{"id":876,"date":"2010-09-21T08:41:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T13:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/2010\/09\/night-time\/"},"modified":"2010-09-21T08:41:51","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T13:41:51","slug":"night-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/2010\/09\/night-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday, 18 September 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today was Isla\u2019s baby shower.<\/p>\n

According to the invitation, though, it was really a \u201cwelcome the babies party,\u201d which must, in some way, differ slightly from a shower. The party was also for Isla\u2019s cousin Asa. He was born eight days after Isla, so he still needed to be welcomed, too.<\/p>\n

Invitees were told they didn\u2019t have to bring gifts, and some people did not. But some people did bring gifts, especially people who hadn\u2019t seen the babies before. A few awesome gifts: diapers! Cash! Gift cards! \u00a0<\/p>\n

Soon after we arrived, my father-in-law informed me that there was beer in the basement fridge. He quickly followed this up by stating that it was Lenie\u2019s. See, he usually has MGD in a can, so bottled Leinie\u2019s was a nice treat. I came with two six-packs, too.<\/p>\n

There was a bonfire in the evening and, man, kids LOVE bonfires. Owen just can\u2019t stay away from them. I think it\u2019s good that the kids had some safe entertainment in the evening. Don\u2019t worry, a few guys \u2013 with Leinie\u2019s in hand \u2013 were keeping close watch.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Sunday, 19 September 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

I seem to have four kinds of nights:<\/p>\n

1 \u2013 It takes about an hour, but I eventually fall asleep, and then I sleep pretty decently.<\/p>\n

2 \u2013 I\u2019m so tired\/drunk that I fall asleep right away, but then I wake up 3 or 4 hours later and find it impossible to fall asleep<\/p>\n

3 \u2013 I\u2019m worried\/nervous about something, so I go in and out of light sleep, getting about 4 hours of sleep over the 8 hour night<\/p>\n

4 \u2013 I just never fall asleep<\/p>\n

Last night was night #2. I feel asleep so quickly that I don\u2019t even recall spending any amount of time in bed conscious. Isla was laying on my chest and, about two hours later, Jennifer woke me up and said Isla was probably in a deep enough sleep by now and I could set her in her little bed-within-a-bed. So I did, and then I again immediately fell asleep. But then I woke up two hours after that \u2013 I was hot, my heart was pounding, and I was inexplicably worried about some unknown thing. I got up and used the bathroom, poured myself some water, sat down in the living room and worked on a video for a while. 45 minutes after waking up, I laid back down in bed.<\/p>\n

Less than ten minutes went by before I heard crying. I almost couldn\u2019t believe it \u2013 who was crying at a time like this? I sat up and listened, then I heard the crying again; it was Owen. Jennifer was so deep asleep that she wasn\u2019t even stirring, so I got up and went into Owen\u2019s room. I asked him what the problem was, and he said he\u2019d been lying there for a long time and couldn\u2019t get to sleep. So I laid down in bed with him. I was cold, so I got right under the blankets.<\/p>\n

After about twenty minutes, I got up and left the room. This morning, Owen told me that he woke back up from the sound of me leaving his room, but that he fell back to sleep soon after.<\/p>\n

Poor kid, he has the same sleep problems that I do.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Monday, 20 September 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tonight, I decided to go to sleep early. I offered to bring Isla with me to bed, so that Jennifer could spend some quality time with her best friend (her laptop). I carried Isla into the bedroom very gently. When I got into the bedroom, I noticed my pillow was in an odd place. (I\u2019m not sure who moves my pillow during the course of the day, but it looks like the handiwork of a five year old.) Ever so carefully, I moved the pillow back into place with my deft toe skills. Then I real slowly sat down in bed, brought my legs up, turned, and laid down. Isla didn\u2019t stir at all; she stayed right on my chest breathing deeply. I reached up to my nightstand, which is an awkward task when lying on one\u2019s back, and grabbed my lip balm. Even while balancing a baby on my chest, I still managed to apply the lip balm. I then drew up the blanket and set it just right on both of us. A few moments later, I remembered that I hadn\u2019t turned on my alarm clock, so I again reached up to the clock and, using thumb and index finger, turned on the clock. While doing that, one of my other fingers accidentally hit that stupid button that turns on the radio for 59 minutes. Suddenly the room was filled with loud, blaring music and I quickly tried to turn it off, but there\u2019s no off button for that function. I tried to lower the volume, but instead I just tuned the radio to a bunch of noisy static. Of course, Isla woke up and she was up for most of the next hour.<\/p>\n

I absolutely, positively, completely hate combination products. I don\u2019t want a camera on my phone, a scanner in my printer, or a clock on my microwave. At some point during my lifetime, manufacturers came up with the lousy idea of shoving as many features into a product as possible. The outcome nearly always sucks. If I want to take a picture, I\u2019ll use a quality camera. If I want to scan something into my computer, I\u2019ll use a good scanner. And when I purchase an alarm clock, that\u2019s all I want it to do: track the time until I need to wake up, then make a noise.<\/p>\n

That \u201c59 minutes of music if you push this\u201d button has been on nearly every alarm clock I\u2019ve ever owned and, like car alarms, it\u2019s never served any purpose. It\u2019s just something that annoys me every once in a while and that I continually wish didn\u2019t exist. And here\u2019s the real kicker: I only ever accidentally push that button when I\u2019m trying to be quiet. Because, see, if Jennifer and I are going to bed at the same time, or if I\u2019m going to bed by myself, then I can have the light on and I can be as loud as I want in getting ready for bed. But when I try to quietly sneak into bed after Jennifer\u2019s gone to sleep, or when I\u2019m holding a slumbering baby, then \u2013 only then \u2013 I can not see what I\u2019m doing\u2026and I hit that stupid button.<\/p>\n

Soon, possibly tomorrow evening, I\u2019m gonna try to deactivate that option on my alarm clock. I\u2019ll let you know how it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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