dear penelope,

You're tired. You're reaching the end of your little rope. The last red fish is dying, and the cookies may have come out crumbly. But a word to the wise: now is not the time to break so many bad habits at once. It just makes you feel ickier, not better. Pick and choose a few maybe?
You just can't do all of the following at once:
break the baby of his nighttime/naptime pacifier habit
stop drinking caffeine
cut back/eliminate soda intake
cut back the chocolate habit
stop using the baby swing as a sleep crutch
stop using irritating terms such as "sleep crutch"
recycle more
turn on the lights less
stop using Deal or No Deal as background noise
institute new sleeping regime for K.Lo
teach N.Lo to self-soothe
read through the growing stack of magazines, sort/store/recycle
use Netflix membership more
get rid of all the baby books with inane plots
make sure K.Lo brushes teeth 2x daily
reply to all your long-lost email friends
stop losing/letting good blog ideas go to the wayside
quit MySpace
wear your socks with the right side out

It's just... madness. And not going to happen, at least not all at once, and certainly not in this frame of mind. In short, for the moment, perhaps it would just be better to relax.

xoxo,
some distant voice of peneloreason