Hello My Lovelies! If you are reading this it means you survived your weekend so YAY you 🍾🥂! It also means that I survived the weekend, so double YAY for me.
My mental equilibrium is almost back in balance for the moment, but this weekend was trying my resolve. Friday started off well enough – dinner and a little shopping with a friend. Then came Friday night 😬.
You see when I have bouts of bad sleep, I hate going to sleep, because I know it’s going to be awful so I stay up way too late in hopes that it will improve my sleep (It’s flawed logic, but it’s my logic 😆). Around one a.m., I finally turn my fan on (white noise), my lights off and begin my usual sleeping tricks to keep my mind from wandering too far in the dark. And I drift off only to awaken at 1:45 am because of a power outage (fan stops making noise – I wake up 😁). At first, I think it’s only my house because I was foggy from 40 minutes of sleep, then I think “Great, I’ve got to find my way over to the electrical box in the cold dark garage, with limited lighting to work with 😡” and finally I realize that maybe it isn’t just my house (this whole train of thought probably took 3 minutes to cycle through 😆). So, I look out the windows on all sides to see what’s up and sure enough, the whole neighborhood (and farther) is out. And I’m cursing myself for not putting in a generator because it’s cold outside and I don’t have heat 🥶 and I don’t like being cold (although to be fair the powerlines in our area are buried so a power outage should be unlikely).
Now I’m wide awake, checking Facebook to see if there are any post about the cause, how long it’s projected to take to fix, wondering if I should call and report the outage or have enough people already called, planning an exit strategy if it isn’t fixed by the morning and finally deciding that there isn’t much I can do at 2:30 in the morning and I should try to go back to sleep (after grabbing a sweatshirt and extra blanket 😁). Then I spend another half hour trying to fall back asleep. Of course about an hour after I finally drift off again, the power comes back on (WooHoo) and now I’m awake again, thanks to the all of the electrical start-up noises (including the fan) 🙄. I thought Fate was cutting me a break, but she was definitely toying with my sleep Friday night and as a result, I was useless most of Saturday. It became a Netflix and chill day – when I wasn’t drifting off 🥱.
Thankfully by Sunday, I was a little more coherent 😊. And I remembered to wish my parents a happy anniversary (55 years and counting 😮) and my BIL happy birthday (also 55 years – the old man 😁) both belatedly. I’m blame the delay on the power outage and my broken brain 😜.
But that is the past and it is a brand spanking new week that I plan to make the most of it. How about you?
Note: If you’re looking for something to binge – check out Stay Close on Netflix. Limited series based off a Harlan Coben novel.
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