well, you can't win 'em all. . .

Hazelnut cream coffee. . .I cannot believe how amazing this stuff is.  Has there ever been a beverage with more love to give than hazelnut cream coffee?  When you are feeling tired, and work has you bummed out because you just spent 6 hours on a project someone will tell you was done wrong, this wonderful cup of coffee comes to your aid, and fills you with energy and joy.  Truly, even my beloved Diet Dr. Pepper cannot lift my spirits in the way that this cup of pure heaven has.  Thank you Intel for being, perhaps not the greatest "great place to work", but certainly the greatest place to get a cup of coffee.

And with that introduction, I will now expand on how difficult it is to adjust your sleep for a full night shift of 6p-6a.  I was planning to go for a run yesterday, my long, 18 mile run.  Alas, I made the choice to try to sleep instead.  Well, sleep was not easy, and in the end, I wished I'd just gone for the run instead.  Now, it looms over me to complete it today after work.  I will come home after 4 12 hour 6p-6a shifts, and I will run 18 miles (that's almost 3 hours).  No!!  I refuse!  Next week, when I do my 20 mile, I will go right after work, but not today!  "The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!"  "This is madness!!"  I am only training for a marathon.  I do not need to kill myself before I even begin seriously training for IM.  I will run after sleeping for a while.  I will run in the evening, when Steve will be going to bed.  I will go home this morning, sleep, wake up as close to noon as possible (got to go to church), have some food, hang out with Steve, get some grocery shopping done, flake out on the couch with a movie or play some Prince of Persia, have an awesome dinner, go for a run, go to bed.  Yup, I am loving this plan. 

Next week is Christmas, and on Monday, I need to finish up my shopping.  It is going to be a horrible Christmas. . .Get off work, drink a red bull, drive out to the west side, eat some Christmas breakfast, imbibe a red bull, open gifts, admire gifts, chug a red bull, come back to the east side, make a pie, take a nap, down a red bull, eat Christmas dinner, laugh it up with family, open gifts, open another red bull, play with new things, IV-bag of red bull, play games with family, bathe in red bull, eat some pie, take an ambien, go to sleep.  Nothing to it, day shift pansies!