Sleep of the Dead

Admittedly, I was tired.  Seriously, I came home and felt like I could sleep for a year.  Was in bed by 9am and slept…till 6pm.  I didn’t hear the kids get up, didn’t hear the noise the dogs made, had the window open and didn’t hear the usually loud neighbors.  Slept like the dead. 

The problem, of course, is that now my entire Saturday is gone and I only have one day left of my weekend.  Yesterday I also slept like the dead for nine hours so one would have thought I wouldn’t need that much today but I must have if I slept that soundly.  Maybe my iron level has dropped again - I always sleep more when it is lower then just below normal.  Don’t think it is ever what the doctor’s consider “normal”…so guess below normal is normal for me. 

From the looks of it outside, it has been raining for awhile now.  Maybe that contributed to sleeping better as it would have kept noisy people indoors…

Last night was hell.  We had bar sweeps going on - that is where a team hits every bar in town several times to hand out tickets to underaged bar drinkers - so that was an added burden to an already busy Friday night.  Had three officers on duty doing traffic stops and nine guards on duty checking each of the buildings.  We had a stolen vehicle, several fights, one foot pursuit, vehicle break-ins and I lost count of the public intox pickups.  We didn’t even get a break until after 4 am cuz it was too busy. 

Even though I felt overwhelmed a few times and it was stressful, I enjoyed being that busy.  My hope is that, someday soon, I can handle all of that without feeling like I’m screwing it all up by being too slow.  I really have a new found respect for the dispatchers in Sarasota who handle five times as many people and situations - no wonder some of them got loud with frustration at times.

Guess I’ll go take Baxter out for a short ride.  He has been kind of down the past couple of days because I’ve been too busy and too tired to take him out to play.  I’d take him for a walk but it is still raining out and I don’t feel like getting wet.

Was looking for apartments today and was very disappointed at the lack of acceptable units in my price range.  Will have to keep looking but hope something comes up soon as I want to put a deposit down so I can move in the first of June.  {sigh}