Argh. I hate this time of year.
I'm tired from trying to get by with about 4 hours sleep per night.
Why, might you ask, am I getting so little sleep?
Well, it's hard to get a good night's sleep when:
1. The dog decides it really wants to try to sleep on the bed. This particular Sheltie knows enough not to bark in the middle of the night (and plaster me to the ceiling like in a Wile E. Coyote cartoon), but she's adept at uttering barely audible growls, grunts and whines – just enough to pull me out of sleep;
2. Outside my window, the cardinals, robins and assorted feathery creatures decide, yes, it's TIME TO ASSERT OUR TERRITORY! There be some bad-assed mofo birds out there, and they WILL let you know that they have staked their claim!
3. Sunrise at my latitude is about 5:15 AM and sunset about 9:00 PM. Add an hour of light at dawn and dusk, so the night is quite short, and so is my sleep. Curtains? Yeah, I have them, but they don't work, really – I just know it's light out there…
4. My spouse's uvula and soft palate start to vibrate. You'd think that after 20+ years of living with the little lady that I would be used to it by now, but nope, I'm not!
The net result is that I wake up tired, and it doesn't get better during the day. Some days, I feel like I'm wading through molasses, I'm so tired.
I can't wait for August where things realign themselves…
