Sleep Eludes Me

It is 3:30 in the morning...No coffee yet, I might be able to get more sleep in...And believe me, I will try. Some mornings I would just turn on the coffee and forget it. Today, I think I may continue on for a couple of hours of dreamland.

Good thing I didn't turn on the pot of coffee yesterday. I thought it was four in the morning and it was a half hour before I realized it was 1:30. For somebody who has to get up and go to work, this would be a windfall. For somebody like me, who wonders if I will be able to go back to sleep, it is decision time..Coffee and forget it, or no coffee and try again...I hate lying there trying to go back to sleep...Too many things start popping in my head....Things to do, things not done, worrying.

Yesterday was one of those days when all I wanted was an hour nap...I took my daughter and her friend to get cake mix. I waited in the car so my daughter's friend could buy what she needed to make her mother a cake. Over thirty minutes in the car. She started telling me what the rags had to say about so and so...I told her I didn't want to hear about that and I knew the cake isle was nowhere near the rags! My daughter said, She has a short attention span...This I know. But some manners are in order here. I would never let my girls do that to somebody's mother. Then back to our house for cake pans...Back to her house so the girls could make FOUR boxes of cake. She couldn't get the concept of splitting the box into two pans for layer cake....

I called at 12:30 on my way to pick up my other daughter from rehearsal...She puts me on hold and then asks if she can call me back. I said, "NO, you may not call me back. Is she ready or not? They go back and forth...5:00, no 3:00. They decided on 3:30.

On the way home from rehearsal we see my hubby outside his office. He starts talking to us, I could not hear and was able to turn into the parking structure thru the clusterfuck of traffic! He asked if there was anything to eat up at the house...I dunno...He says, I am coming up for a fruit salad....

I rant to my daughter and her friend about my other daughter's friend. Both sat quietly and said nothing. I realized they didn't want to hear it. I thought they needed to hear what rude really is! My daughter says, "I would never ask my friend's mother to do that, let alone for that long, then go back to the house for pans." Well then, I have done my job!

Hubby comes up for lunch. Meanwhile, my daughter was trying to get in touch with her friend who had invited her over. No luck...Could happen at any moment though. Hubster goes back to the office, I tell my daughter, I am taking a NAP! Tell your sister, I will be there at 4:00. The phone rings four times in the hour I was trying to nap! "How do we make frosting?"

When I picked up my daughter, she got an earful....About waiting on her friend, waiting for them to call me for a ride, when they felt like it, then calling when they knew in the morning how much I needed a quick nap, I finally get one and they keep calling anyhow...

I think yesterday was the day of Nancy's Rant...Almost like a PMS day.

Then contending with tourists who want to stop at crosswalks, with nobody in them, nor a stop sign. Or stopping at a yield sign...Gotta merge people, get moving....Last day of workshop and rehearsal in the canyon, next to the Sawdust festival, today! Only down to the high school. Out of tourist traffic, before town, starting next week. In the theatre where Suessical will be held, opening on the sixth...Then to Leisure World the next weekend...Only two days of fighting traffic to get there. UGH...All in the name of love!

Okay, enough of that crap....I am going back to sleep. I hope. Today is going to be a great day...I am thinking positive thoughts now...Can you hear me???