My First ever Blog

After seeing how much enjoyment Donald and Lisa get from their blogging, I have decided to start my own blog. I decided last night to start one and I think Lisa's even more excited than I am.

The first thing I will write about is the weird night I had last night.

Now I am not a very talented sleeper. I usually get to sleep semi OK but then I wake up and am not able to get back to sleep. Usually for hours. It was truly horrible. My Husband, GEEZ, he can fall asleep in minutes stay asleep and wake up feeling refreshed. In fact a bad night for him is waking up. That's it, just waking up! He goes right back to sleep in less than a minute usually, but to him, that 30 seconds of consciousness means a bad night sleep.

Well, a few months ago I visited my Doctor for probably the fourth time in a year and a half, pleading for some help with my lack of sleeping prowess and she started me on Welbutrin. After a couple weeks I really started sleeping much better. It has been wonderful.

Last night after deciding to start a blog I woke up and instead of going right back to sleep I started thinking of what I wanted to write my first blog about. I couldn't believe I was staying awake thinking about something so silly. I was drifting in and out of sleep and after a couple of hours I realized I had a song running through my head. I should mention that this happens to me quite often when I can't get back to sleep. Now it's usually a song that I really like and that's why it's there in my head, annoying but not too torturous.

So last night was definitely a first for me . I realized after about an hour of it playing in my head that the song intruding on my consciousness was none other than the song " If you sit on my lap today the gift of a toy is the price you pay". That's right, that horrible song from that horrible Bankin Rass Christmas special "Here comes Santa Claus" I hate that show. I hate that song. And I have absolutely NO IDEA how that song got in my head!

After I realized what I was thinking I tried my hardest to stop thinking about it, but of course I couldn't. Even worse was the fact that I don't even know most the words to that idiotic song, so that one line " If you sit on my lap today etc." kept going over and over in my head. Every once in a while it would change to "Oh what a good girl. Oh what a good boy Blah blah blah blah blah all because of a toy" It was absolute TORTURE!!! It actually seems kind of funny to me now, but it sure as HELL wasn't at 4 in the morning. On top of all that I had to get up at 6:30 to shower and get dressed because I had to take my daughter Courtney to the Dentist early this morning so I couldn't even sleep in like I normally would after a bad night.

Well, to make what is turning into a pretty long story short { Are you still with me?} I finally sort of solved the problem myself. One of the songs that I quite frequently have in my head, "Honeymoon" by Everclear, a song that I really do love, came to the rescue and flushed that stupid Santa Claus song right out of there. I was finally able to get back to sleep for a little bit at least. I am hoping that this won't turn into a self perpetuating problem. You know you're afraid it will happen again so it does. I will try to keep a good thought and hopefully tonight will be better.