Top Ten Reasons...

Top 10 Things to do when one’s brain won’t shut down to sleep

10) Count Sheep
9) Clean out your nose buger by buger.
8) Contemplate what your mate is thinking with each snore.
7) Hash out your schedule for the next day.
6) Rehearse your infomercials for your next Show.
5) Mentally write your goals for the next 3 months.
4) Write an email to KDB in my head and tell her she’s a pain (and that's putting it nicely!) for starting in on the whole blogging issue.
3) Get up and read a boring book.
2) Listen to calming music on the Family Life Network while you scrub your kitchen floor - a completely non-calming job.
1) Get up and go write your daily blog, hope the Ambien kicks in, and head back to bed.

Although I have tried many of them, a few are actually new thoughts to me. My head is so full tonight. There are almost certain changes in the air, and my planner brain won’t quit. My husband is probably up snoring away, while I wish for sleep.

Top 10 things to plan
10) Where to hide my stash of piles that clog the kitchen counter
9) When I am going to find time to watch a Little House on the prairie marathon
8) When I’m going to find time to truly clean my desk (and what it would actually look like clean for 2 weeks!)
7) How to get lesson plans figured out to teach our youngest daughter preschool.
6) What to do on our scheduled September vacation – just the 2 of us.
5) How to convince each one of my friends from distant locations that I need help growing my business and that they should either A) Join my team, or B) do a party for me so I can meet their friends and grow my business that way.
4) How to find all the names I’ll need to build my business plan to promote to director yesterday.
3) How to make my parties even more fun and educational.
2) What it would be like to take a vacation and just completely veg out on the white sandy beaches of the Atlantis in the Bahamas.
1) Why the heck did I start doing this in the first place when this makes me have to think that much harder when I want to settle down and go to sleep?

Since I’m on a role, I might as well try the top 10 reasons to clean my garage
10) Spiders are yucky and best cleared out
9) The chance to find room for my van in the garage again.
8) The thrill of being able to put the strollers, wagon, toys, and bikes back where they belong.
7) Get that old toilet out of the garage and into the dump.
6) So I can pick up all the BB’s that my husband has shot and put them back in his box (ok, I’m not quite that bad!)
5) Everything has a home. If I preach it, I must live it too.
4) If a clean desk is the sign of a sick mind, what is an organized garage a sign of?
3) If a burgler sneaks in, he’ll know right where to find what he wants (like he’s going to break into the garage!)
2) So I can check it off my to do list as something less to do.
1) For the sense of accomplishment