Ten Reasons I Don't Have a Top Ten Tuesday Post

I fully planned to post a great Top Ten on adoption, but it's just not complete.  It's been that kind of a Monday.  The kind that makes you break out in a Bangles song... These are the days when you wish your bed was already made.

By the way, I totally couldn't resist making that a link to the Kids Incorporated cover of the song.  Did anyone else want to be Stacy Ferguson as a little girl?  Before she was Fergie, I mean.

So I stole an idea from myself to make a list explaining why I have no list.  Completely unoriginal, I know.  But since I'm stealing the idea from myself, at one time it was original.

Top Ten Reasons I Don't Have a Top Ten Tuesday Post

10.  Most of my writing time has been devoted to Our Adoption Story.  If you haven't been reading it, you can start here.

9.  For a Monday, there was a crazy amount of traffic on my way home from work.  Traffic is inevitable where I live, but it makes me no less grouchy.  Mondays are usually not bad traffic days.  That is reserved for Fridays.

And days when I want to be home.  Which was apparently today.  

It is so hard to be inspired when you are grouchy.

8.  I have a new employee at work.  Which should be a "Yay!"  But it's so much work to train someone new.  I need the help, but I'm too busy to train the help.  It's a vicious circle.

If I could figure out a way to clone myself, it would be so much simpler than training a new person.

Of course, if I could clone myself, I'd be rich and wouldn't be at my job anyway.

So I guess that would solve a whole lot more problems than just training a new employee.  

7.  I spent quite some time playing with this little girl, who has become very alert and observant over the past week.

 

6.  I spent time getting this silly little girl to sleep tonight.

And then when she fell asleep, I held her an extra twenty minutes longer just because I wanted to hold her.  

I love those times.  The heavy weight of her in my arms, her peaceful breathing, and knowing that this time is oh, so achingly brief!

5.  I got caught up watching The Voice, which is infinitely better than American Idol.  That last battle duet between Tony and Justin was amazing.  I loved them both and never could have picked.  

Does anyone else find themselves loving Cee Lo more and more?  When he cried (not once, but twice!) tonight because he was so moved by the songs, he sealed the deal for me as my favorite judge.  I was on the fence about the whole silk pajamas thing (a little too Hefner for me), but a man in touch with his emotions and not afraid to show it gets me every time.

Although he did make me angry by pairing Justin and Tony against each other.  Darn it, Cee Lo!  Why'd you do it, man?

4.  I wasted precious minutes pondering why the producers of The Voice didn't have the judges change their clothes between battle rounds.  We've seen them in the same clothes for four weeks now, which is just inexcusable.  Vanna White and Pat Sajak can film a week's worth of show's in one day and find time to change in between to keep up public perception of the events being spaced further apart.  So can these guys. 

And why, for the love of all that is fashion, would Adam pick that ridiculous sweater to wear for four weeks straight?  Admittedly, I was so distracted by Christina's odd hat that it took me three weeks to really notice Adam's Mr Rogers inspired ensemble, but still.

3.  I'm really, really tired.  And I broke the cardinal mom rule and stayed awake while my baby was sleeping.  It's hard, though, to be creative about ten things when you're sleepy.

2.  I couldn't put this little love down after getting her to sleep.

I'm a big believer in holding my babies while I can.  

1. And that's all she wrote.  Number 1 is I'm headed to bed, so there's no more time to devote to creative endeavors outside of my dreams.  Although I do have startlingly realistic and terribly interesting dreams which would probably make fascinating blog posts.  

But that's for another day.