Friday, August 05, 2005

Sleep deprivation is fun.

It's 5:56 am.
It's 5:56 am, and I'm awake.
It's 5:56 am, and I'm awake because of several things. These things are:

1) Hubby's alarm went off. This is a common thing - he is supposed to be awake about 1 1/2 hours before me.
2) Hubby got up and reset the alarm so he could sleep some more, then snuggled up behind me. This, too, is common. It happens every morning.
2a) I should note, here, that Hubby can fall asleep in about 2 milliseconds. I, however, take much longer - usually 20 minutes or more (and that's if I'm lucky enough to be awake for only a minute or so).
2b) While snuggling, Hubby rests his head nearly atop mine. So as he falls asleep, he is both dropping his head to rest - painfully - against mine and snoring in my ear.
2c) Have you ever noticed that a sleeping persons' head seems to weigh about 100 pounds? Think of that squashing your own head into a pillow, and I'm sure you'll be able to feel my pain. (No pun intended).
2d) While I do thoroughly enjoy the snuggling, I spend the next 30 minutes or so (time that could be spent sleeping) getting more and more irritated at said squashing and snoring. But, being that I love the snuggling, I don't say anything because I don't want him to go away.
3) I finally give up the ghost and sit up to see the time, which is when Hubby informs me, "The clock is wrong. I hit the "time" button instead of the "alarm" button." So the clock now reads nearly 7 am, instead of 5:40 (I didn't know it was 5:40 until a bit later).
4) I flop back down into bed, only to get up a moment later when I realize I have to pee.
5) After having gone down to pee and checked the time (the clock was about 1:40 fast), I go upstairs and collapse into bed again.
6) I realize after about 5 minutes of staring at the ceiling that I am painfully awake.
6a) And on the heels of that: "If I continue to try to sleep, I'll manage to do so right about ten minutes before I have to be up, anyway."
So here I am. In a little over 30 minutes I have to start wandering around getting ready for a fun-filled day at work.


This is SO not going to be me today.

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