Lacking Necessary Sleep

The weekend went fast. It was already Monday and time to return to work. I slept as late as humanly possible. It was almost 6am when I finally rolled out of bed. But even after the extra sleep I was still tired. Could easily have slept a couple more hours. Because I failed to reset the timer on the irrigation system after Friday’s power outage, it was running an hour behind, or the length of the power outage. I let it finish before even thinking about taking Frankie out. Speaking of Frankie. She seemed as sluggish as me. She remained sleeping in the pen even after I completed my exercise and coffee. She was draggin’ ass, too. When we finally got around to going out back she took care of her business in a hurry. I complete the rest of my pre-run routine then suited up for another four miles. It was a gorgeous morning with the temperature perhaps a notch cooler than the day before. It was somewhere near 65. After my run I took the extra few minutes necessary to prepare an omelet. It was mighty tasty. With the pug and coffee in hand, I headed up to wake Mindy around 750am. She chose to remain in bed after my shower citing the need for more sleep. I was still kind of tired too. Needing to take the boat back to storage on my way to work, I planned to drive the Trooper. But both it and the boat needed gas, so I thought I'd head to the Silver Horn Kroger first. There I thought I'd save $.50 per gallon with my fuel perks rewards. I felt foolish when my Kroger card netted me just a $.10 per gallon savings, especially given that their price was already $.06 higher than Thornton's. I drove all that way and lost valuable time to save $.04 per gallon. Live and learn! I didn't get the boat to storage until 845am. Not that anybody was counting, but I ended up being 30 minutes late for work. Work was moderately busy, still quite a bit of fallout/carry over from the weekend on call to deal with. I ate my lunch at my desk but skipped a formal lunch break. I talked with Mindy who said we'd be having leftovers for dinner. I was OK with that. Unless I'm mistaken, she and the kids went to the pool for a couple hours taking Emily and Evan along too. I left work shortly after 530pm for home. It was one of those days when I felt extremely sensitive to clutter. The house seemed in disarray, and certainly much more so than usual. I found it difficult to relax and even complained about it a little. Mindy shut me down pretty quickly, however. Everybody had something different for dinner. I chose leftover fried chicken and mashed potatoes. It was good, but I wasn't all that hungry. I was anxious to clean-up the kitchen and start removing counter clutter. I dealt with my own stuff first. After cleaning up the kitchen, I headed for the PC to check email. I became really tired in an instant. Actually, though, I had been tired all day. It just poured over me even more so that instant. Not to be denied, I plopped face down on the livingroom floor for a nap. I'll bet I slept there for at least an hour, moving to the sofa next where I slept until 930pm or so. I can't recall if I woke there on my own or if Mindy woke me woke me, either way, I made a beeline for bed.