It’s raining. That’s no surprise. It started raining last night, and they said it was going to be stormy today. We need it, so I’m not complaining.

Rain or not, I have to go to the grocery store today. We need more fresh veggies and fruit, and we are about to be out of toilet paper. My plan is to leave as soon as Lin is off to work, because I haven’t slept yet and am running on just coffee.

Then I have to do the dishes, bake some bread and cookies, and come up with what to make for dinner and prep that. Somehow, I am sure I will come up with the energy to get those things done, though likely little else. I’m not so much physically wiped out, but mentally, I am beginning to feel loopy. A sleep deficit will tend to do that.

I’m pretty sure today will be the “crash day” when I finally just fall asleep draped somewhere in the house out of total exhaustion. And it’s not just me who isn’t sleeping enough either. Lin has been suffering from insomnia almost as bad as mine. There isn’t anything particularly stressful going on in our lives right now –well, not anything more than normal, anyway– so we are at a loss as to why neither of us is capable of falling asleep and staying that way for longer than an hour or two at a time. Maybe the time change and the sudden change in season.

That’s the way my day is planned. We’ll see if everything that is supposed to happen does. I’m certain I will make it to the grocery store (living without toilet paper is not possible), and I am certain I will get the dishes done (at least the ones I need for dinner tonight), but it’s entirely possible the bread and cookies may have to wait until tomorrow. Right now, both of those things feel like they will require more effort than I will be able to devote to them.

Time for more coffee and to get the non-moving man moving. I hate to bug him, because he hasn’t been asleep very long, but he does have to go to work, and I do need to get to the grocery store. I can’t get my truck out of the driveway until he’s off to work, so he needs to go soon!