All-nighter

I don’t know about any of you – but my desire to stay up all night left about when I finished school with all the accompanying last minute studying for exams. Add to that those legitimate travel times when you don’t have a choice and that pretty much is it. I certainly don’t plan on being up without it being a necessity – repeat instances of travel or some family emergency.

I certainly don’t plan on some stupid medication keeping me up all night. But then, I should have known better. (Queue – remember you are talking to an “getting older” skinny white lady here). I was reminded earlier this month by my endocrine guy that I really should consider going back on meds in an attempt to delay bone fractures. Ok, why not. Oh – wait, now I remember why not. Last week, I  blamed the meds for delayed crankiness and headaches. After all – I am a typical American – something going wrong has to be someone else’s fault right? Anyway…

I took that extra, evil table on Friday morning sort of according to the directions. (take 30 minutes ahead of anything else – stay up right, blah-de blah…) Well, I remembered a couple of hours after being up having coffee and shoving the really important things down my throat but figured that an attempt was good enough. And forgot about it for the rest of the day.

The muscles in my legs started cramping about 2100. Ok – apparently the stupid tablet was absorbed anyway. I took some more calcium and attempted to go on with whatever. By 2300, it was obvious that pain was in my future and not sleep.

So this is why, instead of telling you that Saturday was a complete wash – I spent early Saturday morning in my craft room drinking lots of water, popping calcium pills like candy and thinking that I should really go down to the hot tub since the heat might help my leg cramps. Those cramps were making me feel a bit like a pretzel. Not talking about large muscles here, but all those little ones around your feet and ankles…

But, before finally figuring that I could get some sleep after all and heading to bed at 0630 – I managed to

finish most of the fox’s head and start adding trees.

and stitch the weird looking top Dino for the letter J for this year’s Cloudsfactory Dino ABC’s

It would have been nice to get more than a couple hours of sleep. Apparently everyone else in the house missed the memo and I was provided coffee at 0830.

The rest of this day is kind of a blur…