...I feel refreshed and relaxed for the first time in over a week.

Yesterday, I had planned on going directly home to do some cleaning and go to sleep. The last week or so has been a whirlwind of not getting a lot of sleep compounded by other stress in my life. Over the last week, I have had an average of about four hours of sleep a night. Some nights were less than that. With school, work, Easter week services, and two shows since the 15th... I was pretty run down.

So, that was the plan. What ended up happening is I went over by the lady and spent some time with her just relaxing. She cooked me up a great dinner, and we just sat watching television and playing chess. At about 9, it was time to go home. After my 45 minute drive home, the effects of my non sleep routine started to really kick in. I won't get in to specifics. It was not pleasant. 

I got some really good sleep last night, and I dont think my body knew how to handle it. I woke up at 2am, and then at 6am. Both times I was ready to go and thought it was a super great day. I haven't had that in a while. 

It was nice to wake up and feel refreshed. Getting that "good morning, love" phone call on the way to work was nice too.

...it was a nice lazy day.

Sorry for the late posting, I rarely get an ACTUAL lazy day. One where I don't have to worry about doing anything at all. Now that the house is in order, I sit here going "now what?"

I've been in quite a whirlwind of doing things here at home that NOT having to do something seems foreign. Yes, there are things to do around here. But I don't have a bevy of dishes, or a whole house cleaning project to do at the moment.

The basement is next. I have vacation this week, so I am probably going to tackle that next. Get a lot of things out of there and to the alley for pickup. A lot of junk is going to go away once again, but it's been down there for so long that I sit there and ask myself "why didn't I throw this away ages ago?"

And now it's time to go to sleep... in bed with my lady.

...I didn't have to go to sleep by myself.

Normally, I let her know when I get home so she knows I haven't died on the freeway. I forgot to do that today, and my phone was still set to silent from earlier in the day. Well, at about 10:30 she decided that I must be dead on the freeway and drove down to make sure I wasn't getting my face eaten off by my cats or something. So, today is better because I don't have to sleep alone.