It is a season for the giving of thanks. We should all take time to acknowledge the many blessings of friends, family, and, in general, the good in life.
I have spoken at some length about my family. They are truly wonderful and a source of much of my joy in life. Adding to that are my friends who enrich my life with perspective and the occasional knock-down-drag-out conversation ending with, “I can’t believe you are really that stubborn.” [Please note that absence of an admission of error in that statement.]
Acknowledging that I am truly blessed by the rich associations that I have, I wish to move on to a thing for which I am thankful.
Caffeine.
Ah, yes, my intrepid friend who helps me battle the urge to be idle. The magic molecule of twitch. My thoughts are drawn to you today as I have been experiencing a bit of the down side of she for whom I am most thankful.
My wife has had bronchitis since last Wednesday. In all seriousness, this truly sucks for her. She can go about 30-90 minutes without having a full on, “Hey, is that my spleen?”, coughing fit that lasts anywhere from 10 seconds to a couple of minutes. Very few things will disturb my slumber but when my wife is in pain, it wakes me right up.
In short, I haven’t been sleeping too much lately.
Forward to last night and between the jacked up sleep schedule that four days off of work with a sick wife gets you and taking the kids to school, I ended up with a little over three hours of chopped up sleep last night. Oh, and I HAD TO GO TO WORK!
“It’s OK,” I think, “I can take the Stay Awake I keep in my desk!”
Now, for those of you playing the home game, please pay careful attention to the box. Yes, campers, you read it right, 200mg. In the past, when I have taken this, I have needed to push myself after a good nights rest. Not, repeat, NOT after having just spent four days on the newborn sleep cycle concluded with a three hour romp for good measure.
Needless to say, I was, and remain, a bit loopy.
So, at approximately 1100, I downed the first tablet of twitch. At 1130, my arms began to tingle a bit and I could tell that it was really beginning to work when I couldn’t shut up between belching liquid inferno.
“Food! Must have food to quench the burning!”
For those of you having trouble keeping up, caffeine and sugar are a pretty good combination because the sugar is rapidly consumed by the twitching which brings the consumer, hereafter referred to as TttTwITCH, back down as there is no more energy to consume. Unfortunately for TttTwITCH’s coworkers, he has brought protein foods to work, ensuring a long-lasting low burn of calories so that the entire office may suffer at his hands.
LONGLIVECAFFEINE!
Not quite capable of putting these facts together, TttTwITCH decided that he was running out of juice around 1400 and had a meeting that he needed to be alert for.
Engage little-yellow-thunder the second.
It’s about ten to midnight now and I think I have managed to force two yawns since I came home at 1630. You see, at 1630, I felt like I was going to fall asleep standing up.
At 1730, I had dinner.
At 1745, TttTwITCH was back in the house.
That my wife resisted crushing my skull tonight is a tribute to her patience.
And that’s why I love her and am thankful for her above all other blessings.
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