Patience is the ability to count down before you blast off

Ten? More like ten MILLION things still left to do before the holiday...

Isn't it completely crazy? No, let me rephrase that...I AM COMPLETELY CRAZY.

When I woke up this morning I was thinking to myself, "I know what I'll do - I'll work straight through until we leave for the airport at 6.30 a.m. tomorrow morning. It doesn't matter if I lose a whole night's sleep because after that, I'm on holiday for a week."

It doesn't matter?

Well, it bloody well SHOULD matter, Caroline. If you don't take care of yourself...

who else will?

So...I shall be calm, sleep tonight and countdown patiently until...

The secret of patience is doing something else in the meantime

By Nina Paley

Patience may be a virtue but it isn't one that I possess in huge quantities.

I want to be better. NOW.

I just want to get on with my life. My life, on workdays, involves spending many hours sitting at my computer. It's too painful to do that.

I am going to have to make the most of this enforced inability to sit down (Do you sense my frustration?) and do other things...

Well, it's a start...