Do you ever have one of those nights in which you just can’t turn your brain off? You end up laying there awake for hours trying to will your thoughts away so that you can sleep. For the most part I am the type of person that falls asleep within a few minutes of going to bed, but if I happen to wake up during the night – forget about it. I have so much trouble falling back to sleep once I’m up.
Last night was one of those nights that I couldn’t fall asleep. No matter how hard I tried I couldn’t stop thinking.
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I started thinking about the price of stamps. At just 44 cents each, they really are a bargain. For less than a dollar, you can slap a stamp on a piece of mail and in two days or less, it makes it way clear across the county. I should send more letters. But who would I send them to? No one sends letters – or even pays bills through the mail anymore. Plus I’d probably get a hand cramp because I hardly ever actually write anything out anymore. And then half way through my letter, my writing would start to get messy and my OCD would kick in. I’d have to throw the letter away because I didn’t like the way my writing looked and start from scratch.
Ok, ok – I’ll stick to emails.
But all that thinking about mail and such made me think about my mail man. He’s hot. And if I didn’t do my part by sending something – anything- through the mail, he’d be out of a job. Then I wouldn’t be able to stand off to the side of my kitchen window and stalk him watch him with my binoculars. And what if he got laid off because he is young and has less years in than other people. He has kids to take care of. And then I would get stuck with the old man and he’s certainly not worth stalking – with binoculars or otherwise.
And that got me to wondering what I was getting for Christmas this year because the binoculars were a Christmas present from my mother many, many years ago. I asked her for a North Face this year, but somehow I don’t think that’s gonna happen.
And from there, my brain just spiraled out of control and here are a few more things that kept me from my precious beauty sleep:
- How can my kids cough in their sleep without waking up?
- I wish I had noticed that my Christmas tree was lopsided before I brought it home.
- The blinking lights I have on my tree are way cooler than plain lights that don’t blink. Fact.
- Why am I so hungry right now?
- My tooth hurts – damn it. I seriously need to find a new dentist.
- My hair smells fantastic.
- I totally want to watch The Goonies tomorrow afternoon, but I know I’ll probably forget.
- How can I get out of this thing on Saturday that I really don’t want to do.
- I wonder when my ex is going to give me the money he owes me for the kids medical bills.
- And I wonder if he’s ever gonna pay up for the 7 year old’s drum lessons like he keeps telling me he is. Ya right.
- I should really clean out the kids toys before Christmas to make room for new stuff.
- Oh, and I have to put batteries on my shopping list, but I have no doubt I’ll forget all about it – until Christmas morning that is.
- I can’t believe the kids are still coughing….
I swear to you that these are all true. At some point while I was laying in my bed, all of the things listed above crossed my mind.
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