Lin arrived home from work while I was making the egg salad yesterday.

Lin: Eggs again?! Are you trying to give me a heart attack?

Orb: No. I need more eggshells.

Lin: You are force-feeding me eggs for the shells?!

Orb: All in the name of art.

Neither of us was hungry at the moment, so I put the egg salad in the fridge, and we watched the Shuttle launch I had recorded earlier in high definition. Woah. It was really just as good as being there, if not better. They had some awesome camera positions, so we got to see it take off from all kinds of great angles, and in hi-def, the detail was just crazy cool!

Then … I fell asleep.

At some point, I must have stumbled to the bed. I don’t remember doing so, but that’s where I woke up this morning. Yes, I went to sleep at about 7 pm, and I did not wake up until 5:30 am. That’s the longest stretch of sleep I have gotten in months, so I am feeling quite bright-eyed and bushy-tailed this morning. I also woke up quite hungry, seeing as I never did eat my egg salad sandwich. It made for a decent breakfast. :D

I also woke up exactly at 5:30 am without my alarm, which I hadn’t set. No miracle there, as it was cats that woke me up. At first it was Myu gently patting my face. Then I heard Ronin knocking things over in the bathroom. Neither of those things really woke me up though. It was Myu’s gentle patting that turned into her jamming her paws into my eyes that did it. Jamming with all the force she could muster, I might add. That woke me up pretty damn quickly!

I had planned to dismantle the oven today and adjust the flame, because I believe that may be part of the problem I have been having, but it seems to be working just fine again, so maybe that’s best left alone until it screws up again. I’d rather use all my post-good-sleep energy for something more fun anyway, like working on my art project, now that I have enough egg shells. :)

It feels weird sitting here just after 7 am and not feeling like I want to crawl back into bed for more sleep. I am rarely this awake at this hour of the day. Feels great, but it would feel better if it wasn’t so cold in the house. When I fell asleep last night, I also apparently forgot to close the kitchen window and turn on the furnace, so it was beyond chilly in the house when I crawled out of bed. Brrrr. I am ready for winter to be over now.