I am sitting in a Panera, utilizing their free wi-fi. (It is nice wi-fi, too, and free. Most importantly free.) I am still a little tired from driving here from Cashville on four hours of sleep, at five in the morning. I am never awake at five in the morning and I almost fell asleep at nine-thirty on the interstate outside of Atlanta. Luckily the traffic is always terrible in this city, and I was required to be very awake to navigate the lanes. I will not be making such a drive again. But I left in the still darkness and filled up my car in Murfreesboro for $1.47 a gallon and watched the sun rise as I traveled east. I had my sister's Twilight soundtrack CD to keep me company and the warmth of the December air. (Seriously, it's been in the sixes and seventies. In December. For most of December.)

I had to work at the gym and arrived a scant two minutes late in the parking lot for my shift. Ki, one of the personal trainers, had assembled a mostly vegan brunch for myself and my coworker, which was incredibly sweet and a lovely meal after my ride. I worked, went to Lottie's for an hour and a half, and went to babysit L and C. They were surprisingly good. I ate an entire small Mellow Mushroom pizza with black olives and sundried tomatoes and basil, and they shared a half cheese and half pepperoni. It was very nice to be paid to go out and eat a $12 pizza. (I maintain they should not charge me so much if I do not ask for cheese, but no one has ever asked my opinion on this.) I put the kids to bed and fell asleep for a little part of House. Then their parents got home and I went to Lot's and fell asleep for real, until 9:45, when I got up to go babysit L and C again, from 10:30 to 4:20. It was a low-key day, with much television, three rounds of Pretty Princess, and almost an hour outside enjoying the weather. I was also treated to the vegan waffles in their freeze (or, rather, treated myself). Then I went to the cinema with the intention of seeing Twilight. (Despite my enormous dislike of the message of the series and its insipid writing and shallow character develop and ridiculous plot, I nonetheless slightly enjoyed the movie). However, they weren't playing it at the theater I went to, and thus I decided to enjoy some internet time. Which led to me sitting in Panera, checking up on things and uploading Christmas morning onto my new Flickr account and blogging about all of it.

One of the blogs I read features a lady who has taken it upon herself to take one picture of something every day at the same time. I wonder what kind of carrying case she has for her camera. Not the kind I have, I suspect. But I thought that the once-a-day idea was clever and I will endeavor to make a list of things I should do every day as well.

The first thing on my list will be to get more than four hours of sleep.