So much for a "Normal Sleep Pattern" and grooving with a shark!

I wasn't really going to post today... I really don't have much in the way of valuable brain power right now. "Why?" you may ask... or not. Actually, I am thinking more in the "not" catagory because I don't think anyone has read this blog (through no fault of their own, I don't broadcast when I post a new blog anywhere).

Anyways, I was just reading through one of my previous posts, I think lamenting about the ending of last quarter, but feeling okay about it because I would be getting back to a "normal sleep pattern". Yeaaaaaaah... about that...

On Easter Sunday, I had to work from 8AM to 4PM, which I didn't mind, since I don't observe religious holidays, or religion for that matter, except Thanksgiving and Christmas (one of these things is not like the other :) ). I got home around 5ish, and my Mother In Law (henseforth known as MIL), her husband Dennis and my Father In Law (also henseforth known as FIL, not to be confused with PHil) were at the house wrapping up making plans for Tuesday's celebration of FIL's birthday. FIL left, and my daughter was begging for a bath (who would have throught a 3 year old would BEG for a bath?), and MIL and Dennis graciously took her back to their place so she should have a bath, and my wife and I could take a "nap". At 5:30. In the PM.

Next thing I know, it's around 9 or so, when my daughter and wife come into the room, and we have a brief family "say goodnight to your freshly clean and non sugar fueled daughter before she goes to bed" moment, and was asked if I was getting up, or staying in bed. At this time, my eye lids felt like their feet had been dipped in cement and dropped off a bridge, so I said "I'm staying in bed." My wife, in her wisdom, said "Great, that means you'll be up at 6AM", which I denied... and in fact, I was correct... I was up at 7AM Monday morning.

So I woke up, ate some cereal, checked facebook, and planted myself on the couch for a few hours of uninterrupted XBox playing. All was good that morning, the sun was shining, my daughter woke up and ate half her breakfast, and I was feeling good. Then after a while, my wife, who had been sleeping in which she deserved, woke up and got ready for her doctor's appointment. I looked at the clock and it was about 1:30 or so, and her appointment was at 2:30. So I assumed she'd be back at around 3:30, and would be able to take a couple of hours nap before my first class of the quarter. Yeaaaaaaaaah... about that.

She wasn't home at 4:15 when MIL called and I told her what was going on, and she (again, graciously) volunteered to come over and watch the kid while I took a nap, but at that point was too late, because I would have only gotten about 45 minutes of sleep, and that would do me nooooo good. She came over anyways, and my wife came home around 4:45. I decided to hit the pillows for 20 minutes just to wind down a little, and got up and went to class.

After class, I got back about 7:45 and instead of taking a nap, decided to cook dinner and make lunch for myself, and then went to work. Suprisingly, I made it through my shift pretty unscathed, left and went to my 8AM class. Once again, suprisingly was awake through the whole thing. Got home at 10:20, was up for 20 minutes, and promptly passed out at 10:45. All in all, I had been awake for 28 straight hours, and as a result, I missed the entire FIL birthday celebration, which I feel absolutely horrible about, despite everyone saying "they understood". So I think I am going to have to take him out for lunch this weekend to make up for it. So much for a "normal sleep pattern". This will be corrected immediately by human resources. !:

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There is a blog I have recently discovered by doing random blog searches to find someone who blogs who is actually.... I don't know... INTERESTING. From their blog, found out about http://www.grooveshark.com/, which is pretty much an online jukebox, plays almost any song you want, on demand... pretty groovin. At work streaming "Twilight Zone" by Golden Earring.. And I'd like to thank The Eagles for their live version of "Hotel California" that I was playing while typing the above part of the blog.