I missed it

Damn. Can you believe it? I missed the game last night.

I crashed early. My sleep has been messed up for days.

It got out-of-whack beginning Friday night in the camper.

It had been a long day. We visited with Tina, then drove over to my parents for lunch. My brother was home and he was actually sociable. It was good to talk to him. We took my mother to the movies to see Enchanted (I just LOVE Amy Adams). After the movies Court, Amanda and I went to my sister's to help prep dinner. I made the mashed potatoes. At 6:00 we enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner with my parents, sisters, brothers-in-law, and nephews. We watched the LSU game. It was so much fun. We also exchanged birthday presents for the year.

At 10:00 we left my sister's house and drove to Johnstown for a cookie exchange baking party, where we hooked up with our friends from Philadelphia, Jim & Sue and their kids and with Tina again.

The cookie party was so much fun... except for the TMI revelation by Tina that she doesn't ever wear under pants. THAT was a shocker. Her daughter Johnnie was mortified! We got so silly. We baked seven dozen cookies. I had coffee. [big mistake.]

At what had to be after 1:00am, we left Jim & Sue's and drove all the way back to Tina's (about 40 miles).

Court and I got over to the camper (in Tina's back yard) at about 2:00. It was 20 degrees and dropping. Everything was frozen. We had an electric blanket and a space heater, but the camper never did warm up. And I was wound from the coffee and that last drive... it's through mountains, it was windy, and there was ice (it had my adrenaline going). I couldn't sleep, and didn't until about 5:30.

Everything froze. I have trouble falling asleep as it is, and I've trained myself to sleep with talk radio (I listen to BBC World and those lullaby British voices put me right out). But my radio froze. I tried a podcast from my Zen, but it quit after 20 minutes in 20 degrees. Just stopped. I was like a crybaby without her binky.

So dumbass me got out of bed, bundled up in fleece and blankets and my cap, and turned on my laptop [we can pick up Tina's WAN in the camper]. Yep, I fried it in the cold too after about an hour of blogging.

We drove back to East Jesus Saturday, after pizza for lunch in Portage (it's the best pizza ever). Court did most of the driving. I snored. 81 was bunched up in spots... it was difficult driving. We cross over the mountains on 64 through Waynesboro to eventually find our way to 29. It's an exhausting drive and Court did it masterfully.

Amanda's friend Alexis, who moved to SC a year ago, was visiting her grandmother in East Jesus, so we invited her to spend the night. The kids went to the movies. It was another late night.

Sunday night Amanda had a bad night. I didn't get much sleep. No one got much sleep. And because she had two appointments on Monday, I decided to keep her home from school. That is an issue in and of itself right now. It was the right decision, as she was able to have good visits with her doctors.

We got home from Amanda's second appointment at 8:30 last night and I had nothing left. I tried to watch the game but I passed out the minute my head hit the pillow.


Finally, if I had any say in it, the Steelers would wear these uniforms ALL the time.