Drumroll please.......

So today I'm super tired, so I'm going to keep this short because I see bedtime in the very near future, never mind that it's only 7:30... You have to understand because this week my mom was out of town, which means that I got to be "mom" on Monday and Tuesday to my three younger siblings who are still at home. This may sound easy, but I promise you, it's totally not. Let's pull out our timeline again.

7:15 a.m. Wake up Emma for school

7:20 Feed Emma and and self, brush Emma's hair.

7:30 Wash and dress self

7:45 Make sure Emma has everything for school

7:50 Take Emma and puppies out to the bus stop.

7:59 Emma's bus finally comes

8:00 Wait for puppies to pee.

8:05 Still waiting.

8:06 Puppies finally pee!

8:07 Give puppies treat

8:10 Start work

9:30 Stop work, leave to take Caleb to rehab appt.

10:00-12:00 Caleb at rehab, me working in the waiting area.

12:15 p.m. Arrive at Wegmans :)

12:23 Eat delicious Wegman's chinese food (and maybe a few other foods)

12:45 Leave Wegmans

1:10 Arrive at home

1:15 Work some more

3:15 PANIC. Discover Caleb has to be at play practice and Eli needs to be picked up at school—both at 3:30.

3:29 Drop off Caleb and friend at play practice

3:34 Pick up Eli at school

3:35 Race home to beat Emma's bus

3:47 FAIL. Missed Emma's bus by 2 minutes. The one day it had to come early. Luckily, I left her a note that she found on the kitchen counter, so she was not scarred for life by coming home to an empty house.

3:50 Work some more

5:25 Finish work

5:26 Frantically try to put marinating chicken meat and vegetables on kabob skewers

5:43 Put kabobs in fridge.

5:45 Pile everyone in the van to take Eli to saxophone lesson

6:00 Play Monopoly Deal with Emma in the van while we wait for Eli to finish lesson. Caleb and friend find us after their play practice.

6:45 Arrive back at home

6:46 Try to pull together dinner as fast as possible

6:47 Realize there is no propane in the gas tank to start the grill

6:50 Dad arrives home.

6:55 Dad goes to Sears to refill propane tank.

7:20 Dad finally arrives home with propane tank. Let the grilling commence. Eat some chocolate covered raisins to keep from fainting

7:45 Finally time to eat dinner.

8:15 Fullness and exhaustion hit. Realize that I still need to pack for DC :(

8:30 Packing, laundry, various miscellaneous tasks.

10:30 p.m. Finally, bedtime.

So that was my day yesterday. My blood pressure rises just typing out my ridiculously day. And then I woke up at 5:15 this morning, drove three hours to the office, and worked a 7 hour day. So yes, a I think I might be entitled to my tiredness.

Anyways, I need to get to the point. I've got some SERIOUSLY EXCITING NEWS!!!!! Get ready....... (drum rolllll).....

I'M PUBLISHING A FEATURE ARTICLE FOR THE MAGAZINE!

Yes, that's right! Remember how I told you the other day about how the senior editor asked me what I would like to write about in the magazine? Well, I wrote about something awesome, and she thought it was a great idea! So they are going to publish it as one of their FEATURE articles in either the November or December issue of the magazine!!! WAHOOOOO! So not only am I finally going to be a published author (one of my new year's resolutions, by the way), but I will be a published author BEFORE I graduate college, and it is going to be one of their main feature articles! They only do about 3 a month, and they are usually about 6 pages long! I get my own 6 pages in an international magazine!!! This is way cooler than them using my title for one of the feature articles next month...

In case you can't tell, I'm a little bit excited. I've known about it since Friday, but I've literally been either too crazy busy or too exhausted to tell the world about it. Crazy, right? I've told just a handful of people so far, but really not many. And now you know my crazy cool news!

Today I worked on my feature article some more: I'm trying to pull together a couple of interviews to include. I also transcribed an interview for our editor, made a zillion copies of the entries for our Project Centerline contest, and worked on a book review that I'm doing.

And now I'm very tired. I think my mattress is calling my name :) Lllindsayyyyyyy....