than most of us do in a month. You'd be like one of those whirling dervishes who spin into a melted puddle.
P.S. I must be made wrong. Chocolate does not do it for me. I just keep stumbling around in a semi-comatose state until I hit a wall hard enough that I pass into unconsciousness for enough hours to revitalize me.
I do think we homesteady-types are a little over the top when it comes to achieving things. You'd have to be a little over the top to choose the challenges we have put in front of ourselves. As far as chocolate goes, it tends to give me a real little zip, then I meet that same wall you run into....
Oh no no, I get a good 7-8 hours a night. Could not function otherwise. It is just that in my days I have stayed up to midnight (have to see that new years ball drop ;) and I have gotten up early at 4am. But not at the same time! So I just have only heard stories of those strange hours that fall in between. The time when, as my Father would say, "nothing good happens".
...you got up and STAYED up???? That's what peanut butter toast and milk are for, to put you back to sleep so you can overachieve in the daylight!
Eat choclate then get some sleep ;)
MMmmmmmm Chocolate! I never need an excuse to eat it either.
Ketchup?! I've wanted to make some, but I'm a katchup snob and love Heinz organic...I know I know...
do you share your recipe?
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