It's 4:30 am. . .

(Please note - this blog post was composed very early in the morning. Please forgive the many grammatical errors and misspellings. I was going to remove them, but I left them in because I think they're kind of charming.)

. . .and I'm up blogging. And it's not because I love getting up early to greet the day, blah, blah, blah, you may be rather confused. Every once in awhile I go through periods of serious insomnia. I've been tossing and turning all night (doubt I slept more than an hour or two) so I finally just gave up. I'm really going to be hating life this afternoon.

So while I'm up pondering in the meaning of life, etc., etc., here are a few of my recent goings-on:

• I've been sick for about two solid weeks. I think my sinuses have turned on me. I know several people that have suffered through the same nastiness and it just seems to hang on for so long! Now that I'm in the stage where my cough sounds more like a dog bark, I'm hoping I'm back end of this yuck.
• I went to Las Vegas over President's Day weekend. We were supposed to go to Zion's National Park on Saturday, but when I got off the plane Friday my mom took one look at me and decided we should postpone the trip until later. Despite being rather ill, it was quite pleasant. I slept in (ah, to be able to sleep right now. . . ), hung out in my pajamas, watched movies, and watched my parents run around in their normal, high-strung, overly productive state. It was quite relaxing and entertaining.
• Relief Society still has me on the go during most of my free time. Our ward has pretty high turnover, and right noew we have over 170 sisters in the Relief Society. It is pretty overwhelming at times, but I have great counselors and I'm taking it one day at a time. Needless to say, Visiting Teaching is a monster!
• I'm doing some volunteer work for the United Way here in Phoenix. I'm a Community Investment Volunteer, which means I review funding proposals and update reports from some of the agencies United Way funds. I've enjoyed it immensely, although right now it is consuming a great deal of time. I'm in the thick of reviewing reports and I'm in the midst of writing an audit report at work. Between work, Relief Socity duties, volunteer work, and being quite ill, the past few weeks have been kind of rough on me. Of course, all things eventually pass, so I'm trying not to get too stressed (ha, ha).

So that is about all right now. Since there is no sleep in sight, I may try to read my scriptures (I tried reading the Old Testament about 2 hours ago, but that didn't work. . .), do some yoga, take a shower, and clean my room in the hours between now and heading off to work.

Here's to sleepless nights and productive wee hours of the morning!