Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Must. Get. More. Sleep.

I've been up since 12:54am. Woke up because - brace yourselves, this is shocking - I had to pee. Much like the other 11,283 times a day. Then, as is its custom, my brain kick-started into thinking of all of the things I have to do. At least 97 things waiting for me at my desk... why can I not call anybody at 3:08am? I would be so much more productive if acceptable calling hours were between 12-9am. If only all of my clients were in, uh, Spain?

My accomplishments of the morning thus far:

*Consumption of three cups of coffee, one water bottle, one string cheese and 40 billion dry roasted peanuts.
*Prayed for a house to sell, some of you know the one. Cursed out buyers and lender in my head. Prayed again to ask for forgiveness for praying they all get hit by a bus. Prayed once more they'd all get hit by a bus.
*Mentally flogged myself for not calling my father in law on his birthday two days ago.
*Three trips to potty.
*Eyeballed enormous stack of to-do stuff, sniffled and averted my eyes.
*Procrastinated on everything work related to mindlessly read blogs and check facebook. And thank goodness I did -- I otherwise wouldn't have known that someone I knew in college was craving carbs right before she went to bed and that someone I barely remember from high school is recently tonsil-less.
*Cry a little because I'm only 20 weeks pregnant and I'm already miserable, unable to sleep and too painfully tired to do anything useful.
*Prepare myself for the crushing guilt of letting my kids watch tv all day while I try to catch up on work stuff I should be doing right now and then attempt to take a nap. That won't ever happen.
*Become disgusted with myself because of the 97 things I need to do - the very reason I cannot go back to sleep - a grand total of 0 have been and most likely will be accomplished before little people start demanding things of me.
*Bore whoever reads this with silly, over-tired drivel.
*Make that four trips to potty.

Edited to add: I tried to go back to bed around 4:30, after I read the same line 45 times. I was on the brink of sleep (brink!) when Justin released gas strong enough to shake windows. Twice. I began to ponder if one would check the "irreconcilable differences" box on the divorce request or is there a more applicable box to my situation? Then Littlest came in apparently with bubble wrap on her feet and/or carrying ball bearings in a metal pot. I played dead. She finally left and the birds started chirping outside. We've been here 6+ years and this is the only time I've ever heard chirping birds in the morning. Universe, what did I ever do to you?

12 comments:

Mary Lee said...

Keep drinking that coffee and you won't have to worry about needing sleep!

Elizabeth said...

Poor Kristi! I'll be praying for you:)

Kathy said...

Too funny....well, I'm a nice safe distance away to utter those words, thankfully! : )

CaraBee said...

Ironically, I was eating a string cheese while I read this. I hope you get some sleep tonight!

Jasmyn said...

I am so sorry you cannot sleep...and diddo on the whole pregnancy thing. I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.

Unknown said...

LOL, the gas thing was the best...I can totally relate!

Hope you sleep better tonight!

Carrie said...

I hate chirping birds! But in our MB, we have a ceiling fan, a sound machine, a baby monitor piping in the kid's sound machine and the air conditioner going ... the bird could be sitting on my brain and I'd have a hard time hearing it!

KatBouska said...

Just. Breathe. Juuuuuuuust. Breathe. We can get through this...just 20 some odd weeks to go. And then everything is easy again...but not really because you'll have an infant. OHMYGODYOU'REGONNAHAVEANINFANT!!!! Holy crap holy crap...ok breathe breathe breathe...I'm not helping am I?

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Anonymous said...

Be kind to yourself, my dear! I mean, for God's sake, you're growing a human. And you're anything but boring while doing so.

Dana said...

Holy Cow. I'm tired just reading your list. I think the girls need to employed as your assistants. I'm sure they could check email and answer the phone. The FB line cracked me up the most - so true!

Mikele said...

Dang.