Kid, Go the #@$#@$ to Sleep

Unless you are the most unplugged in person in the world (or my parents) you have heard of Adam Mansbach instant classic “Go the @#$@#$ to Sleep” . I figure that by the time it gets to Samuel L Jackson’s lips that everybody in the free world has read it. Surely they’ve read it to the kids in Day Care.

This is why I’m mystified at my son’s instance on waking up for the last two mornings at 430am. There have been pleanty of times in the 6 or 7 months that he’s woken up in the middle of the night, let out a whimper and then fallen right back to sleep. Not these last two. Nope. 4:30, comes around and there’s the video monitor flickering on and the audio meter topping off in the “red” zone with piercing screams of “I’m awake mother$%$%, now deal with me!”

Here’s the other catch. Normally my alarm goes off at 430am so I can drag my fat ass out of bed and hit the gym or go for a run. But this was a long weekend that culminated with my toes getting some serious blisters after running a half marathon in my Vibrims, so I’m on a break until tomorrow.

Now I have to get out of bed, go across the hall, get the kid, bring him back to our room, hand him off to the wife, and then run down and get a bottle. Nothing like mixing formula in the dark.

Since I’m not working out I want to go to sleep for another hour or so until I have to go get ready for work. Well the kid again is not getting this concept and proceeds to kick me in the hand or chest as he’s gulping down his bottle. I secretly think it’s payback for all the “nice” things I’ve said about him both before and after birth.

Tonight kid, go (and stay) the @#@#$ to sleep!

Things That Make You Go "hummmm"

That is besides the career of the great C&C Music Factory.

The first is a comment I received the other day from "Anonymous" on my thoughts involving Chinese food freshness. This reader thought so much of the entry that they had to respond and share their thoughts.

"fvck u"

I always welcome your comment as readers and I never erase any comments and will continue that stance here. This idiot's comment will stand for the whole world to read. Yes, not only is he a dope, but he can't spell either (I know I have several spelling errors on the site but at least I try to go back and correct them and I've never spelled an F-bomb incorrectly!) So kudos to you my friend and I hope all your Chinese leftovers go bad!

The second item on my agenda today is sleeping in on weekends and holidays and how things change as we get older and more responsibilities pile up. Have you ever noticed that when we were younger (especially in and around the collegiate years) you could sleep in on a weekend until 10am, 11am, or even 12 noon with not a care in the world? Now as you age you're getting up earlier and earlier with errands to run, places to be, etc? This morning, while not a day off (I worked from home), I got to sleep in well past my usual alarm time of 530am but even so I was up every 10 minutes worrying that I was going to over sleep. What's that about? I would love to have a morning where I just sleep in and in and in. Maybe I'll get up at 12noon or even 1pm on a Sunday, just in time for the football games. Oh what the hell, maybe I'll just sleep the entire day away and have breakfast for dinner. Yep, that's the ticket.