Rainy days and fridays.....

always get me sleepy! DUDE. I can NOT stay awake. I feel so lazy this morning. It's dark and cloudy out, and gonna rain all morning. My kids just left for school, the house is empty but me and it's all quiet and all I can hear is that niggling voice telling me to go back to bed...but I have so much work to do and tonight is Relay for Life and I need to be done with work so I can go and I just can't get motivated! UGH. But wouldn't I be more productive if I wasn't so darn sleepy? yeah that's the ticket right? A Nap will energize me! LOL

Seriously...aside from coffee which I can's stand, what do you do when you need to perk yourself up and get movin?

A shower and a can of Diet Coke usually does the trick for me.

These days totally kick my butt too! It doesnt help that I stay up till 4am some nights! I am a coffee girl so I cant help much but I will second the shower! Wish I could be more help honey!

HAAAAAAA well I think I'm awake now! Minutes after making that post, the gym teacher at my kids' school called. She did me a special favor yesterday, I thought the money for the luminaries for Relay for Life were due today, turns out the deadline was actually wednesday but she did us a favor and got me one for my dad, and both fathers-in-law and I just needed to send a check wtih my dd this morning to the school. Well guess who was so sleepy she forgot to do that? LOL SO I had to get dressed, go out in the garage and corral two big dogs into one pen so I could open the garage and get my car out and then of course remember it's raining and then slosh through all the mud and potholes to get to the gym at the school so umm yeah....I'm preetty much awake now, though I would not recommend it to anyone else! LOL

Please pray the rains blows out.....relay is tonight and last year it rained so bad they couldn't light the luminaries and it is really important to me that this year they do

For a perk-me-up I will sometimes set my alarm for about 20 minutes and just sit on the couch with my eyes closed. An offical cat nap. Then when I get up I brew a pot of coffee and I feel SO much better.

When I am so sleepy but want to stay awake I just keep moving - getting up and doing stuff. Of course, the minute I sit down for more than 15 minutes, I just fall asleep (like I did this morning at my work desk, lol). The other thing is to have your hubby call you every 10 minutes about one thing or the next and drive you nuts.
And as for the luminaries, you can usually get them the day of, but the name won't be displayed on the scoreboard, as they won't have time to load them usually. Good luck with the Relay - we've been through one that they sent everyone home at 2 in the morning because of tornado warnings, another one where it was 30 degrees out and we froze our bums (some people went to their cars and slept there). This year was the first relay in the 4 years I've been involved in that we had decent weather but that ended about 4:30 in the morning with drizzle and then 8:45 am (closing ceremony) the heavens just opened up. So best of luck that your weather clears up....