The Worst Night

Ok I am living on so little sleep right now that I am not sure how I will make it through bible study this morning. Let me tell everyone the story of why I am about to fall asleep.

As my readers will know I had the carpet cleaned yesterday. Now unless you watch the weather channel you would not know that we had rain storms all day yesterday except of course when they were here to clean the carpets which was a blessing. Anyway they did a wonderful job on the carpet. They even got out the one stain from the night we moved into the house and I dropped a cherry limeade on the carpet. Well along with a great job they had to use a lot more solution than normal. I finally placed what the carpet smell that was all over the house. It was a mix of formaldehyde and old Windex window cleaner. Not a good mix. Plus the carpet was still wet. So in my office I sat with this window open. I could not get to the window in the living room to get it open because the living room was REALLY wet. When I was able to get into my bedroom I opened those windows, but discovered the rain was blowing and got our bedroom wet again. So I lived through the smell and wetness until I went to get Marie from school.

So after school we went to the mall. Ok I hate shopping with a child who now has an opinion on what she wants to wear. Almost two hours later we decided on a few outfits. As a side note most of them are being returned because when we got home and she was picking out an outfit for today she mentioned that she did not want to wear this one or that one because it was a little itchy. Well in the two hours of trying on these clothes do you not think there was a good idea to tell me any of this!!!!!!! Ok so we came home and some of the carpet was still wet. The smell was just as bad or in my opinion worse because the house had been closed up for four hours.

Following JJ's advice we were to sleep in my office with the window open. So I inflated the aerobed and put Marie to bed in here and I found a way to leap on to the couch and get that window open in the living room. I also put the air on about 60 to get some air flowing. So I laid on the couch freezing my nose off with two huge candles lit. Marie would not fall asleep so at almost 10 I went to lay with her. The smell was in my office because she had closed the window. I opened the window back up and went to fall asleep. This was when the fun started....

The cat was not happy about us being in here on the aerobed so she kept coming in and walking on me. I tried closing her out, but then she cried and scratched on the doors. Ok at about 1145 I woke up because I felt like I was laying on the floor. Well apparently our aerobed has a small hole in it. So I re inflated and went to lay in the lay-z-boy that is still in my office. That not being the comfort that I wanted and at this point the headache I was working on all day had become so bad that all I wanted to do was curl up in a little ball. So I went to lay back down and found the Marie had taken up the entire bed. I moved her over and laid back down. For the rest of the night I would fall asleep for a little while and then wake right back up when I had hit the floor. So to complain a little my back hurts, my neck hurts, I am grumpy, I still have a headache, and my aerobed has a hole somewhere or it is leaking air somewhere.

Through all this you will never guess who had a good night sleep?! You guessed right Marie.

I will close with the smell has subsided somewhat and the carpet is dry.

Love to all.