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Everyone’s stolen my sleep
By Betsy Richter | 8:42 pmEveryone else I know has some kind of bug that has them sleeping for hours and hours and hours. They get up briefly, eat some, read some, write some – and then crawl back into bed, to consume movies, football, books. Inevitably, they fall asleep for another few hours. They’re sleeping most of the day and night, it seems.
While I don’t much want the assorted aches, pains, fevers and headaches I’ve heard about, well – I want my sleep back, please!
See, I believe these sick people have stolen it from me. Why else would I be waking up at 1 am. Falling back asleep at 3 am. Waking for the day at 5:30 am. (And this after a full Thanksgiving turkey dinner, no less…)
When I finally fall asleep 18 hours later (after a turkey sandwich and a relaxing hot toddy), I only manage to stay there until 4 am. Finally got up grudgingly, read email, started crockpot soup, then crawled back into bed to try to read myself into sleep. Managed to fall back asleep at 8 am, only to see 9:30, 10:00 and then 10:30 am on my clock before I give up and stumble back out of bed.
To add insult to injury? It was a kid-free weekend, people.
So I have two choices here, as I see it.
- Take that OTC sleeping aid I think I have buried in the back of the medicine cabinet somewhere (or, failing that, a slug of Nyquil).
- Steal someone else’s sleep by getting sick myself!
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