I house-sat with my mom recently and to put it shortly, it’s hard to sleep in someone else’s house when it’s storming outside and the dog is crying and barking for hours in the middle of the night. And you have a toothache. The schedule went something like:

10pm go to sleep
12pm wake up  with a toothache, thinking (hoping) it’s almost morning
1:00am wake up to check if morning is any closer
1:30am wake up because tooth is really hurting
2:00am wake up because dog is barking - just after falling asleep
2:30am dog is still barking and whining. I start to wonder if there’s something
out there. Of course at that point, I think all of the hairs in your ears must
stand on high alert and I must have heard every creak in the house. My blood
pressure probably also rose!
3:00am remember that the last time the dog barked in the middle of the night
there was a rabid racoon on the grounds and realize she doesn’t normally bark
all night (but what can I do about it, as I can’t see anything out there?)
4:30am wake up and realize it’s only a few more hours to morning! And amazingly,
sleeping with on my back with my head straight up and down alleviates some of my
toothache
5:00am still dark. No point in getting up and waiting around for hours to leave
6:30am alarm goes off and I realize that I actually have slept for a few hours during the night!

The drive over was really neat (if I could put it that way.) It was almost whiteout conditions in the valleys of the road where the fog almost completely obscured the way. And it was swirling fog. It was whiter than I have ever seen, and kind of spooky! Like something from a movie. I somehow managed to drive there, although it was slow going and I had to look at the posts on the side of the road to see where I was going at some points, with almost no idea where I was in the road.

Now yesterday during the day I went shopping, and I bumped into a ton of people I haven’t seen since we went on our last tour, and some I haven’t seen even from before then. One person told me I looked tired. I think I’ve been getting less sleep now that I’m getting up earlier. I intend to go to bed early (9:30pm or 10pm?) so I can get up at 6:00am without a thought of remaining in bed, but I always tend to find
something to do, and end up staying up till 10:30 or 11pm. Someone has said “If you burn the candle at both ends it’s brighter,” but it’s also said that it extinguishes faster that way!

Posted by Bonnie under health, sleep

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