It’s just been one of those days.  You know those days where you don’t feel like doing anything productive?  Where you just want to be home taking a nap or reading a book or just being a couch potato in front of the TV?  That’s me today.

Yesterday I was tired because as usual I messed up my sleep pattern over the weekend.  I got off work early on Friday and went home and took a nap.  And then I also took a nap on Saturday.  And then Sunday morning I slept until 10:00 am.  So, of course, when I tried to get to sleep Sunday evening I just laid there and tossed and turned.  I finally got back up and turned on the light and planned out the details of a potential Christmas Tea at my house in December.  So it was probably after midnight before I finally got to sleep.

And then of course I slept through my alarm Monday morning and woke up at 7:30 am to my brother banging on my bedroom door.  The funny thing is that my orange cat Hagrid alerted my brother that there was something wrong downstairs.  He meowed incessantly and jumped on and off my brother’s bed until my brother got up and went downstairs to check things out.  I’ll have to start calling Hagrid “Lassie”. 

So I managed to get ready for work in 15 minutes (sponge bath – no makeup – glasses – hair up in a twist).  And then spent the rest of the day tired as I mentioned above.  Somehow I managed to talk myself into working out yesterday evening (I think it was guilt because I had not been to the gym in three weeks).  So I went and exercised on the EFX machine for 30 machines.  You know how all those health professionals tell you that to have more energy, you need to work out?  Even when you are too tired to work out?  Guess what?  They are right!!!  I had so much energy last night that I went food shopping for the writing retreat this weekend and then came home and got the food all organized in bags and then started working on my writing prompts for my writing exercise this weekend.  Unfortunately I had SO much energy that I couldn’t get to sleep.  So after tossing and turning again, I got up and started reading parts of Stephen King’s Danse Macabre which is what I’m using for my writing exercise this weekend.  This time it was almost 1:00 am before I got to sleep.  So guess what?  I’m tired again today.  Sigh….

I’ve been flirting all week with a sore throat, so I think I’ll just go home tonight (after my doctor’s appointment) and load up on Vitamin C and hit the sack.  I don’t want to come down sick right before the retreat.

I do want to share a great line from Stephen King’s book.  Danse Macabre was written by SK in the early 80’s, and it is his take on the horror genre from the years 1950-1980.  He addresses TV, radio and novels.  It’s one of my favorite SK books.  Anyway, in one part of the book he is talking about one of the archetypes of horror writing – the vampire.  He says that “according to popular legend, vampires are able to control lesser animals such as mice and rats (and possibly Republicans)”.  That line cracks me up every time.