Well, my daughter has a boyfriend again. They broke up for a while. Long story. But now he's back in our lives, and he was over here again last night until around 11:30. Which, of course, means our daughter couldn't fall asleep until 1:30 am. Oh, the thrill of young romance, texting all your friends, and Facebooking how your evening went. Then, of course, she was hungry. So she clanked around in the kitchen for a while. Do all 16-year-olds stay up this late?
I went online, checked Facebook for a while, goofed around talking politics with my friends who I knew would not answer my emails until the morning because, unlike me, they were sensible people. I googled someone I knew seven years ago. Watched an old episode of Mad About You (they're all old episodes by now). Then, just as I was headed to bed, my son woke up and climbed in beside me. It's as if he can't sleep once all is quiet. A little noise must comfort him enough to stay in his own bed. Once that's over, he stumbles across the hall and into mine. It never fails!
After a fretful few hours of sleep, most of it coverless and squashed, I heard my husband's alarm go off. It was 6 am and I had hardly slept. So now I sit in a quiet house amid sleeping children. It's 10 am and I can't fall back to sleep again.
Not a creative post, nor an enthusiastic one. But share my pain, will ya?
Critique group is tonight... Looks like that coffee's gonna hafta be caffeinated!
Yours -- consciousness raised or not,
Megan Elizabeth
2 comments:
oh wow. And that's all I can say via a blog post. (looks like a phone chat is on the horizon...)
hugs,
Donna
I once read that we're most creative just before sleep and just after waking up....maybe you're in the perfect in between state today and thus have heightened creativity!
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