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Every night he has huge projects planned for himself. Huge intricate projects that could never possibly be completed before bedtime. Projects he obsesses over working on until it consumes his every thought. Things like - unhooking his computer and rehooking it up, replacing all of the batteries in toys he never plays with, finding his CD that went missing when he was four, reorganizing his video games, reorganizing his movies, reloading all of the music in his mp3 and in his sister's mp3 player, reorganize his 1000 pieces of Star Wars stuff...

And seriously, this is stuff from just the last week! Tonight was a double whammy of projects - finding the CD that went missing when he was 4 (and he can tell you when it went missing, where we were at and what he was wearing) and replacing batteries.

I don't mind the OCD qualities of the projects. I understand his feeling of need in accomplishing these seemingly silly tasks. Instead, the horrible'ness of this is the frustration he feels when the proects aren't completed as quickly as he hoped (Im sure it's because he was hoping to quickly rock out several projects a night instead of just one!). Frustration leads to anger - isn't anger the path to the dark side?? If only my Star Wars analogies would help me out! You would think that someone so into Star Wars and determined to be a Jedi (well Jedi & blimp driver) when he grows up would be more willing to hear my analogies.

So, closing yet another night filled with the sound of mechanical happenings coming from his room.

PS - we played Star Wars trivial pursuit with hima nd he got nearly all correct Crazy things like 'In New Hope who was the first to speak and what did they say'. He's such a cool super memorizer kid!