9:48 a.m. - Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2004
Sleepless In Tennessee
We got a little bit of snow yesterday. Not much. Just some flurries mostly. During the night around midnight, however, it stormed very badly, with thunder and lightning and I thought I might have to shut the computer down, but the lightning finally eased up. Then it turned to snow in the early morning hours. I didn't sleep much that night as usual lately. I was up early for the milk delivery as I am each Tuesday morning. Each night I tell myself that I'm going to get more rest and then I still end up being up late anyway.
Yesterday in email there was a post from D's father saying that D and his brother, T, had been in an automobile accident, but since they were wearing seat belts there were no major injuries. I am so glad for that! They were hit rear-ended as they sat at a light, D's father wrote. This was a first major accident for both of them. They were both shaken up but are physically fine. T's car, however, is a different story evidently. I'm glad they are both ok. I can't imagine life without D.
Also yesterday morning Federal Express tried to make a delivery and evidently I had managed to fall asleep at that time. I did manage to get a few hours of sleep after daylight. There was a flyer attached to the handle of the front door to notify me of Federal Express's attempt to make a delivery. The notice said they would try again tomorrow (today). I cannot, for the life of me, think of anything it might be. I'm not expecting anything. I don't know of an order I placed recently that hasn't already arrived. Hmmm....very curious indeed, but I'm sure when I open it up I will remember what I have forgotten about. Unless....It might be something from D. He has been saying that he was going to make a special recording of some of the groups songs. Maybe that's what it is. But it seems that if this were the case he would have told me that it was on the way. I will know for certain sometime today hopefully. At least there has been no new snow fall and what there was of it yesterday is now gone completely.
I'm about to have some company for awhile. A relative, L, is going to visit with me very soon. We are hoping this week, but they got a huge snow storm in Delaware and she may not be able to get out to come down here as soon as she had planned. She is bringing her three children, two teenagers and a first grader--and their cat, Luna. I was happy to find this out for I love animals and I don't have that much chance to be around them. So I am looking forward to Luna's visit with me, I think, more than the others. At this time while I'm not too well, it will be good to have L here to visit. She and her children will give me help and a break to rest up more while they are here. I'm looking forward to that also.
I've been trying to catch up on my reading the past couple of nights while I was feeling up to being active for awhile. I had lost so much track of the book I am reading on that I had to go back a few chapters and review. And I also downloaded the new Napster. I feel much better now that I can pay for the music I download. It's just a personal thing with me. I don't download that much music actually and most of what I do get are songs I heard on tv. I downloaded music from QAF. That program has some very good music. And I was surprised at Napster. On it I can download songs for $.99 each or download an entire album for $9.95 which is a lot cheaper than buying the album in a store. I downloaded the album of music for the first season. This is the first time I've used Napster since they changed. Wow! It was amazing the speed that the downloads took place. I love the new Napster!
I have also received the second season of QAF dvds and have pre-ordered the third season of QAF which will be released on February 25. Then I will be all caught up on the shows and ready for the fourth season to begin in April. By pre-ordering the series before it's released I saved about $30 so I think it was a good idea to do it this way.
I am still feeling sleepy this morning. I was surprised that I woke up when I did at 7:45 AM. I had taken a couple of sleeping pills last night since I haven't slept well without them over the past few nights. Seems like in order to sleep any at all I have to take the pills and then when I do I sleep more than I should. I am so messed up.
Yesterday my sister showed up on my doorstep unannounced. I tell people all the time to please call me on the phone before they come to visit. Don't just show up without lettting me know you're coming over. She forgot. I told her she was just lucky that I happened to be up and about when I was or I would have just ignored the knocking at the door as probably just a salesperson and stayed in bed. This past Saturday that very thing happened. I was napping because I hadn't slept well during the night and I was going in and out of short periods of sleepfulness and awakenings. And during an awake period someone knocked on my front door. It might have been one of the kids in the neighborhood, I thought or a salesperson, so I just moved around in the bed and stayed where I was. Finally whoever it was went away and I listened, hearing the sound of a car door shut, so I figured then it wasn't one of the kids. I never did find out who the visitor was. Too bad people don't listen to me, if it was someone I know.
I am waiting for the Fed Ex delivery person to show up. I signed the little door hanger notice left on my door yesterday. The notice advised that my signature on the card would allow Fed Ex to leave the package on my doorstep and that they would make another attempt on Wednesday (today). Hmmm....The time on the card denoting the first visit was at 8:37 AM, so I figured he/she would be here again around that time. Boy, was I wrong. It's nearly 9:30 AM and still no Fed Ex. This thing is driving me crazy. I hate waiting on things to happen. I'm also anxious to have this over and done with so I can lie back down. I'm still feeling the effects of the sleepin' pills in my system. Seems like lately my life is made up of tryin' to get to sleep, or sleepin' too much. I am beginnin' to envy those people who can go right to sleep when they lie down or those who can at least sleep all night without medication. The thought just now dawned on me that it might be that stupid bed I bought from Craftmatic for $4,000. I haven't had a good night of rest since I purchased it. But then again it is probably just me. Hmmm....I may, in a few moments, lie down on the sofa here in the living room and put an afghan over myself and go to sleep. The sofa is actually more comfortable than my bed anyhow. I can leave the front door open. If anyone knocks or opens the door to come inside it will awaken me.
Last night on tv I watched a program on one of the cable channels about dogs that were brought to a shelter somewhere (?), don't know where since I missed the first part of the program. I was channel surfing and this program caught my eye. The dogs were so cute and sweet looking, but they were animals who were trouble to place into homes because they were either too old or unfriendly from having had to fend for themselves.
One sweet looking dog would actually viciously attack a false hand if the hand was put into the dog's dish while he was eating seeming to try to take some of the food. The dog actually bit the false hand several times while snarling and growling. The dog had to be put to sleep because the people knew it wouldn't make a safe pet because of this. Poor little doggy. But if a child had tried to put his hand into the dog's dish think of the damage to the child that could have been done.
The owners of the shelter had tried for weeks to train the dog and try to help it know it wasn't being threatened, but in the end the dog would sit and lie down on order but would still bite anything that came near its food. I remember, as a child, being told never to bother our pets while they were eating. I never understood that until last night. See what kind of education cable tv can offer to those sitting up at midnight on a week night? Hahahaha!
