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Motivation and I had a fight

So…I think motivation and I had I fight.  Motivation is giving me the silent treatment.  Inspiration might also be giving me the silent treatment, I’m not sure.  I think maybe inspiration just took the weekend off.  I hope it’s only the weekend and not like…a month or something.  What is this, Europe?

Anyway, how about this post from a long time ago from another blog?  Huh?  It’s actually kind of a problem right now, so I thought it was fitting to post it again.  Oh, and also sleeping through my alarm/turning my alarm off in my sleep.

I was minding my own business mid morning yesterday. I was a little late that morning and I was reflecting on that and decided that the only recourse is to just get up when my alarm rings the first time. Then I would have plenty of time to do whatever I needed to do in the morning and still get to work on time, just like that quarter in high school when I would roll out of bed and stay out of bed right when my alarm rang. That’s when it hit me. The snooze button is not my friend. It never has been my friend. It probably will never be my friend. All these years when I would hit the snooze button for another 5-10 minutes of sleep has not done be any good. It’s only created mad rushes in the morning as I tried to do everything that needed doing before leaving for my destination. The snooze button has only caused anxiety and tardiness in my life. I feel so betrayed.
That being said, I hit the snooze button twice this morning and I was late for work again.

And also, this comic by Nedroid:

There’s a squirrel sleeping in our plotter

Some of you may know Toby.  He is a squirrel.  I think he has a small infatuation with my friend.  He follows her everywhere.  I got to witness some of this first hand when we were gallivanting around Dallas.  But, I also found out that he’s very shy and always hides in places so as not be seen.  He can be heard though, because he’s always squeaking.  And I’ve also discovered that Toby has a very large family and/or social network.  They’re everywhere.  They’re all quite shy.  They’re all quite curious and what to follow you and know what you are doing.  They all like to squeak and chatter and chitter and squitter.
I found out recently that one of Toby’s friends lives in our plotter.  I think it’s the fat gray squirrel who sometimes sits on the branch in the Enchanted Forest giving advice to adventurers.  You know, the bossy one.  The one with twenty-three children who are all exceedingly polite, unlike the lost princes who seek her advice.  Anyway, I think she’s moved from the Enchanted Forest and into our plotter.  I think she’s retired now from giving advice to wayward adventurers and her children are probably all grown up.  She’s retired into our plotter.  And she snores.  She seems like she’d be the type to snore.  Don’t believe me?  I’ve got a recording of it.

Um…sorry about the quality and the length.  In converting it to a video, my audio was automatically chopped and I didn’t feel like redoing it so that you got to hear all of it.  Anyway, I was trying to furtively record the squirrel snoring while not waking her up and not attracting too much attention.  I failed at the last one.  One of the guys saw me by the plotter and he wanted to know what I had done to fix it.  Um…nothing.  I was just trying to get a recording of the squirrel, who retired into our plotter, snoring away.  You know.  As one does.  But you don’t have to hear our little exchange now because it got cut off.  Huzzah!

By the way, the image from the video was taken by Heather Champ and is used under Creative Commons.  You can find more of her stuff and specifically that squirrel here.