I'm a little bit early with this, but, well, whatever. Anyway... when I got home this morning, Lacee was in bed with Karen. They had stayed up way too late last night, and did not want to get up. I have described Lacee's sleeping demeanor before; she lays very still for three minutes, then kicks for thirty seconds... repeat, repeat, repeat. I crawled in bed anyway, lacking the capacity to stay up any longer. Kspress went down shortly after I uploaded Sunday's entry, so I was frustrated, to boot.

Lacee and Karen finally got up around 10:30, and I had the bed to myself and I finally got some sleep. Until 15:30, at which time there was some sort of commotion in the house, probably the return of Packy and Brian and Lacee. Woke me up and I just lay there being very resentful for about a half-hour before getting back to sleep. I am never a happy camper when prematurely awakened.

I woke up for good about 16:30. For good is a misnomer; it is not good. I have not had enough sleep and I feel really grumpy. This is not my usual deameanor. (that's the second deameanor in this entry. That's a word I seldom use, I wonder what prompted it?) and again I am resentful about being grumpy. I do not like being grumpy, I'm usually happy-go-lucky, I like that much better. I'm going to work soon, and I hope to get in a better mood first.

Well, I did get in a better mood once I got to work. It has been a slower-than-average night so far, and I have a PRN (as needed) tech that is working with me, training to work third shift when there is an opening in the schedule, like me or the other guy going on vacation. It's kinda fun, working with someone else occasionally. She's an interesting person, which helps a lot. Tomorrow night the other PRN person will be training with me.

So anyway, since I have company, I have to be in a better mood than I started off being in!

I didn't see Karen today except for a little bit Sunday morning, and she told me then that she was upset about something that had happened Saturday night. So I called her about 21:30 and talked to her a while. It seems that she was upset that everyone but her and Kim got roaring drunk at the party at Kim's last night. It's kinda funny, because I've been telling her that for years... it's no fun being around drunks when you're sober. It's like everyone is just really stupid.

O'well, everyone has to learn at their own pace, in their own time...

This night is really drifting along really slowly... as in neverending. As I might have mentioned earlier, I'm really looking forward to getting to sleep this morning. My back is doing somewhat better, though, since I haven't hardly had to do any physical work tonight. I just popped a couple of Tylenol, I'm starting to get a headache. The lack of sleep is catching up with me rapidly.

The heat index when I came to work at 19:00 was 99 F. About 22:30, a beautiful thunderstorm rolled in and cooled things off quite a bit; it's tolerable outside now. The evening tech and I stood in the ambulance bay as the storm was blowing in, I always love that smell as the first wind gusts hit. It only rained for a short while, though. There is supposed to be a "Dry Front" moving through, leaving us with much less humidity for a couple of days.

It's ironic... the night when I have help, we only have about five patients. Most of the night Annette (the PRN tech) and I sat around looking at each other. I got the better end of that deal!