So on the eve of my birthday, i just found out some great news! I got accepted to a 5-week long missions trip to China this summer. wow. it still hasn't hit me that this is real...will i really be all the way around the world in 3 months?

All i can think about right now is the next hour and not going anywhere near my bed. Gosh, i thought mailing off the National Boards box would let me joyfully play, play, play... but this past week, all i've done is sleep, sleep, sleep. In the final days before sending everything off, I fell behind in my school stuff and I've been playing catch-up (ketchup - heehee). I think my body also needed to de-stress or something because i cannot seem to stay awake in the afternoon after i get home. I pass out and then can't fall asleep at night and then the cycle repeats. So i must stay awake! keep alert! zzzzzzzzzz

This is random but daylight savings really got me this year. I reset most of my clocks but the main alarm I use is from an old cell phone. Naturally, i assumed that the digital satillite thing would do it's job and reset the clock but it didn't. So on monday morning, I got up an hour later than I should have and didn't even really notice until I drove into the school parking lot and realized it was FULL! eeeek! Luckily, I usually get to school fairly early so I was only about 15 minutes late to 1st period but my kids all laughed at me. =) That night, I consciously set my cell phone alarm to an hour earlier because it still hadn't reset. It went off once in the morning at the right time and then between snoozes, the clock was digitally reset so it stopped ringing because the time had already passed. I was almost late again. of course, if i didn't try to time everything so that i can be up and out of my house in 15 minutes, it would solve a lot of these problems because i could have a bit more lee-way, but oh well. at the moment, i'm not quite ready to give up precious sleep yet.

but i guess it is time to start acting more grown-up. 26 puts me definitely passed "the early twenties." i think i put up a surprising amount of resistence to getting older, but i guess each year is special in its own way and i just don't want to let go. in some ways, this year, being harder for me than most, is easier to say goodbye to but i still don't feel ready to be an "adult." oh poo-poo...being young at heart is what's most important anyways and that i'm sure i'll always be. =)