In Search of a Good Night's Sleep

Ok, I'll warn you right now that this post is going to have nothing to do with crafting, gardening or small town life. It's strictly a "woe is me" pity party. But, I figure there's folks who can relate.

I better start out by telling you that Monday night at work I set a box down and threw out my lower back. Did that towards the beginning of my shift. It was a long painful six hours before I got to go home. Needless to say it took a lot of Tylenol to get to sleep Monday night.

So, last night, Tuesday, I take a book to bed at a decent hour, thinking I'll read for a little bit and then get a decent nights sleep. I had finished my last book "Plainsong" which I highly recommend, but this one isn't as interesting to me so I knew I'd put it down and actually sleep. Hubby came in about ten and said goodnight. He said he'd turn my light off when I fell asleep. What a sweetheart I've got. Well, he fell asleep with the television blaring in the living room. I fell asleep shortly after he told me goodnight, and was sleeping like a rock when he woke up and shut the tv off.

The sudden lack of sound woke me up. The cheese puffs I'd eaten before I went to bed were sort of giving me indigestion so I got up and got a drink of water. Went back to bed and my back was hurting, a lot. It's hard enough to sleep on a good night on my ratty old mattress. My hips are wider (considerably wider) than the rest of me, so when I roll over on my side, it throws my back all out of alignment. So, I had a tussle with the pillows, arranging them this way and that till I finally got to a place that would work.

That's when the thunder and lightening started. So, I'm enjoying the lightening show. My bedroom has windows on the south, west, and north sides, so I get the full effect of storms. I was dozing off when the first rain drops hit the window. That jolted me wide awake again because I knew I had to go put the bucket under the drip in the bathroom. (See previous post on bathroom renovation).

By now it's about one o'clock and I've had about an hours worth of sleep. I did finally doze off. Woke up later trapped between my pillows, tossed and turned some more and fell asleep again. That was ok till the wind picked up about four.

There was more thunder, lightening and rain, but mostly the sort of noisy wind that rattles the windows and howls around the corners. The kind of wind that keeps me awake. By this time I had tossed and turned until I was wrapped in my sheet like some sort of flannel mummy. I picked up my pillows and waddled with my sheet and all into hubby's bedroom. Due to his chronic, continuous terrible back pain, he has an air mattress. Most of the time it gives me a back ache, but I thought since I had a back ache already, maybe it would be comfy. And his room is on the opposite side of the house from the wind.

Yep, the air mattress was comfy and the man wasn't even snoring for once. But....... his bed sits in addition number two to this house (the addition that was rather shoddily built). Although I could hear the wind buffeting the windows, I could hear all the creaking and popping that goes on in the attic when the wind blows. And there was a strong breeze coming from the ceiling fan.

This time I dragged sheet and pillows to the sofa. If all else fails, the sofa is always comfy, that's why I bought it. Beat the pillows into submission again. I'd just gotten comfy when the man decides it's time for him to get up! He always sits and watches tv for a little while before he goes to work. So, he sent me into his room. By this time the wind has really worked itself into blowing and it's howling around the window air conditioner. Of course all this traipsing around the house and flopping here and there has done nothing to help my spasming back.

The man finally left for work at five, so I parked myself in his recliner, opened the drapes, turned the tv to a music channel, and prepared to watch whatever sunrise we were going to have with all the storm clouds drifting off.

Ha! Didn't see a bit of the sunrise. I stretched out in that recliner, the pressure was off my hip, and I was out like a light for three hours. It was broad daylight when I woke up. We'd had .32" of rain, the clouds were gone and the wind was gone.

Needless to say, I went to see my chiropractor today, because I am NOT going to spend another ngiht like that!