sleeping in

has anyone else noticed how, the later one sleeps, the more tired/cranky/headachey one feels upon finally getting out of bed? i am also learning the curse of taking "sick time" only to end up actually ill. i have learned that i will be "ill" for most of next week as well. i hope i feel better by then, so i can make full use of the time off (sea world, for example, or the zoo would be great places to spend the time - oh how i love so. cal!).
i had a weird combination of boredom and motivation today - this means i now have several lists: shopping, to-do, etc. and nothing actually accomplished besides turning on the bread maker. i feel the need to mention, yet again, how much i LOVE my bread maker. it's starting to smell pretty good now, which means, in about a half-hour, there will be hot, crusty, yummy fresh bread to go with my canned soup. mmmmmmmm.
so, over the next week, i plan to get my apartment cleaned up, organized, decorated (as in finally hanging all the pictures that are piled up in the closet, etc.), and i finally made an appointment to get twilight spayed... with a vet who was recommended to me by a former vet tech, so they'd better be nice to her! poor baby. come tuesday morning, she will not be a happy girl. i will be though - no more yowling all night!
but, back to the motivated/bored connundrum: i have decided that i need to do something "cool" as in, working retail is not going to be all i do forever. i think i have the options down to being a: writer, reporter, rock star, artist of some kind, lottery (or sweepstakes) winner, farm-manager-type thing if michael ever buys that soy farm, animal trainer or caretaker, or bored wealthy housewife - assuming shaggy hits it rich somehow. most of the options don't seem too realistic, but those are the things i came up with that i could see myself happily doing. so unless i get out there and take some music lessons, i should probably work on my writing skills.
i'm thinking i would have to do mostly short pieces or kids' books, since my attention span for writing isn't super-long (as in, i have only about 4 paragraphs of novel done, and i have hit a total writers' block). so, what do kids want to read about? i remember reading an article that said crude jokes and bodily functions make them happy; how about helpful harry and the farting turd-slingers...? they could have some gross icky adventures, and helpful harry could try to convince them to be civil. of course, at the end, he would be swayed by their flatulent, poop-flinging happiness, and have to join in... then there could be sequels: harry poops on his first daisy, harry and the vile booger-eating four-year-olds, harry finds a used... wait, that probably wouldn't be a good idea. anyway, something to think about.