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Friday, September 19, 2003

3:00 a.m., can't sleep

This won't be a long entry; I remember with shame how I used to plague my friends by writing letters to them when I couldn't sleep which were so boring they could have been used as a form of torture. So I won't duplicate that here if I can help it. :)


I hate 2:30 a.m. That's always the hour when I wake up and have to pee and can't find a comfortable position to go back to sleep afterward; then C will wake from a bad dream or fall out of bed or both, and she'll want a drink of water along with a comforting. Tonight, to add to the general mood, LT came tottering out of his room and into the bathroom just as I was again trying to get back to sleep after tending to C. Now, he is NOT a night time person; he doesn't wake well and usually sleeps all night, although in his sleep, he generally looks like he's had a wrestling match with his blankets before beating them into submission. Anyway, his 2:30 wake-up call this morning was a bloody nose. He gets these with some frequency but they're never severe. So after I tended to him and got him back to bed, I decided to give up for the time being on going to sleep, and I turned on the computer. [g] The accursed 2:30 was redeemed -- the first thing I saw in my email was a notify-list notification from a friend of mine, and I read her journal to discover that she is expecting baby #2. Great news! And to add to it, another mutual friend of ours had left a comment with the URL to her journal; I haven't been in regular contact with this person and I've missed her, and I got to read all about her wedding last month which was another treat.


Now if only I had some chocolate. As I was trying to go to sleep, I calculated my calories yesterday and unless I'm mistaken, I was about 100 calories under my minimum yesterday. I'd love to be making up for that now with part of a Dairy Milk bar. mmm. Somehow a nice practical glass of nonfat milk doesn't have the same effect...

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