After work yesterday, I hopped in my car and headed down to see Jeff’s aunt. \u00a0I had a sort of vague notion of where her place was since I hadn’t been there for a while and ended up driving around almost randomly until I found the right street and enough landmarks. \u00a0Which is unlike me – I’m usually ready with a map in hand before heading out, but I was over-confident in my ability to find the place. \u00a0Turned out she wasn’t ready yet and I waited for a bit before we headed out to Olive Garden for dinner.<\/p>\n
We chatted through dinner and had a nice time. \u00a0It was a little sad that Jeff wasn’t there as well, but I think it did us both some good. \u00a0After dinner I headed home and played some games for a bit and tried to call my former neighbors to invite them for a visit this weekend – but had to leave voice-mail. \u00a0I also got voice-mail from Jeff’s brother (he had called while I was driving home) – but he said he was going out with friends and I didn’t call back.<\/p>\n
It was warm in my house since I didn’t have the AC on, but I didn’t think it would get in the way of my sleeping. \u00a0Here’s what did:<\/p>\n
1. A some point in the night, I got the feeling that a heavy weight \u00a0– like, person heavy – was placed on one side of the bed, then lifted over me and set down on the other side, then lifted off the bed. \u00a0 Like someone had sat down on the bed and then climbed over me. \u00a0And since I was sleeping alone and don’t have any pets, I catapulted out of sleep and was wide awake and freaked out in about 1.4 pico-seconds.<\/p>\n
I got myself calmed down and drifted back into the closest I was going to get to sleep for the night when:<\/p>\n
2. The phone rang – at 1:00 in the morning. \u00a0The phone was in the pocket of my pants and I scrambled out of bed to get it – knowing full well I wouldn’t get there in time and worried that it was something important. \u00a0My sister is way\u00a0pregnant\u00a0and I was worried that she might have gone into labor or something. \u00a0The phone stopped ringing as soon as I got to it and \u00a0I saw that it was Jeff’s brother. \u00a0 \u00a0He left a message asking me to call him. \u00a0 \u00a0I declined to call him back right then and instead dragged myself to the bathroom to pee and then back to bed. \u00a0\u00a0(this morning I found he had also sent a text message to me at quarter to one and posted something on facebook at 2 am. \u00a0Nice gestures, but perhaps ill timed.)<\/p>\n
3. The rest of the night was spent tossing and turning, partly awake and the rest vaguely nightmare filled sleep.<\/p>\n
This morning when the alarm went off, I nearly wept. \u00a0I’m not used to this – I’m really really good at sleeping and was unprepared for last night. \u00a0Got up, got dressed, and headed into work. \u00a0Today is going to be a long day and I am bound and determined that tonight I am getting a good nights sleep. \u00a0Air conditioner on, ear plugs in, eye-mask on, and phone turned off. \u00a0And woe bit it to anyone who\u00a0interferes\u00a0in that – pretty sure I’m going to be all wrath-y if that happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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