Can't Sleep

After being in bed for over an hour now, my brain has not ceased thinking about everything I need to do, should do, wish I could do - none of which I can do right now or should think about doing because what I really need to do is SLEEP! I almost decided to blog around 10:30 but decided against it since nearly every single time I blog late at night I fight fatigue the following day. Tomorrow is Saturday and I don't go into work, but since my family are going shopping tomorrow morning I want to ensure that I get my full eight hours. I am one of those unfortunate souls who must have eight to nine hours of sleep for full brain capacity. Yet even then my brain fails me.

For example... Back in October I lost my passport somewhere in Indiana while visiting the Global Partners headquarters. It never turned up, and I'm pretty sure now that I must have left it in a restaurant. I decided to wait a couple months, see if someone found it and decided to be nice by mailing it to me. No luck. Realizing time is passing quickly and not wanting to find myself passport-less by summertime, I made an appointment at the post office this morning to apply for a new one. I took my license and birth certificate, filled out the paperwork, got my photo taken, and chatted a bit with the clerk, whose family I used to go to church with. I went straight from there to a meeting, and then from there to meet my mom and sister for a post-Christmas shopping trip. We arrived home with a bunch of bags, and as I went through all my stuff to put it away I could not find my birth certificate. It was nowhere to be found. I had lost my passport, just to have to go through the long process of getting a new one.

And then I lost my birth certificate. "I would lose my head if it wasn't attached. Seriously." (One of Mom's many quotes.)

The only place the passport could be was at the post office because I never took it back from the clerk. Thankfully, we had the clerk's phone number in our phone book, so I could call and ask him if I had left it. I discovered that it was never handed back to me because the birth certificate must be sent along with the application to the State Department. I had been standing right in front of him as he put the documents together, didn't catch that he kept the certificate, then I had spent all day without realizing it was gone.

The reason I can't sleep is because I am thinking out about the million-and-one other things I don't want to forget about!

My schedule is beginning to fill up with appointments and Sunday speaking engagements, and it is great! The work of support-raising is now well underway, and I see the potential for it to become a full-time job. My current planner ends December 31 (two days from now), so planning meetings means writing the dates and info in the planner margins, on random receipts, Post-Its, or whatever scrap paper is at hand. Not ideal for someone who can't keep track of documents as important as passports and birth certificates. My shopping trip tomorrow absolutely must involve a stop at Target for a new planner and purse-size notebook. So now the list of things going on in my head is down two items.

Why can't there be an off switch on my head?