Last night was one of those nights. Fall into bed. Climb out to let the cat out. Climb out again because we forgot to shut the study door (so if cat went in, alarm goes off). Fall asleep. Wake up because small boy has bad dream. Soothe small boy, pray, leave bathroom light on, fall asleep. Wake up because oven goes "clunk". Can't fall asleep so play 3 games of solitaire. Fall asleep. Wake up sweating - too hot! Get up and open windows. Climb back into bed and sink into serious sleep. Wake up to the soporific screeching of cat songs beneath my window. Lurch around bedroom to locate water pistol which is missing. Find a bottle of water. Throw water at cats (hit Cat 1), toss bottle at Cat 2 (bulls eye! so satisfying! Make mental note to cancel getting a second cat). Go back to bed. Fall asleep. Husband has interesting REM sleep and bounces the bed as he turns over. Start falling asleep and get buzzed by rabid mosquito. Wave hands helplessly to shoo it off. Glance enviously as slumbering husband and life partner. Wave hand again. Consider the mozzie machine. Pull blankets over head. Fall asleep. Beep beep beep. Time to get up. Amazing life partner turns off the beeping bleep bleep bleep and disappears into darkness. Fall asleep. Husband returns with cup of coffee and rusks... slowly emerge from Club Duvet. Yip. It's Tuesday!
And actually, I am writing this at the end of Tuesday. Tuesday was a great day. Now I am hoping (rather desperately) for a whole night's sleep. What are the odds?
(Angel is under threat of laundry, will check windows and doors, and waterpistol is fully loaded. Mozzie machine on. Can you tell I am trying to stack the odds?)
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