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I woke up…no..no..got up at 4am today.
“Well, Scott. Why in the world did you get up so early? I would have stayed in bed if I were you.”
I hear ya. But, see you wouldn’t have. Cause you would have been me, and me got up. I never did like that “if I were you” statement. Anyway, that’s not what this post is about so quit getting me sidetracked.
So I got up at 4am. Couldn’t sleep and I loathe laying in the bed looking at the back of my eyelids wondering to myself if I’m ever going to go back to sleep. Started my morning routine way early. Some of my normal RSS posts weren’t even posted yet. Yeah! I know! It was early.
So, I had coffee, caught up as much as I could on my feeds. Also caught up on comments that were left last night. And by 5:30, shoot, I was done. Kiki and Chloe (cats) were harassing me because they were hungry. It’s not my fault they ate all of their food last night. Well, they got to be pretty persistent. So, at 5:30am I went to Walmart. AT 5:30!! IN THE MORNING!! IT WAS STILL DARK!!
Needless to say, today has been a very long day. Just happened to be one of my busiest days this week. We are putting in a new manufacturing system for a company in a town close to here. I had to get the 2 terminal servers and the application server in today. Not a good day to have half of a brain. (Don’t start with the half a brain jokes, I’ve heard them)
I also noticed something extremely unusual about today. Brought back feelings of guilt and “oh no’s” from way back. See, today, I felt like I had a hangover. It felt as real as the rain that was falling from the sky.
“Scott…you been dri..”
No, silly. I haven’t. But I had the symptoms that I had when I was drinking. It was a bit scary to tell you the truth. Dizzy head. Horrible sleepless taste in my mouth. Half asleep. Eyes burning. Almost not even hungry.
YUCK! That’s exactly how I used to feel every single day of my life how horrible is that yuck! I gotta tell ya. I don’t miss it at all. I guess today was one of God’s little “Hey…remember when…” days for me. I got the point. I still think he has a sense of humor.
Have you ever had anything like that happen to you? I wonder if that really was God doing his thing.
Oh well. I’ll be going to bed way early tonight. I’m thinking….11:30PM at least 
SC
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God’s reminders: they happen. So does his sense of humor. Now, I don’t know if this is due to what I eat before going to bed or if it’s inspired, but sometimes I have dreams that remind me to be grateful for things I have, like my wife. And by dreams I mean nightmares where someone–like my wife–dies. It’s horrible, but I wake up and no lecture could have drilled the point more deeply into my brain.
Oktober, I kinda figured they happened. He’s bein doin this sorta thing to me for awhile, which is awesome I do believe. I tell folks this sorta thing and I wonder if they think I’m some kinda wacko. Oh well, I ain’t. Your right though, those dreams we have are really good wake-up calls, most of the time.
For years I would wake up around 4 in the morning, so I was definitely sleep deprived. I sympathize with your experience and hope it isn’t as chronic as mine was. I now get enough sleep and it feels like a miracle.
Jean Browman–Cheerful Monk’s last blog post..What I Learned From Plato’s Republic
Jean, I hope it’s not chronic either. I slept very good up until recently. I guess, some of it has to do with time change. I used to just wake up at 5 or 5:30 and feel refreshed. But now my clock is just all messed up I guess. I’m sure it’s a phase. If not, I hear they make something that I can take. Just hate to do that. But again, too many days like this and I’ll have to do something.
Thanks for dropping in. Missed having ya around this week.