BarbWired

It’s 1:13 in the freakin morning, and for the second night in a row, I’m wide awake.  WTF?  Last night… or was it this morning?  Nooo, yesterday morning…. whatever.  Anyway, this one time, at band camp, I didn’t fall asleep till 4:00 AM.  And that was after getting up that morning at a very respectable time.  No, make that an obscene time.  Something like 6:30.  I got up to put Maggie out after she puked in my bedroom (blecccchhhh)  and stayed up.  AND I didn’t have a nap all day.  So wouldn’t you think that after being up for 18 hours, and after a couple of toddys, I’d have been snorin away by midnight or so?  Yeah – you would think.  But no, I laid in bed for an hour, wide awake.  Finally got up, popped in a tape of various stuff I’d recorded last week, and watched it all.  8 hours of tv.  (ok – technically not 8 hours, cuz it only took me 4 hours to watch, so obviously I skipped a little.  I also skipped commercials – duh)  The biggest shocker of all?  Greg (who knew I couldn’t sleep) didn’t give me one bit of shit about sleeping till noon today.  That’s unheard of around here people!  So here I am, wide awake again.  I've got to talk to the Dr. about this menopause shit. 

So this afternoon, I had a few errands to run before the weekly showdown weigh in.  I had a nice little (too short) visit with Mom, spread some more fescue in her yard, visited the back yard neighbor and her dogs, then headed on to Topeka.  I had to stop by AAA to pick up some tour books and maps.  Spring break is next week, and my sister and I are driving to New Mexico to visit Gerri, Brian and MY BOYS!!!!!  Can’t wait to see the little shits.  Oh, and btw – Aidan recently proved he is indeed a little shit – he rubbed his own all over himself, the walls, and I don’t know where else!  Glad I wasn’t there when THAT happened!  So where was I?  Oh yeah – so we’re leaving Friday when Jan gets out of school, spending the night in some little town outside of Oklahoma City (little more than half-way) then driving on in to Clovis NM the next morning.  If Clovis sounds a little familiar to you, there is a very good reason.  It’s been in the news the last few days, as the home of the lunatic who stole a newborn baby from a hospital in Lubbock TX.  Hey – it could be worse – right here in my little neck of the woods made national headlines a little over 2 years ago when a psycho bitch not only stole a baby – but she murdered the pregnant mom by cutting the baby from her womb.  Soooo sad, and unexplainable, and bizarre and whatever else you can think of.  The psycho actually lived right down the road, like less than a mile, from BFF Skipper.  She had newspeople from NY camped out in her yard, wanting to interview them on TV.  She gave a couple of phone interviews, but decided that was enough.  We can do without that kind of excitement.  I’m sure all the buzz on this latest kidnapping will have died down by the time we get to Clovis.  There’s always some bigger, more appalling story to move on to. 

We’ll be gone a week.  Heading out on Wednesday, and spending the night in OK City.  I wanna visit the National Memorial on Thursday morning, and then we’ll head for home.  I talked to Gerri tonight, and she is sooooo excited that we’re coming.  But I’m really worried about Greggy.  Whatever will he do with me gone for an entire week?????  What’s that?  Throw a party?  Probably.