You know what I’m really in the mood for? A beer. I still have the chips and I could really enjoy a nice, cold glass of beer right now. I don’t think that would be a good idea though. Even a lone beer could make me sleepy and that would be a bad thing. Instead I’m drinking water in a Heineken glass. That will do!

Movie’s almost over. Then I think I’ll take a break for a bit so I can post somewhat more involved posts (haha).

Hey, I also realized, my monitor – Jim – was really sick and had to back out today and take on the alternate schedule. Who’s my monitor now? I’d love for you to say hi!

I know what would probably be really helpful later on – having a yard. I can’t go for a walk of course, not with the kids here, but if I had a yard I could at least take the monitor with me and go out there. I suppose I could go on the balcony but all I can really do out there is sit down. I’d look pretty silly walking back and forth on the balcony like a pacing lion. 🙂

I might do it anyway. And I’m not really in the mood to have a shower, but I might at least splash some cold water on my face. I think the caffeine has magically removed itself from my body but I don’t want another actual coffee right now. Not yet, I need to save it for much later.

Still, only 8.5 hours to go! I figure that refugees go without sleep for much more than 24 hours and they don’t have the luxury of sitting in front of a computer while they’re up. If I can stay awake and keep posting every half hour until 9 tomorrow morning, I will have raised a great deal of money for refugees, so I’m going to suck it up!

I completely forgot. Food and Hostel? They really don’t mix well. Perhaps I will save these chips for AFTER the movie is over. Sheesh.

Time is still passing pretty quickly. We’ll see if it’s still slipping by at 4 am.

Wow, that coffee I had earlier really helped! I can’t believe how much better I feel than I did before I drank it. I know it’s still going to get rough in the wee hours of the night, but at least I don’t feel like I’m falling asleep anymore.

Watching a movie while sitting on the floor helps too. I couldn’t decide which Harry Potter movie to watch so instead I’m watching Hostel. I’ve seen it before, it’s extremely screwed up but it’s really good too. At least, it’s good if you don’t mind a lot of gore. Eli Roth is the bomb.

The one drawback to watching a movie is that, although I am awake, I nearly missed my posting time. Oops! I’d better keep one eye on the clock while I’m watching the movie!

Serina asked me for the view from my favorite chair. Well, I don’t necessarily have a favorite chair – some day I’d love a nice recliner or a big overstuffed and stupidly cozy chair. Maybe even a papa san. Those are great too.

However, if we go by favorite = the chair in which my ass most frequently resides then that would be my chair at my desk where my desktop computer is. It’s in the corner of the living room so this is my view when I turn right:

That’s the phone on the floor, which I use as a baby monitor, and beside it is the remote for the DVD player. Those are all movies on the bookshelf in the left hand corner, the hutch belonged to my grandmother, and the other shelf used to be all books but the bottom two shelves are now toy storage.

And this is what’s straight in front of me:

You’ll note the Harry Potter collection of course. You have no idea how much it bugs me that book six is so much bigger than book seven.

Back to my movie!

I haz coffee. And thank god for that. I feel like I’m hitting a wall and it’s way too early for that so I’m halfway through a cup of caffeine and I ate a Mars bar. I don’t want to eat too much chocolate at once lest I end up finishing Blogathon with a massive stomach ache.

What with all the frantic craze of trying to convince Breanna – who usually loves sleeping – that it was indeed time to close her eyes and go to bed, I didn’t really notice that I had gone past the halway point. But I did! While I was trying to get Breanna to sleep the mid-point hit Blogathon. I’m now on the other side, and there are fewer hours left than hours put in. This is good, it’s encouraging!

I think I’m going to finish my coffee while I start watching a movie. If I sit on the floor I’ll be less likely to fall asleep than if I sit on the couch.

Whew. She finally gave in and fell asleep. I was ready to cry. Indeed, it was probably a combination of the fact that she slept until 3:!5 (past 3 pm naps screw up bedtime) and the fact that I was stressed out about getting her to sleep.

Luckily, I ran out with her, posted that last entry and ran back and she went to sleep about 10 minutes later. And it wasn’t all bad, ABC was airing The Princess Diaries 2 and as sad as it may be, I love those two movies.

And now it is quiet. It is time for coffee and chocolate. Lots of chocolate.

This is SO not the day for Breanna to be pulling this crap at bedtime.

PLEASE make her go to SLEEP.

Alas, bedtime is not going well.

Dear Breanna,
Please go to frickin’ sleep. Mommy needs to blog every half hour and this is not working out for me at all. SLEEP!
Love,
Mommy

Time to take one of the questions that was left for me to answer in a previous post. Heather asked “what would you do with a day to yourself and a guilt-free $500?”

Assuming I could only use the money on myself and not for my family as a whole, I would put it and some of my own money into buying myself an entry-level digital SLR camera. I love taking pictures and I love the camera that I have now (hi, Sueellen!) but I would love to be able to play even more with photography. I have no interest in going professional but I would love to make it an even more intensive hobby.

Then I would spend that day to myself reading the manual and trying my new camera out!

Okay, bed time for the kids (oops, and must brush their teeth) so let’s hope it goes smoothly so I don’t have to run out and post in the middle of wrestling them to sleep.