Sleepless in.....Washington

Definitely having a pre menopause attack last night, call it hot flashes, call it night sweats. What ever it was, it came on like a bubbling volcano ready to errupt.

Before crawling into bed, I opened the window for some fresh air. The air outside was blowing like a banshee and it really felt refreshing as it swooped it's way into our bedroom. Shortly after I found my happy place, the husband snuggled in beside me. It was not a night for snuggling, I was having an inner body experience with massive amounts of heat burning within, the last thing I wanted to do was snuggle. My freezing husband, complaining about the wind blowing and not having enough covers, intertwined his legs with mine and wrapped my arm around him. OK, now I'm about ready to combust and burst into flames. I wiggled my way out of his grasp and shooed him to his side of the bed.

Just as I found my happy place again, the cat decided to knead her nest on top of my legs, all the while purring. Seriously, this can't be happening. I started to kick and thrash about, I did not need the cat sleeping on me, criminy we have a king size bed. I seriously felt like I was in the book, "The Napping House." We already have a small dog sleeping at the foot of our bed and two on the floor in their own beds.

Finally, everyone was settled and I was, once again, in my happy place. With the window open and the breeze coming through it was heaven, until a dog started barking. Wait, thats not any dog, thats my dog, the one that sleeps in the neighbors house! WHY ISN'T SHE IN THE NEIGHBORS HOUSE? Ahhhh, Missy stop barking, go to bed! But of course once I crawl under the sheets she starts in again, bark, bark, bark!! Hmmmm, maybe there is a reason she is barking. I decided to investigate, in the middle of the night mind you, but everything was still in place and nothing seemed amiss so, GO TO FREAKIN' BED MISSY!!

Instead of risking the rest of my precious sleep, I swallowed a Tylenol P.M. but as I was waiting for it to kick in, I could hear every slumbering thing in my room breathe. The husband was on the verge of snoring and the dogs and cats were breathing heavily. Everyone needs to stop breathing, NOW!! I am on the brink of a major melt down, literally! Then the husband broke into a snore and it was more than I could take, so I took my hand and rubbed it back and forth over his face to get him to stop. He sorta woke up and said, "whaaaat, whaaat is it?" You're snoring! "Well at least I have love in my heart." Yeah, well stop snoring.

I don't even know what time it was when the Tylenol took effect, but I finally fell asleep and the morning came way too soon.