I am failing miserably at keeping up with the things in my life that need to be done. Some of this is not my fault, but most of it is. For example, blogging, keeping the house AT least picked up if not clean, staying on top of my school lectures...these are things that I can control but am doing bad at. The good thing is that Matt is working this weekend, so I will have plenty of time for all of that. I am averaging about 6 hours of sleep per night since Sunday night, so by the time I have run and taken the dogs out and gotten dinner, I am pretty much worthless. :) The one thing that I tried to stay on top of was laundry. I didn't do any this weekend because Jake was here and I had much better things to do. However, I got my act together on Monday and put a load in, only to come back an hour later and find that the washer is no longer spinning or draining. It had already been leaking water out of the bottom, but I was making due with putting towels underneath it because it wasn...