I am sooo very tired. I have finally found a good paying job at a plant with a good working environment. I start on Tuesday. The problem is that the job is night shift. I have to change my schedule around working from 11pm to 7:30am. I started a couple nights ago just trying to stay up later and sleep in and get closer to what my sleeping schedule will be. So the first night I stayed up til about 2am, and slept to 8:30am, not too bad of a start. We went and looked at some houses that day, we are looking for a home to buy. There were a couple that we found interesting, and wanted to go back to check out more details and figure out which one we really wanted, so we decided we would go back the next day. Well, that night I just about went to bed about midnight, but Billy reminded me that I need to start staying up at night and sleeping in the morning. So, forgetting that we already had plans for the next morning, I stayed up til about 3 in the morning. 7am Billy is waking me up in a rush because he is running behind. We need to get the kids to the sitter and go look at these houses...If he knew I had to get up early, what was the point in me staying up late??? Now last night, after staying up late the night before, and getting up early that morning, it was very difficult to stay up late again. I made myself a pot of coffee, and took a refreshing shower to keep me going. Again, I made it til about 3am and crashed. What happens at 6:30 this morning? Billy woke me up because he wanted me to go to McDonalds with him and our 6 year old; He has made it a routine to take the boy to McDonalds every Friday. As calmly as I possibly could, I let him know that if I am going to get my schedule turned around, I will need to get some sleep so that I can stay up all night. He is a very sweet guy, and very intelligent, but sometimes, the simplest things seem to allude him. So after I managed to get back to sleep this morning, it wasn't very restful. I am not used to birds chirping outside my window while I'm trying to sleep. I gave up and got out of bed at 8:45 when Billy called me because he was bored driving to a site survey at work.

On the bright side, we found a house we like, and are just waiting for a response to our offer. As crazy as the market is right now because of the tax credit, we should keep looking in case something goes wrong with this one. We have seen easily 150 houses in the last couple months. We had our list cut down to 7 houses, then the next day 5 of those 7 were under contract. The other two we found major problems with. So we went back to square one. All this house hunting has been cutting into my study time, forcing me to stay up late catching up anyway. So, yes, I am very tired. And now I need to make my boys some lunch, so I will have to put off school again until after lunch while they are supposed to be sleeping.