An hour ago I mysteriously, and without warning, woke up and could not go back to sleep. It happens. And more often than I’d like. But usually when it happens I will eventually fall back to sleep if I stay nice and quiet and relaxed… and as long as I DO NOT look at the clock. (If I look at the clock, I am a goner. I will then stress about how many minutes of precious sleep I am losing and how oh, if I can just go back to sleep RIGHT NOW I can still get a good, solid 5 hours.)
So I stayed quiet and tried not to roll around so much and I only took one pee break (and I left the bathroom light off so the illumination would not alert my brain that anything fishy was going on). I was just getting a tiny inkling of hope of sleep when I heard it start. The rain. A sudden downpour hitting the roof. Pelting the windows. There were a few flashes of lightning. On any other night, this little storm would be a Godsend because a thunderstorm is the only time I ever truly sleep like a rock. But tonight is different. Tonight this sucks. We had our landscape curbing done today in preparation for grass on Wednesday. And the nice guy who did it told me specifically to keep water and kids off of it for 24 hours. Well, it has only been 15 hours. And now it’s getting pelted. And now there is no way I’m going back to sleep because I’m thinking of how horrible it’s going to look in the morning.
Oh yeah, and the black drain tubes that are hooked to the downspouts (that safely carry the water out and away from the house)… yeah, those are currently flung into the window wells so as not to touch the newly-done curbing. So there is a thunderstorm draining into the window wells.
*sigh* I’m up anyway. If the rain doesn’t slow I will go outside in the dark, trudge through the mud, and pull them out. Pictures of the potentially ruined curbing in the A.M…. the REAL A.M., not the still-dark-out A.M. Only idiots and security guards are awake in this kind of A.M.
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Oh Suz, what a pain (the non sleeping part AND the rain part). What ended up happening anyway? I hope that the 15 hours was enough time to dry the curb.
Comment by cassie — August 17, 2007 @ 11:54 am
Oh, I hope the landscaping curb is okay. Sadly, I was up at 3 a.m., too. I’m not much of a sleeper.
Comment by Leslie — August 17, 2007 @ 1:27 pm
@Cassie and Leslie- It looks fine. I think it faired ok. Zoe walked around it like a balance beam today and it didn’t fall apart… I think that’s a good sign.
Comment by admin — August 18, 2007 @ 7:30 pm