Eyes Wide Open

And I mean that quite literally. It is 3:44 a.m. on Tuesday morning.

Owen continued his never-ending assault on my sleep tonight. He was up at 2am. He has come down with a cold, and earlier on Monday developed a slight fever. Fine. I can handle that. He had some water, a little bottle and back to sleep. Me? Not so lucky. I was awake long enough for all the thoughts running thru my mind to keep me awake.
Among these earth shattering thoughts? Let me give you a sample:
1. John needs to mail out a package we have had since OCTOBER to our friend in Wyoming (It is an Xmas present for his son).
2. I need to call my primary for a referral to take care of my right elbow/arm pain.
3. I need to mail my new patient questionnaire to facility I am being referrred to for above.
4. I need to do Food shopping.
5. How am I going to physically make it thru work tomorrow night until 9:30pm?
6. How do I verbalize, in a politically correct way, to the lawyer and his client that she needs a monstrous bitch slap?
7. I need to get more tampons&pads tomorrow because this period is out of control.
8. And Motrin due to above.
9. I have to get to my second job at some point this week to get some hours in.
10. We need to pay the mortgage.
11. Damn this house is cold at this time of night.

SO, that would be a glimpse into my gray matter. Nothing earth shattering, but enough to get my brain whizzing around. *sigh*.

Insomnia has never been a problem for me. I used to get it maybe once or twice a year, and that was it. But this? Ugh. I have had it now 3 nights in the past week. It is not like I can take a sleeping pill because of Owen. Amazingly, John NEVER hears him crying. Isn't that just the darndest thing? The baby monitor is literally on our headboard between the 2 of us and he NEVER hears it!! I guess I can add that to this list of Things Keeping me Awake. It is so frustrating. Why am I the only one to get up with him? Just once I would like him to beat me to the punch. Even if I end up awake, at least I know he would get the baby and address whatever he needs. But no. He snores soundly thru it.

Well, it is now 4am. Will have a glass of water and try to lay back down. Try to salvage some part of sleep this evening.