Rude awakening...

I'm a very very VERY light sleeper. On top of that I have fibromyalgia which affects my sleep even more, so for me 4-5 hours straight sleep is a miracle. I wake up at LEAST 15-20 times a night either from the neighbors porch light shining through every crack in the blinds onto the ceiling above the bed, Randy snoring, any sound out of the ordinary for the middle of the night, or somebody dropped a pin on the floor across the street. That pin thing was an exaggeration, but you get the idea. LOL Typical for FMS, I get my best sleep in the morning hours. For me, 4-7 is my most restful sleep, if I'm still asleep during that time of the morning, that is.


This week my stepson and his buddy are in the area for a week of hunting. Randy has met up with them several times, usually leaving by 5:30-6:00 a.m. so I've been sleeping great after he leaves. Yesterday, I'd had a pretty good sleep the night before--almost a straight 3 hours--when suddenly the SMOKE ALARM goes off!!!!! Still half alseep, I fly out of bed and into my pajama pants and go to the door. No smell of smoke, no sound of flame, no heat on the door....... then it starts that annoying beeping. The stupid battery was going out. I'm stumbling through the dark hallway with my hand over my eyes trying to keep from waking up but still able to fumble around and get a new battery from my stash when Randy comes in and scares the crap outta me. I thought he had left!! I give him the battery and go back to bed. It's about 5:30 now.


I think, oh great, now I'll be awake just waiting for him to leave so I can relax enough to go back to sleep for another hour or so. I baaaaaarely fall asleep when the sound of Christopher's rumbling old farm truck pulls up in front of the house. (Our bedroom faces the street so the truck is right outside the window.) It's now 5:46. So I lay there awake--again--trying to relax enough to sleep and waiting for them to leave. I hear them chattering in the driveway on the way to the shop, then they come in for coffee, then they plant themselves in the kitchen and gab about this area and that one they'll try today, blah blah blah, no hurry up and leave involved at all. Ugh. Eventually (probably all of 10 minutes, but you know how it seems when you're still in that not quite fully awake state and wanting to find the sleep state???) they leave and I finally got that last hour of sleep, but dang, what a way to wake up!!!

God bless the smoke alarm. At least now I know it still works. ;)