A workaholic-neat-freak's snow day

While most are asleep and cozy on a rare Memphis actual snow day, I am wide awake and have been since 3:45am.

While most are content to stay in their pajamas, sit around and enjoy a "nothing" day, I am forcing myself to not start the vacuum, rearrange furniture, wash and scour the kitchen from top to bottom, or even organize the clothes in the closets by the order of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple....and then my abundance of black and gray....

After lying in bed for 2 1/2 hours, fantasizing about cleaning, I get up at 6am and look out the window.

Yep, it is a definite snow day! I begin to psych myself up for a rare relaxing day with my family.

-- I can fix a nice breakfast, play in the snow, watch some movies, read a book....distract myself from doing any work....

But then I flip the light on in the kitchen and my nerves stand at attention...

Overflowing garbage can, dishes- clean and dirty-, food crumbs, dirty counter, some weird powder- last night's hot chocolate no doubt- in the floor, a puddle here and there as a result of melted ice cubes that must have hidden from the drop-EE.

I will be pleasant today...I will be pleasant today....I will be pleasant today... I chant in my head as I try to find something very quiet, for the next few hours, to occupy my time, in this tiny house, so I do not wake up my happy sleeping boys....