Thursday, October 8, 2009

Insomnia... chapter 1

It's 4:30 on a Thursday morning and I am awake... not half asleep. Totally and utterly awake. The dogs are now up and the coffee is on. The house is quiet. I think I woke up Adam. No idea why I am up this early, just am. It's interesting being awake before everyone else I know, especially this weekend. This is the most quiet I will get until Tuesday night.

Tonight the flood of family starts coming in for Adam's 40th birthday party this Saturday. First my Mom & Tom, followed by Adam's folks. Brothers and sisters and their children will follow shortly thereafter and Saturday is scheduled for a cookout at our house. It should be a lot of fun! The Univ of TN game starts at 12:30 Saturday afternoon and good friends are coming to watch it before the BBQ. Can you really call a cookout a BBQ if there are no ribs being cooked and nothing being smoked? Burgers and gluten free dogs are on the menu along with my famous (not really) potato salad, beer, drinks and birthday cake slated to celebrate Adam's 40th and my new Step-Dad's 70th.

It's always great to have family in town and this will be the first time everyone has come in together since our wedding 11 years ago. We are even boarding three of our craziest dogs so the house is a bit less hectic. The only family we have in GA is Cynthia, Lexxy's Mom and her Mom Adrienne, Carter (Lexxy's Step-Dad) and Leah her little Sister. We all have so much fun when we get together! It's great when out of town guests come to visit and it's great when they go so our home can return to normal. I am already cherishing next weekend when I will be able to lounge on the love seat and take naps as necessary.

The cleaners are coming today and I have organized my tupperware drawer in the hopes that my Mom won't feel the need to reorganize my cabinets. However I have neglected my pot & pan cabinet so I am assuming by Saturday afternoon it will be organized and everything will be in its place gratis of Mom. I guess I am not the only one looking for things to do when family arrives... Adam is now up (5am) and is doing laundry to free the bed in the guest room for Lexxy this weekend.

Part of what I like about getting up early is drinking my coffee, smoking a cig and watching the Today Show, however it's not on this early and in fact I see no other lights on in the subdivision, except ours. The traffic reporters are already reporting Atlanta commute traffic on TV and the dogs have all congregated in the living room for some reason... I hope our getting up this early doesn't perpetuate a cycle of them getting up at 4 tomorrow morning... Good Lord I need to sleep decently one of these days!

2 comments:

  1. Guess what? I am up with you :) Happy Birthday to your husband and stepfather. Give a big hug to your mom for me please.

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  2. do i need to make a quick run to your house before you mom gets there and clean out the pots and pans? i'm telling lexxy she is not allowed to clean out your p&p cabinet. that needs to be reserved for our house! i'm still waiting! and that tupperware cabinet? holy mother of plastic - those thing breed in the darkness, multiply themselves, then become carniverous of each other as one can only find some lids or some containers but none of them match.
    kudos to you for doing all that.

    see you on saturday! go vols!
    i love you as my sister!!!

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