You Know You're Sleep-Deprived When...

I realized that although I originally started this blog years ago as a genuine web log of our sleep troubles, and the title still refers to our sleepless household, I haven't really posted on sleep issues. I think this overarching problem in my family has become to me what the musical Satan was to Nathan Lane's character in Jeffrey - boring, one note, blah. Rather than bore the web-surfing reader as I am bored with my sleepytime woes, I thought I would compile a list. It may not be as entertaining as You Might Be a Redneck Jedi, but it does contain recent examples from my life.

You Know You're Sleep-Deprived When...
1. You put water in the microwave to boil so that you can make Sleepytime Tea for your kids' bedtime snack. While waiting, you steep the tea in your coffee.

2. You spend fifteen minutes desperately searching for your missing wedding ring, and finally find it on your ring finger.

3.  You have a dream that you can't fall asleep.

4.  One of your boots feels uncomfortable all morning. You take it off under your desk to give your foot a break and find out that foot doesn't have a sock on. The other foot is fine.

5.  You leave work on  Friday and are already on the bus when you realize you left your cell phone sitting on your office desk.

6. Your mug of coffee gets cold while you are busy trying to get your kids to actually put their breakfast in their mouths. You put it in the microwave to reheat, then spend the next ten minutes wandering the house, looking for your coffee mug.