Exhaustion

Why is everyone so dang tired?  We all run around like chickens with our heads cut off.  Go here and go there and do this and do that.  The result is a bunch of caffeine addicted people acting like zombies from lack of sleep.  Thankfully I gave up caffeine in 2000, but sometimes it is very tempting to pick it up again.

I know I'm tired from working full time, working trying to get a business going, working at home trying to raise two very spirited kids on my own, working trying to run a household, working on myself, working trying to get my back better so I can do more work by working out.  I'm not the only one this boat.  It is a fact of life anymore. 

The other night I had a really weird dream.  I dreamt I was friends with 2 men.  I actually saw their faces in this dream.  They were both late 40's and were musicians.  I think they played the guitar and they performed around town.  They were supposed to perform this one time and I was going to go with them.  One of them got sick so it had to be cancelled.  The other one then asked me out on a date.  I said sure.  Then he said, :Let's take a nap first."  So I sat down by him on the couch in this foyer of some building and we took a nap.  Now to take a nap with some guy in a dream I'm having while I'm sleeping...that must be exhaustion!!

Since we live in the desert, we have all kinds of weird creepy crawly bugs.  The creepiest is the scorpion.  I have never liked them, but since hearing from a friend what it's like to be stung by one, I really don't like them.  And yet, we seem to have an issue with them.  So every morning I shake out my shoes hoping I don't find anything.  This morning I was so tired that I forgot to shake them out.  I was wearing socks and I stuck my foot in my shoe.  Yep, this one morning I don't shake out my shoe I feel something.  Of course I freak out and rip my shoe off.  I shake it out and out falls a penny.  Boy did I feel silly!

At church on Sunday we talked about how dangerous it can be to sit idle.  Now that doesn't mean we need to be frantic in our lives.  If we are frantic then we aren't really accomplishing anything.  However, I refuse to feel guilty for the times that I do sit down and be idle.  They aren't very often and I'm damn tired!  Yes, I could probably occupy my mind with better things than what I do.  I will admit that.  But, I am not going to feel guilty for resting once in a while.  I am however, going to work on trying to be more efficient with my time.  That is going to be the hard part!  For now, I think I will take a nap...yawn.