So it's been a long weekend. Band practice started at 9:30 Thursday night, so I caught a nap beforehand. We worked on Bad Romance until around 1:30, and by 3 I finally collapsed in bed. I got up about four and a half hours later and went to work. I grabbed two more hours of sleep that evening, before people started arriving for poker about 7:00. Poker went on until 4. I got about five hours of sleep before I got up to run some errands, ahead of the ballgame and the video shoot. Arranging for a sitter for the shoot I got a promise to go to church with my parents called in. I figured that might make for an interesting Sunday morning. Of course the video shoot happened (and I'm blogging now to take up time til I hit refresh again to see if it's up). Some time between the first run through and the actual shoot I realized I was either getting a sinus infection or I'm allergic to the fog machine. By the time we got two or three more songs in the can I was feeling like death. Tina was having a great time, so I hung out in the living room. We finally left the after-party after dawn. I called for a wake-up call two and a half hours later, and scrambled to get ready for church when it came. My voice was so froggy that singing the bass part to Amazing Grace was no problem at all. The other songs were a loss. The sinus infection, or the lack of sleep, or screaming the lyrics to Bad Romance had taken everything from E up to B in my middle octave, which also happens to be where I usually speak, so there's a good chance the church crowd knew perfectly well I'd been out all night. It might not have helped that I decided my shave at 6:30 the night before was still current enough. After church I couldn't sleep for a few hours, but finally crashed about four. Two and a half hours later it was Superbowl time. Apparently not everyone else was napping as efficiently as I'd been, so everyone was on the wagon or even falling asleep. My energy was still up, so after the game I had a few drinks and played online until about 3:00. I got up at 7:15 to take the kids to school and go to work. About 4:45 a curtain of inexplicable sadness came over me that I just couldn't shake. If that's what depression is like, then I don't want any part of it. After lying around feeling sorry for myself amd not knowing why for a couple hours, I decided I needed a good meal and a long sleep. I cooked supper, and then headed for bed. Three hours later my mother called to iron out details if there was no school, and since then I remembered the video was supposed to post tonight, and now I can't sleep again. At least I feel happier. I'm sure there'll be no school and Tina's on a delay, so I can sleep til after 8 and still make it to work on time, so maybe all is not lost. Catch you on the flip-side.
