It's interesting how not getting enough sleep can make you over sensitive and grouuuouchy! We finally had Daughter #1's birthday celebration on Friday night.. She had wanted a sleepover where she would have her friends over and they could talk and yak until the wee small hours of the morning. 6 teenagers kept yaking until 3:37 a.m. and that was when the light went off. I know because I was awake when it did.
Teapot and I had our supper in the kitchen letting the girls have their fun in the dining room. After dinner had been served and cake too Teapot and I made our way up stairs to avoid the gab about boys... sometimes there are things that you just don't want to know and having your head firmly ensconced in terra firma is good with me in those circumstances. We had our tea a la bedroom while reading and generally passing the time. At 10 p.m. we decided that we were ready for bed and so Teapot made his way down into the sea of giggling girls to tell Daughter #1 not to forget to put the cat out and to turn the heat back.
Obviously the cat took priority because somewhere around 2 a.m. I woke feeling like a Raygo roller had just gone over me and left me looking like Flat Stanley only with a dead rat in my mouth. I managed to get to the sink where I poured myself a glass of water and downed like a camel who hasn't seen an oasis in 6 months. Once that was done I seemed to have my wits around me a little better. I covered the vent where the warm air from the furnace circulates from and crawled back into bed. I had already been having disturbing dreams about giving Daughter #1 a birthday party and not having enough food and other likely dreams where her birthday turned out to be a disaster. At this point I mumbled something to Teapot about being really hot and maybe we should open a window.... meanwhile Daughter #1 and her giggling band of friends were still to be heard downstairs with no end in sight. I rolled over and put it out of my head as Teapot mumbled something about baking to me.
3 a.m. I couldn't stand it any longer! I had just woken once again from a disturbing dream about my father and mother requiring home care..... and they came to live with us (a horrible dream for sure... probably as much for them as for us)!!! I had to go figure out why Teapot and I were baking in our oven like bedroom. I sneaked downstairs in my nighty... and peaked into the kitchen.... they weren't even in their jammies yet!!! I whispered to Daughter #1 to please turn back the heat... and she informed me that it was reading 24 degrees in the kitchen... no wonder the dear boy and I were dreaming bad dreams. About a half an hour later they settled down as one after the other got into the pjs and crashed on the foamies on the floor of the living room. I was upstairs trying desperately to regulate the heat in our room with open windows where -32 degrees temperature poured through the window... however, the temperature Gods were not having anything to do with it... the room was warm and would remain so for quite a while by which time I was wide awake. And that was it.. no more sleep for me for the whole night.
As a result of our night of no sleep... we have all been super grouchy yesterday and even this morning I still feel like stomping on the head of anyone who looks at me...
Reasons to be grouchy:
1. It has been snowing here for days...
2. I have a three day head ache happening...
3. I feel fat and ugly after a Christmas of eating, eating, and more eating....
4. Teapot complained about nothing being done in the kitchen and I was feeling sensitive about being lazy yesterday.... so I snapped at him and he snapped at me. (this is a rare occurrence).
5. I snapped at Daughter #2 for complaining about a head ache that she wouldn't do anything about. (Like take a Tylenol)
6. There were piles of dishes that needed to be done.
7. Teapot was late getting home from the JCR shoot and so we were late for a dinner at our friend's house... I hate being late.
8. I felt like a pork barrel after eating pizza and ice cream cake at Daughter #1's birthday and then eating sushi, and shrimp jambalaya at our friend's house.
9. Because I was really tired and didn't want to go out at all
10. The dog chewed up a catalogue all over our bed while we were at our friend's house for dinner.
11. The cat kept running away every time I went to put him out...
12. The other cat slept on the couch all night long when he knows he's not allowed up on the furniture and he has a lovely bed of his own in the form of a footstool under the steps...
And the most important reason for feeling grouchy....
13. I was really really tired!
It didn't help that we are coming up to the full moon here in just 4 more days... that means that the werewolf is almost upon me... I bet I'm sprouting hairs on my back!!!
Maybe today will be better.... I've had a good sleep, there's soup in the pot, there's bread in the oven, there's peas soaking for another pot of pea soup, the dishes from yesterday are done and the nicest thing of all is that everyone is avoiding me because I was so grouchy yesterday which means I have peace and quiet to read the news and blog here... I just had a cup of coffee which was really good and now I'm going to go make some more bread.
See ya tomorrow and I hope you are having a nice Sunday.
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