Source of Insomnia
Yesterday I woke up around 10. This is a reasonable time for me considering my sleep schedule has been borked since Saturday when we lost power. I woke up and The Boy says, “I wasn’t going to cook anything for a while.” Whatever. I’m starving and I tell him that I’m making something. “What I really want is, um, pancakes and for some reason I really want chips and dip.”
What the hell kind of combination is that anyway! It’s probably mostly to do with the fact I’ve been eating nothing but junk since we’ve been stuck at home. Okay, I take that back. Not all junk. Our neighbor made a good old English breakfast for us Saturday morning and on Mon-ues-dnesday (tell me you kept track of the days, imeanreally) gave me a quarter pound of shrimp they couldn’t eat.
Skip to last night. I kept smelling stale cigarette smoke. Like a garment had been exposed, forgotten, and not washed. I couldn’t figure out where this was coming from. I sniffed *everything*, yes even the cat. And though she does stink, she is not the culprit.
Before bed I had a snack of a row of brownie (yeah, go me, with the junk food again) and milk. As in cow’s milk. I generally don’t drink cow’s milk ’cause I’m lactose intolerant. I promise not to get into that here. I lurve me some vanilla soy, but soy kind of weirds me out as a milk substitute, so it’s not like I put it on cereal.
So there I am, with a row of ooey gooey(TM) brownie cut off and as I go into the fridge to retrieve that milk I see a bag of shredded cheddar cheese and think (thankfully to myself, ’cause The Boy would probably flip out), “Wow, I sure would love me a handful of that cheese to go with my brownie!” WTH
I’m sure there is some part of my brain trying to figure out the salty/sweet snacking thing. But, pancakes with chips and dip and then brownies topped with cheddar cheese? Add in the stale smoke I still smell and can’t find plus the nausea smoke gives me. Yeah I peed on a stick this morning.
Part of me is relieved; I want kids, but now is not great timing. But now I’m left with where these weird cravings could be coming from and where the hell the smoke smell is coming from!
