I made good on my promise yesterday and went to bed at 8:30 last night, knitted for a half hour and was asleep by about 10 after 9. I was so tired, just dragging all day yesterday. I've figured out that the coffee I drink in the morning backfires on me later - by mid-morning I start slumping, by mid-afternoon I have a headache. I'm cutting back on my caffeine consumption. Thanks to the coffee pod system I can easily use one decaf and one regular pod and get half as much caffeine per cup. I know better than to go cold turkey on caffeine - the headaches are killer - but I do want to cut it back so I'm not loading up on so much first thing each morning. I think it contributes to my enormous energy slump in the afternoon.

Knitting: Working on another striped pouch from Weekend Knits, that's the exhausted, can't concentrate, pre-bedtime project of the week. I love the colors - the blue and green of the Shrek bag, plus yellow and turquoise. That's all - stripes of varying widths, I didn't plan it in advance but a pattern of sorts is presenting itself.

The weekend of cool weather has evaporated into our usual heat - even worse than usual heat. I hope the rumors of a cold winter are true, we need it if only to kill off the insane mosquito population.

Murphy goes to the groomer today. He looks disgusting, she will probably charge me extra for his neglected condition. Last night the Bad Bossy Dog figured out (with quite a bit of flapping and thumping) how to get back into the house via the cat flap, so the poor cats have no secret hideout now, the little brat can go out into the garage and come back in as he pleases. Poor cats.

If you're really attentive you may have noticed that I took the blog links section off the sidebar a few days ago. There were so many broken links, dead blogs, so many people have moved their blogs, etc., that it was just easier to kill the entire section than figure out which ones are still good and rearrange things. I'll start putting them back one of these days, maybe I'll even get fancy-shmancy and use buttons. I'm such a lazy bloggger, I enjoy blogging and blathering at the world, but I just can't find the time or enthusiasm to give the blog the facelift it so desperately needs. One of these days...yeah right.

Off to the shower, drop the dog at the groomer, go to work, pick up dog on lunch hour, back to work, work work work, stop at supermarket, exercise, collapse with knitting, go to sleep comically early. That's the schedule for Tuesday.