Best Laid Plans..

Do you ever get that annoying, nagging feeling that you're forgetting something? That happened to me today. I was in town with my dad doing his ghost show for a big group of people, and afterwards, on our (rushed) way home, and even now, I can't help but feel like I'm forgetting something. I'm not sure if I think I left something in town, or if something is happening today, or this week, or what.. But I feel like I'm forgetting something kind've important. Chances are too that it has something to do with me being unusually sleepy. Not like just tired of life or exhausted, but honestly sleeping. Like I have jet lag but skipped the long flight to Asia or something. I'm gonna try to get to sleep about an hour to two hours earlier than I usually do (all depends on when my body decides to shut my brain down for the night), so hopefully that will help.

I'm working with my mom all day tomorrow and Saturday. Like I've mentioned a little bit, she works at a gift shop. She's actually the manager of the main gift shop in town. It's the biggest and most successful shop here (there're three), and we've been working there for roughly eight years. I started when I was ten, at the same time that my mom started. Beginning of this year a huge new expansion opened up, moving our gift shop from the basement to the main floor. There're windows, so that's a nice change, but a difficult and challenging change has been the size. The shop is much smaller than it used to be. Most people can't tell, but we definitely can. Especially during times like this- I live in a theatre town (as in we have a live theatre that runs almost year-round), and between each show (there's a spring, a summer, a fall, and a winter/Christmas show) we close for two weeks. For rehearsals and setting up the set and such, but the gift shop also closes so we can change it around. For fall we had orange leaf garlands and maple leaf stuff and such, and the switch between fall and Christmas is the biggest. There are a bunch of trees that come in, as well as garland, and all the spring stuff goes out. So as I mentioned, we can definitely tell that we have a smaller space because of the way we actually have to strategize to fit everything in it. There is a lot of planning involved to make everything fit and work out. And it's really taking a toll on my mom. She's just unusually over-stressed and exhausted, and I blame a lot of that being on such small of a space we have. That, and money issues that the organization is having. But it's just a lot, so I think that my help tomorrow and Saturday will, or should.. well, hopefully, make her relax a little bit. I'll take some pictures tomorrow and post them to give you an idea of the space I'm talking about.

It is 10:00 now. If I want a good night's sleep, I should get going. Sleep well!