I guess it is a good problem to have:

I have slept a million hours, had fabulous conversations with my husband, and read the second half of a book and two magazines, and all watched four hours of the Oscars. Now I am sitting up at 11:40 p.m. and I can’t shut my brain off.

On one hand, it is great to think that I have crammed so much useful stuff into my brain over the course of 48 hours. I even got some work done that is “due” tomorrow. But sometimes Sunday nights make me feel helpless. I have all these ideas floating in my head and I want to do something with them. The problem is that I have to sleep, wake up, get dressed and then commute in before I can take any action.

(sigh)

Again – good problem to have. But it means that most Sunday nights you will find me sitting up late and fretting over stuff I can’t do anything about until I get to the office.
A waste of energy? Sure. But it is exciting to be losing sleep over the desire to be proactive and focused on Monday morning. I am fully aware that many folks out there hate their jobs, their commute and even their weekends.

So, if this is my biggest problem I am doing pretty good

I can’t recall the exact date it happened, but at some point since I met my husband I became a little learning sponge.

I always did well in school. I learned what I needed to learn to ace the test and then promptly forgot those lessons as I crammed in new ones. (Except for history. Loved history.)

Now I find myself reading Business Week for fun. For most major holidays my husband gives me books with titles like “The Portable MBA” and ”100 Words to Make You Sounds Smart.” This is a turning point for me. I sit in meetings at work and actually enjoy can bear to listen to financial reports and data center updates. It feels good.

I even posed this question to a peer last month: “Yes, but is it scalable?”

I don’t know what has come over me. I hope it never goes away.

Now that we are just two weeks out from Valentine’s Day, you should buy this freakin cool Mini Cooper t-shirt or this tiny car enthusiast t-shirt for the one you love.

You can check out my smart and handsome husband’s entire t-shirt inventory at SwagHappy.com. Buying one of his shirts is much cheaper than buying your sweetie an actual car.

Motor on!