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You see, the problem is exhaustion. I need it. If I wanted to sleep tonight, I should have not taken a nap today. Sure, I only got a good five last night, about the same the night before, and the night before that? Two hours awake on a rock with a very bright gibbous moon, and 4 hours half asleep in a tent. Still, in order to be able to sleep at hours I ought to, that state of exhaustion is very important. Today, I ruined it. Can you imagine? Months of hard work down the drain. Hello 4 AM, how's the wife and kids?

    And what's worse? My brain is so full with all you kids give it to sort through, that it STILL wants to be up. What good does it do? All the thinking doesn't change anything, so why not ride the pillow to the end of the rainbow to oblivion? Because I can't stand it. Sleep is death still breathing.

    No, don't you worry. I'll make myself get to it, like eating vegetables or going running.   

Alright, you've been good...

wop diddily shwop

There are a number of things that it's silly to be good at...that I'm good at, frosting cookies, doctoring animals, taking people to the emergency room, balancing in precarious positions, hide and go seek, understanding people who try to talk to me while they brush their teeth, sleeping in unusual places...you get the point. Then there are things that would be useful to be good at that I'm not like math tests, dating, speaking english, or any other languages for that matter, or playing the piano. I still try though. And then there are silly things I'm not amazing at, but still really reallly REALLLLY enjoy. Today this list included: 

(1.) The satisfaction of putting a baby back to sleep by finding it's binki and reinserting it, (it's like magic!) I don't even mind waking up for it...but then again ... well you know me.
(2.) Baking surprise birthday cakes (especially when you know how to make a funfetti cake come out pink...and it's for your brother)
(3.) Doing other peoples dishes.

Point three leads to a new point. And you may question why I claim not to be amazing at this yet The binki thing I'm just still learning, the cake, well it's a bit crispy, but dishes? Well maybe you already knew this, you may have grown up watching the Brady Bunch. I did not. So as a warning... DO NOT use liquid dish-soap in the dishwasher. 

It will not go well. 

But if you ever need some really good midnight pancakes, you know where to go.