Oops

I haven’t stayed up all night in a long long time, I haven’t even stayed up super late in a long long time.  Bet and I tried over Dirt’s Winter Break we got as far as twelve thirty, maybe almost one, it was near impossible. I did stay up ’til eleven minutes after one on New Year’s eve but I struggled to stay awake.  Mostly did it just ‘cuz.  

And to think I used to stay up all night and read a whole book?  I used to be the counselor at camp that stayed up all night, hanging out with the girls, or keeping an eye on them take your pick, I could do it for about four nights. 

Then I began to stay up less and less late.  Somewhere in the last two years I’ve been attempting to match Dirt’s bedtime.  And to go to bed to actually go to bed, not read.  I’ve done fairly well, except for when we have company, I like to talk, or when he goes to bed at seven-forty or so, that’s kinda hard on me.  The worst is when he decides to nap on the tile floor right in front of the wood stove at about seven, and stays there ’til after ten.  Those nights I actually go to bed before he does, I love my tile floor but not to sleep on.  I’ve even left him watching TV, or reading the weather on the computer, and gone to bed without him – now that is weird.

But back to last night.  I fell asleep while watching Psyche with Bet and Dirt, woke up a little before nine, went in to bed.  Didn’t even hear Dirt come in from his trip down to my Hippy Hot Hut to load the wood stove.  And then midnight came along.  I woke up.  Took care of some bodily functions, went back to bed, listened to the fruit-loops on nut-job radio for about a half hour,  asked Dirt to turn off the radio,  stared at the ceiling for another hour,  got up.  Usually if I can’t sleep I just start praying for the people that come to mind, I think I made it through my entire list of friends and acquaintances when I realized that it wasn’t going to find me asleep any time soon. 

So I came out here to find rubber boots.  And comment on a couple of blogs.  Dirt came out at about three-thirty to check on me after he took care of some bodily function, he laughed at my boot search in the middle of the night.  But then he grabbed the other computer to check the weather and headed back to bed.  I yawned, so I grabbed a paper catalog and headed back to bed myself.  Dirt was done with his computer, said the snow during the week had been down graded.  I asked if a little light would bother him,  nope.  A couple of flips through the catalog another yawn.  Good, even though I was only an hour from when I wanted to get up, I shut off the light and went for it.  Hoping I could get to sleep.  Nope.  Not even after Dirt got up.  So here I am.  Typing my sleepless woes to you this morning.

Nothin’ on my mind, though some folks might think that I cause enough trouble during the day to keep me up at night, nothing was troubling me.  I know, I’m just a cold hearted wench.  So am I back to my old ways?  Nope.  Not unless I am stupid two times and take my morning supplements at about eight o’clock at night. 

I saw a batch of my morning supplements sitting in a ramekin on my counter as I finished up my evening tidying.  I knew they were morning ones because that is my largest batch.  I didn’t want to waste them, leave them out another night (they had been there a couple of days) or stuff them back in a little baby Ziploc bag.  Obviously, when I go to take my morning supplements, I keep forgetting they are there and just go get new ones out of my cupboard in the Cook’s Porch.  So what the heck, I took them.

So what’s in them that kept me awake so well?  It could have been the large dose of B’s that I take during the day.  But most likely it was the Green Tea capsules.  Yikes.  Those puppies are incredible.  No caffeine jitters, but what a punch.  I didn’t think I was taking them for keeping me awake, just for gobbling up free radicals (only one radical per household and I’m it already) to keep me from bein’ a cripple, or whatever it is that free radicals cause you to become.   But that was an incredible night, the likes of which I haven’t seen since last winter when the doc put me on prednisone for my pneumonia.  They gotta wear off sooner or later.  Then I think I’ll take a nap.