I have plenty to do. I have papers to grade and packets of papers to organize. I have things to be ordered and things to be cleaned up in my office. But after my lunch break, I don’t want to do a single thing. I don’t want to do… anything at all except go home and take a nap. Sleeping has become increasingly, well, impossible. I took a relatively undisturbed nap on the couch from about 9:30 until 10:45. I then crawled to bed where I assumed the first uncomfortable position: left side, arm curled up between the two pillows for my head, and j-shaped pregnancy pillow wedged behind my back and then between my knees. Two hours later, I was awake and in the bathroom. Rolling over is a task in and of itself these days. My sides and abs hurt as I try to pull myself to sitting, crawl over the pillow and then trudge into the bathroom.

Repeat every hour and a half for maximum sleep deprivation.

I wake feeling ok but start getting sleepy – more like, exhausted – by noon. I know this is normal third trimester stuff but come on; I’d really like to be motivated again, to feel like this is a great time in my life but this is really detracting from happy happy joy joy feelings here.

So yeah, back to my lunch break, which was anything but what I had planned. I was going to Target to exchange something I got for my baby shower. I didn’t want something different, just something of a different color. So I grabbed the one gift receipt not signed, assuming it was for that product, and headed in. No, the lady informed me, this item is not on this receipt. Huh?  So I asked if I could just get a different color, it’s not like it changes the price any. Well, you see, Target changed their rules about exchanging without a receipt and you can do it twice in a 12 month period. No, that’s a lie they tell you. You can exchange two items in a twelve month period. So when I took back some onesies and the incorrect ink cartridge on the same day, that used up my two allowances. So no new baby headresty thing for me. Regardless, they didn’t have one in a color I wanted anyhow. So the black and  light blue one will have to do. Besides, he’ll only use it in the stroller until he can actually control his little bobble head.

But that really flung me into a foul mood and now I really really don’t want to do what I need to. But if I don’t get this copy order in soon, I’ll be doing a lot of stuff last minute. Ah screw it; I’m gonna read blogs and try to pull myself out of this funk.