Well - that was a first!

I haven't been sleeping very well this past week - it's one of those things we all go through I guess. I've been taking ages to drop off to sleep, and then once I am asleep - keep waking up, tossing and turning... getting grumpier by the second, punching the pillow, trying to make it comfortable, sighing loudly as I throw myself onto my side... I'm sure you've all been there.
 
I'm usually great at getting up in the morning, no fumbling for the alarm clock or bleary eyed panicking from me.

I actually don't NEED the alarm usually, but I still make sure it's set every night - just in case - and then turn it off a couple of minutes before it's due to go off as I get out of bed to go the bathroom.

This morning, I was super grumpy at not getting back off to sleep properly after Dave getting up for work at 04:45. So at 06:30, I decided to turn the alarm off and get up.

And then thought "bugger it - that's 30 minutes earlier than I usually get up, I may JUST be able to get a nap"... and I turned the alarm back on, and snuggled down and tried to get back off to sleep.

Instead of being woken up at 07:00 by the annoying tones of Sarah Kennedy on Radio 2, I was woken up by the annoying tones of my dogs whining outside the bedroom door at 07:35!

Gah!

I'd switched Dave's alarm back on instead of my own, and had overslept by 35 minutes.

Jumped out of bed, ran round the house half dressed, tried to find my shoes (Jasper had hidden one of them), nearly throttled the dogs trying to get their leads on - drove to the park, RAN round the circuit with the dogs - back in the car, home, fed the dogs, got my bag, dived back into the car - and got into work with two minutes to spare.

Phew!

Dave had an even worse morning than me. He left the house at 05:00, on his mountain bike, and his chain came off half way down the St. Helens canal tow path.

He was only about a third of his way to work. He had no tools with him - so had to throw his bike on his back and run the 5 miles back home to get his car. I didn't even hear him coming in as I sleep with ear plugs in - but I did hear the dogs barking, which made me even more grumpy.
 
I'm sure that this has done my high blood pressure a WORLD of good.