THE DAILY DIVERSION

Okay, so I've heard that you're supposed to learn something new everyday, right? Well, I got my lesson late last night, or early this morning. It just depends on how you look at it. The lesson is this...

If you go to bed at 8:30, but don't immediately make yourself go to sleep, then you deserve to get a shitty night's sleep.

Adrianne and I went out to eat at Texas de Brazil for the first time ever last night. We went really, really early, only because that's when our 50% coupon would work, so, therefore, we were back home, stuffed, very early. I think we were home before 6:30.

Eating at TdB is kind of like Thanksgiving. You know you've eaten too much and you're going to be tired afterward, but for some strange reason you keep eating. I couldn't imagine trying to drive home after eating there! I'm sure I would've fallen asleep at the wheel. Luckily I don't fall asleep too often while walking. However, it was a miserable walk back home!

We got home and Adrianne wanted to work on something for her classroom, so I played some Xbox. By the time 7:30 rolled around both of us were struggling to keep our eyes open. I stayed on the couch as long as possible, but couldn't fight it any more by 8:30. So, I grabbed a movie and we headed to bed. I popped "The Bourne Identity" into the DVD player and fired it up. Adrianne lost consciousness about half-way through, and I battled on. I made it nearly to the end when I told myself "Enough is enough!"

It was just before 10 pm when I rolled over, and from then until 5:30 this morning it was a nonstop exercise in sleep futility. I couldn't get comfortable. If I got comfortable then I couldn't breathe. Once I got comfortable and could breathe, then I had to pee. So, you see how this is going, right?

By the time the alarm went off this morning I was completely exhausted. All around my mouth was covered with a nasty white film, which means when I did sleep, I was breathing through my mouth, which is not a good thing! I finally rolled out of bed at 7:44, and ended up at least 15 minutes late to work.

Man, I hope the day gets better than it started!