It’s a risky strategy, to wait until 22.15 for inspiration, during this blog-a-thon period.<\/p>\n
Sunday night reaches before me and, frankly, I have no idea what it will bring. In the sleep department.<\/p>\n
Before things changed, Soph and I would go to bed any time between 9pm – 10.30pm (usually, if I’m being honest, 9.30pm).<\/p>\n
The time the alarm was set for could vary enormously, depending on where I was working the next day. But 5am alarms were the norm.<\/p>\n
Still are.<\/p>\n
But things have changed.<\/p>\n
These days I usually fall in to bed around 1am, or slightly before it. And face the 5am alarm with all the happy joy of a person dreading the 5am alarm after four hours sleep.<\/p>\n
Wanker!<\/p>\n
Oh, did I say that aloud? I’m sorry. I have the television on – with the sound muted, obv – and Wayne Rooney’s face just graced the screen.<\/p>\n
Twat!<\/p>\n
There it goes again. How strange. Perhaps I have developed some form of Rooney-related Tourette’s?<\/p>\n
Anyway, sleep patterns.<\/p>\n
Even after four hours, the 5am alarm still gets me up and about. I’ll admit that I move like the ‘third zombie from the left, fourth row back’ in the Thriller video.<\/p>\n
Ha, you didn’t know I was in that, did you?<\/p>\n
Well no, I’m not, obv.<\/p>\n
That’s just a metaphor for how I lumber about the house after four hours sleep.<\/p>\n
It’s risky, this being a house.<\/p>\n
Because it has stairs.<\/p>\n
That go down.<\/p>\n
Last Thursday, as with all days so far (touches wood), I lumbered downstairs without mishap.<\/p>\n
Teetered my way in to the kitchen.<\/p>\n
Did the kettle-switchy-on-thing and poured milk on my cereal – remembering to put my cereal in to a bowl first, obv.<\/p>\n
Poured the boiling water in to my mug, put everything on a tray and staggered my way back upstairs to bed.<\/p>\n
The cereal mostly got eaten.<\/p>\n
The tea did not get drunk.<\/p>\n
The tea did not get drunk because it was not tea.<\/p>\n
For it to be tea, it would have to have milk (check!), hot water (check!) and actual tea (erm…).<\/p>\n
And that’s why the cereal mostly got eaten.<\/p>\n
I had put the teabag in to my bowl of cereal, and added milk.<\/p>\n
Fortunately I have a shower after breakfast.<\/p>\n
That never fails to wake me.<\/p>\n
But it’s a little scary what I can get up to when I’m\u00a0‘third zombie from the left, fourth row back’ in the Thriller video.<\/p>\n
However, if you totalled the amount of sleep I have had during the last two nights you would get a scary 20 hours.<\/p>\n
Twenty hours sleep? In two nights? That’s just mentile. I have been visited by the Princess of Sleep, obv.<\/p>\n
Here’s my favourite version of Thriller, the 1,500 inmates of\u00a0the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, Cebu, Philippines at practice! If you will look very carefully YOU WILL NOT SEE ME BECAUSE I WAS JOKING.<\/p>\n
Thank you.<\/p>\n