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My Life Thus Far
2016-09-23 06:11:52 (UTC)

A 5am Flight To Colorado

I read somewhere once that the body can't really "make up" lost sleep. Sleep isn't something the body can bank. Which is why we need to sleep every night... but I don't know if that's exactly the case. The past few nights I haven't been getting quite enough sleep. Enough, but not as much as I truly need. I slept until 11am this morning, and I didn't go to bed all that late last night. I think the body does make up for lost sleep, though the exact mechanics are unclear to me.

I wanted to get up earlier than 11am. For whatever reason I'd wanted to get the most out of today, though I had nothing planned. Dad wasn't home, Snookums didn't want to go hiking with me (what I decided I wanted to do), so I was on my own... and really, I wasn't too upset about it. As much as I love my family, I cherish my alone time and I wish I had more of it.

I stopped at Hot Shots Java to get a latte. I usually like Starbucks, but sometimes I just like walking downtown and going to a little local coffee shop. It's a break from my usual routine, I suppose.

A couple of weeks out of August, the stretch of highway headed towards Kingston was closed to through traffic because they were redesigning the drainage ditches and culverts (to be more eco-friendly and navigable for salmon headed to the sound). The same stretch of highway I normally take to get to North Kitsap Heritage Park. The back-ups on the detour were enough to keep me from heading that way until the work was done. Well, it's done now, so that's where I decided to go. I've missed it. Those trails are truly my happy place. I know them inside and out, yet they never get old.

I only did about 4 miles, because I wanted to be home by the time the kids got home from school. I made a nice dinner (spaghetti with Nate's zesty Italian meatless meat balls and garlic bread), then hung out with the family until the kids went to bed. I'm relaxing in bed now, but that's about to come to an end. I'm leaving to take dad back to the airport in a couple hours. Thank goodness I'm nocturnal, or that would suck. I work tomorrow too, but not until 2pm, so I'll sleep when I get home.

My brother Chris is getting married this weekend, and dad promised he'd be there. So, he's catching a 5am flight to Colorado. After the wedding he's driving back to San Diego to visit friends, then he's coming home. He's leaving all his stuff here, so I'm confident he's coming back. It's funny how I long to be alone, yet the idea of him leaving makes me sad. I'm a complex creature. Once he gets back he's going to start looking for a real job. He's too old to be working the fish factories of Alaska.




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