Saturday, November 20, 2010

I want to be asleep, but this is obviously WAY more important

I was in bed. I was happy to be there. Before getting there, I really wanted to be there. My eyes had been burning and watering and they were just so MAD at me for having been open for so FREAKING LONG!! I layed down, and got all snuggled under my 1000 thread count egyptian cotton sheets and my super fluffy-cozy down comforter. I was positioned in my most comfortable superman pose with my 21 year old pillow tucked just right beneath my head, (we'll discuss that later) and I was SO looking forward to the next 8 or even NINE hours of blissful unconsciousness. Maybe looking forward to it too much? My kids aren't at home. For the first time in 8+ years, I am at my house and they are all at Nana's for the night. Freedom. Nobody's going to call my name in the middle of the night and ask me for juice, or if they can take off their pajamas, or if they can be Iron Man Girl next halloween, or tell me that the movie they've watched ten THOUSAND times already is suddenly "soooo scaaardey" and they need another one.
*brain clicks on*
The kids don't need any more movies, they need to read more books. I need to finish that childrens' book I started 7 years ago and never finished. It's been so long since I've worked on it I don't even know if my illustrating style has changed. I wonder if it's like riding a bike. No, it's not like riding a bike at all, it's like drawing, you can't draw while riding a bike, the two are totally unrelated. But I bet if I could draw and ride a bike, and somebody got it on video, I could youtube it and get millions of viewers and become famous, and therefore, rich, because don't the two go hand in hand? Can you be famous and not be rich? Probably. I don't think John Wilkes Booth was rich and everybody knows about him. But he's famous for all the wrong reasons, so that pro'lly doesn't count. He didn't get famous by doing awesome stuff like drawing while riding a bike. If I could draw and ride a bike, I wouldn't even have to finish the book, because I bet just one or two drawing-while-riding episodes would probably rake in enough dough to make me independantly wealthy! I'm a genius! And everybody thought my brother had all the smarts. Smarts FARTS! I'm brilliant! I mean c'mon - the Upside Down Show is two guys with an imaginary remote control and their special effects consist of somebody turning the cam-corder upside down every few minutes, and they've got their own frickin' TELEVISION SHOW with that Einstein ingenuity. SURELY, my razzle-dazzle bike-riding-artsy extravaganza will be more captivating than that! I could even up the stakes every new episode by changing up the riding apparati. I could start with training wheels, and then graduate to a big-girl bike, and then maybe one of those old fashioned GIANT front wheel bikes, and then maybe, if I'm super tricky, I could even do a uni-cycle! The possibilities are practically endless! and WHY AM I STILL AWAKE!?!?!?!?!?