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LOVED that you could have heard a pin drop on my blog last night! Chickens! I am sure there is a nice Hallmark card that is just right for this occasion: Telling your friend that, yes, indeed, she really is batshit crazy. Total blog silence except for my sister in law, Cherri. Ryan came home and I made him watch it and he thought it was pretty funny so I know that I am not totally nuts. And due to Cherri's comments, have figured it out:
Two Words: SLEEP DEPRIVATION. Never fell asleep the night before the previous post and the four days prior to that I had not slept for more than 2 hours a night. A couple of days I was able to fall asleep for a couple of hours during the day - but funky weird dreams and not always successful. I am going to blame a lack of sleep for being off kilter and, well I was going to say weird, but since I am weird all the time, how could you tell?
So after reading Cherri's comment and realizing - in my sleep deprived stupor - that the culprit was my sleep deprived stupor I made a gargantuan effort to get some sleep. Headed to bed at midnight after taking a sleeping pill. And when I say sleeping pill ... I mean SLEEPING PILL. I have a prescription for what my doctor calls 'horse tablets' (in fact for all I know it REALLY is ketamine ... kidding - it's not) which make Ambien, Valium, Sonata, etc look like baby aspirin.
At two in the morning I was having a mini panic attack since I was not falling asleep and I knew I really, really needed it. But that is a cycle I broke years ago - worrying about not falling asleep is not very helpful in falling asleep ... so it has been years since I have been panicked about it - until last night. So now I have fallen off the insomniacs wagon and need to find my way back to some sort of truce with my lack of sleep.
Drifted off about 2:30am and woke up at 4:00am.
And for me?
I call that a success.
LOVED that you could have heard a pin drop on my blog last night! Chickens! I am sure there is a nice Hallmark card that is just right for this occasion: Telling your friend that, yes, indeed, she really is batshit crazy. Total blog silence except for my sister in law, Cherri. Ryan came home and I made him watch it and he thought it was pretty funny so I know that I am not totally nuts. And due to Cherri's comments, have figured it out:
Two Words: SLEEP DEPRIVATION. Never fell asleep the night before the previous post and the four days prior to that I had not slept for more than 2 hours a night. A couple of days I was able to fall asleep for a couple of hours during the day - but funky weird dreams and not always successful. I am going to blame a lack of sleep for being off kilter and, well I was going to say weird, but since I am weird all the time, how could you tell?
So after reading Cherri's comment and realizing - in my sleep deprived stupor - that the culprit was my sleep deprived stupor I made a gargantuan effort to get some sleep. Headed to bed at midnight after taking a sleeping pill. And when I say sleeping pill ... I mean SLEEPING PILL. I have a prescription for what my doctor calls 'horse tablets' (in fact for all I know it REALLY is ketamine ... kidding - it's not) which make Ambien, Valium, Sonata, etc look like baby aspirin.
At two in the morning I was having a mini panic attack since I was not falling asleep and I knew I really, really needed it. But that is a cycle I broke years ago - worrying about not falling asleep is not very helpful in falling asleep ... so it has been years since I have been panicked about it - until last night. So now I have fallen off the insomniacs wagon and need to find my way back to some sort of truce with my lack of sleep.
Drifted off about 2:30am and woke up at 4:00am.
And for me?
I call that a success.
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AND ... In honor of animal videos and people (like me) with waaay too much time on their hands, I bring you:
Extreme Shepherding (an absolutely fantastic video and no laughing on my part):
Ok, I did find one thing extremely funny: the: "The Baaah-Studs Presents" part. Say 'baaah studs' out loud and you have a spot on English accent pronounciation for 'bastards' ... very clever!
Maybe I needed more than 1 1/2 hours of sleep last night ...
I'm sorry you are sleep deprived. I hope you are able to sleep soon.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, if your sleep deprivation causes you to discover amazing videos like this one, well, maybe it's worth it - to your readers anyway!
Who knew shepherds were so tech savvy?
I showed the video to the boys last night. They were amazed. Jeffrey said it may have "changed his life"!
ReplyDeleteIt IS cool isn't it? I have a feeling no one else has watched it because it is so worth commenting about!
ReplyDeleteI just want to get my blog and yell 'WATCH THE VIDEO'! But there is that insanity thing hanging over my head so I am trying to keep a low profile!
RAWHIDE! Oh man--that was awesome. I finally had a chance to watch. I seriously need to train my dogs.
ReplyDeleteI am still waiting for it to download. It's been ten minutes already, so it may not be coming. I need a good laugh, so I'm crossing my fingers...
ReplyDeleteVicki - I hope you get it to download - on my computer it is immediate. This is the fantastic one, not the one that I thought was hysterically funny. And now that I am a wee bit more sane - still think it is hysterical that a cat will just wander a house with a bag on it's head! I so want a pet like that!
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