New Bedtime: 1 AM

I just attempted to explain why 10:46 PM is pretty late for my four year old to still be awake, but she's busy looking at a book that teaches different rhymes with accompanying hand movements and has no intention of "getting sleepy" anytime soon. Eventually, reasoning with her is futile and you let it go and walk away, knowing that she'll eventually put herself to sleep on her own. I'm sure I'm getting paid back for something I did to my own parents as a 4 year old. Don't we all? Sigh.
So here I am, letting my fifth cup of tea for the day brew, in hopes that it'll relieve my incredibly sore throat. I've just come off of a very busy period of about two months in which I organized a ton of things for a kids consignment sale (and my own house), entered a knitting-til-you-drop contest, joined another book club, planted a garden, went out of town alone with my kids, started summer golf and oh yea, started my own business! Sheesh, when I write all of it down, it seems ridiculous, but it all really happened. Plus, I was reminded of my lack of invincibility by getting really sick with some alien throat pathogen that sneaked in while I was killing myself in order to finish that knit-til-you-drop sweater until 4 AM every night. Seriously, what was I thinking! So things are now mercifully settling down in our house.
I'm kind of not sure what to do with myself. Usually, I'm pretty motivated in my night owl hours, but things seem to be in order around here. Could I almost be done in creating a well organized household? Sure, there are a couple of small things I could organize, but nothing that jeopardizes national security (as so many household issues do). For the past few nights I've not had much of anything to do except catch up on my DVR'd shows and nurse my sore throat. Plus, I'm kind of tired and it's only 11:13pm, which is pretty early for me. I mean, I'll start watching a movie that starts at midnight and think nothing of it. But something's changed lately. Hmmm... Yep, it may have finally happened: I'm getting old. I did just turn 35 and a HALF, you know. All downhill from here! Well, at least everything is organized.