Last night, we had major storm warnings and watches all over this area. Normally I don't worry too much about storms. They don't scare me. In fact, I kind of like them. (Except those thunder BOOMS that wake you out of a dead sleep as if Thor had smashed the house with Mjölnir.) But, I am going to admit, here and now, that I let the warnings get to me.
I couldn't settle. I tried reading (which is a nightly routine that helps me fall asleep, just as hubby's is to find an old black & white documentary) but that didn't work; I couldn't concentrate on what I was reading and kept being interrupted by the lightning and thunder. (I'm telling you, Thor was in a tizzy about something last night.) I got up to get something to drink (grapefruit juice and ginger ale, yum), I stood looking out the kitchen window for a while and watched the activity in the sky, I checked on the kids multiple times, I gathered stuff for the utility room just in case we had to take shelter, I found a pitiful candle and a lighter, I found a flashlight...
I finally crawled back into bed (it's now about 1AM and waaay past my bedtime) and turned on the radio to the talk station I like, knowing they'd have emergency weather-related break-ins to regular programming, and I lay there and listened. I listened to the sounds of the guys on the radio, if not really what they were talking about (it was just noise) but what I really listening for is the emergency broadcast system beeps - we all know what they sound like. And all the ones I heard had the storms just to the south of us. So all the storm activity I was seeing and hearing was, apparently, pitiful when compared to what the counties to the south of mine were seeing.
I don't know, exactly, what time I drifted off, but it was probably close to 2:30 am. Needless to say, I am tired today. I know that there are going to be a lot of other really tired people around today, too, so I need to be sensitive to that and not selfishly hanging on to my own exhaustion. There will be no time to nap, though. I have a 4:30 pm meeting at the church tonight, and another one at 6:00 pm; I'll be there until 7:30 or 8:00 tonight. And then, as if that's not enough, we're expected to get another round of heavy storms tonight; so more not sleeping.
TTFN
JMS
I couldn't settle. I tried reading (which is a nightly routine that helps me fall asleep, just as hubby's is to find an old black & white documentary) but that didn't work; I couldn't concentrate on what I was reading and kept being interrupted by the lightning and thunder. (I'm telling you, Thor was in a tizzy about something last night.) I got up to get something to drink (grapefruit juice and ginger ale, yum), I stood looking out the kitchen window for a while and watched the activity in the sky, I checked on the kids multiple times, I gathered stuff for the utility room just in case we had to take shelter, I found a pitiful candle and a lighter, I found a flashlight...
I finally crawled back into bed (it's now about 1AM and waaay past my bedtime) and turned on the radio to the talk station I like, knowing they'd have emergency weather-related break-ins to regular programming, and I lay there and listened. I listened to the sounds of the guys on the radio, if not really what they were talking about (it was just noise) but what I really listening for is the emergency broadcast system beeps - we all know what they sound like. And all the ones I heard had the storms just to the south of us. So all the storm activity I was seeing and hearing was, apparently, pitiful when compared to what the counties to the south of mine were seeing.
I don't know, exactly, what time I drifted off, but it was probably close to 2:30 am. Needless to say, I am tired today. I know that there are going to be a lot of other really tired people around today, too, so I need to be sensitive to that and not selfishly hanging on to my own exhaustion. There will be no time to nap, though. I have a 4:30 pm meeting at the church tonight, and another one at 6:00 pm; I'll be there until 7:30 or 8:00 tonight. And then, as if that's not enough, we're expected to get another round of heavy storms tonight; so more not sleeping.
TTFN
JMS
