If anything can go wrong...

It's nearly 2 a.m. ...

I can't sleep...AGAIN~!

One difference this time though, my youngest daughter, Mariah is awake with me.

She has developed an awful cough and is running a low grade temp. Dry and coarse, it seems to return from time to time just to make things difficult for her and me.
We've tried a few non-prescription things tonite... including throat spray-which she hates with a passion and the remnants of a prescription cough syrup in the cupboard.

She continues barking - unable the stop this nagging monster. Its awful to hear her continue when I can't do anything to help her tonite.
I don't know what else to do.. especially this late.

Tomorrow she is scheduled to go with her class to San Francisco for their graduation celebration.
We are insomniacs here, creatures of the night. She has a hard time sleeping at night so she was so careful to get to bed early.
Now this cough has had her up for the last hour. She is worried that she will have trouble in the morning on so little sleep.

Crap.

Well, now that I got THAT off my chest I'm going back to try and sleep....


Night.

damned clock...

greeaat~!

here it is 4:30 a.m., and again I am unable to sleep.

this happens to me from time to time. about this time of morning i find myself having to decide if i try and eek out a few hrs sleep until the sun comes up and asks me to rise and act in a somewhat civilized manner. accomplish all those waking hour things, like pay bills, feed kids, (and myself), over see homework, dodge bill collector phone calls etc, or do i just submit to the loss, get up and drudge thru the coming day short on sleep?

crap. i just ain’t as young as i once was. all nighters take their toll inna big way now.

today the coin landed on 'get yer ass up and deal.'

so soon i will be staggering into the kitchen and making hot breakfast for my kids...

likely sourdough pancakes and a glass of orange juice.
they will likely be thankful if i accomplish preparing the meal quietly enough to not wake them clattering dishes and pans...otherwise they will be typical grumbly morning teenagers.

another cost of this Slumberous Interruptus (sorry, its early, or late, or something - and that’s my Wile E. Coyote Latin – in my head, it’s funny)... anyway, another cost is that the stress it causes my body and mind can easily translate into significant pain control problems, so I will be loading up on morphine early in the game.

i’ll need to be careful today to not be bitchy or my kids will gang up on me and compound my hangover like discomfort. I am hormonally outnumbered in this house and should better learn to keep my head down and my mouth shut.

Good morning all~!!