Here I sit...far from bright-eyed and busy-tailed (where did that expression come from, anyways?)I was up quite late last night. I've written before how I can't sleep very well when Marcus isn't home. I haven't been sleeping well period lately. Between the stress I'm under, my weight, our neighbors, the local wildlife, the dog and Marcus' alarm, I can't remember the last time I slept uninterrupted for more than 4 hours.
I took every precaution I could to get as much sleep as possible. I spent an hour trying to figure out how to turn off his darned alarm. He's got one of those cool Timex Atomic Time clocks that keeps in sync with the Atomic Clock in Boulder, I'm guessing. It's awesome after a power outage because it will be correct within a few seconds. The bad thing...you need a mechanical engineering degree to work the darned thing. I doubt the paper copy of the instructions that came with it still exist in our household. Marcus' position is that, "Instructions are for girls." Yeah, well, hello? I am one. A search on the Timex site produced nothing. I can only get instructions for the watches currently being sold, it seems. You think they'd archive the old ones somewhere. I finally found a guy on the internet that was as frustrated as I with the convoluted process of setting the alarm. Fortunately, he scanned the instructions and I printed them out. Yay!!! I decided to let the dog have free roam of the house so he wouldn't pant all night. I went to the bathroom so my bladder wouldn't wake me up.
All for naught. I woke up at about the same time Marcus' alarm would've gone off. Boooooo! I tried to go back to sleep. By then, the dog knew I had stirred and he wanted to go out. I GIVE UP!
Name: LaDonna
